Sabalenka dishes out a bagel to ease into second round of Roland-Garros
Aryna Sabalenka defeated Kamilla Rakhimova 6-1, 6-0 on Sunday and will face the winner of the match between Lucrezia Stefanini and Jil Teichmann next
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Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the top seed, moved into the second round of Roland-Garros by defeating Russian Kamilla Rakhimova 6-1, 6-0 at Roland-Garros in Paris on Sunday.
Sabalenka needed only an hour to score the winning point and advance as she chases her first French Open glory.
She finished the match with five aces, 30 winners and five break-point conversions, which helped her dish out a breadstick and a bagel. In the process, she became the first top-seed to win a Roland Garros opener without conceding more than one game since Serena Williams did it in 2013.
1 – Aryna Sabalenka is the top-seeded player with the fewest games conceded at her opening match in Roland Garros (one) since Serena Williams in 2013 (also one, vs Anna Tatishvili). Take-off.#RolandGarros | @rolandgarros @WTA pic.twitter.com/jUbj9D4CFQ
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) May 25, 2025
Sabalenka, ranked No 1, will play the winner of the match between Italian qualifier Lucrezia Stefanini and Swiss Jil Teichmann next.
Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 56.352.000):
- Olivia Gadecki vs. Coco Gauff
- Chloe Paquet vs. Tereza Valentova
- Sonay Kartal vs. Erika Andreeva
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Nao Hibino vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Hailey Baptiste
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Sofia Kenin
- Yanina Wickmayer vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Anca Todoni vs. Jessica Pegula
- Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Ann Li
- Oksana Selekhmeteva vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Ons Jabeur
- Lois Boisson vs. Elise Mertens
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Maria Sakkari
- Karolina Muchova vs. Alycia Parks
- Solana Sierra vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Katie Volynets vs. Joanna Garland
- Suzan Lamens vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Iga Swiatek
- Emma Raducanu vs. Xinyu Wang
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Polina Kudermetova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Greet Minnen
- Elena Rybakina vs. Julia Riera
- Caroline Garcia vs. Bernarda Pera
- Tamara Korpatsch vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Maya Joint
- Mayar Sherif vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Arantxa Rus vs. Camila Osorio
- Clara Tauson vs. Magda Linette
- Danielle Collins vs. Jodie Burrage
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Taylor Townsend vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Tatjana Maria
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Emma Navarro
- Diane Parry vs. Robin Montgomery
- Carole Monnet vs. Katie Boulter
- Madison Keys vs. Daria Saville
- Naomi Osaka vs. Paula Badosa
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. McCartney Kessler
- Leolia Jeanjean vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Sara Bejlek
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Linda Noskova
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Yue Yuan
- Olga Danilovic vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Iva Jovic vs. Renata Zarazua
- Nina Stojanovic vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Donna Vekic vs. Anna Blinkova
- Leyre Romero Gormaz vs. Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Diana Shnaider vs. Anastasiia Sobolieva
- Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Jil Teichmann
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Destanee Aiava
- Alexandra Eala vs. Emiliana Arango
- Laura Siegemund vs. Anna Bondar
- Eva Lys beat Peyton Stearns (28): 6-0, 6-3
- Viktorija Golubic beat Petra Kvitova: 3-6, 6-0, 6-4
- Elina Svitolina (13) beat Zeynep Sonmez: 6-1, 6-1
- Victoria Mboko (Q) beat Lulu Sun: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
