Tennis
Roland-Garros: Swiatek confirms Osaka clash in second round
Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, beat French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean 6-1, 6-2 to move into the second round of Roland-Garros at Roland-Garros in Paris on Monday afternoon.
Swiatek, ranked No 1, will play Japanese Naomi Osaka next in a much-anticipated meeting.
Swiatek has now won 20 of her 21 first-round main draw appearances at a Grand Slam.
And with this particular win, she becomes the first woman to win 15 consecutive matches at the French Open since Justine Henin, who won 24 in a row between 2005 and 2010.
Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):
- Irene Burillo Escorihuela vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Sloane Stephens
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Sara Errani vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Erika Andreeva vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Madison Keys vs. Renata Zarazua
- Katie Boulter vs. Paula Badosa
- Zeynep Sonmez vs. Emma Navarro
- Magdalena Frech vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Lucija Ciric Bagaric vs. Peyton Stearns
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Emina Bektas
- Yue Yuan vs. Mayar Sherif
- Arantxa Rus vs. Angelique Kerber
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Alize Cornet
- Greet Minnen vs. Elena Rybakina
- Petra Martic vs. Kristina Mladenovic
- Elise Mertens vs. Maria Lourdes Carle
- Anna Blinkova vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Lin Zhu vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Ana Bogdan
- Julia Riera vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Harriet Dart vs. Linda Noskova
- Bernarda Pera vs. Nao Hibino
- Fiona Ferro vs. Diane Parry
- Elina Svitolina vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Yulia Starodubtseva vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Maria Sakkari vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Clara Burel
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Panna Udvardy vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Camila Osorio
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Jessika Ponchet
- Coco Gauff vs. Julia Avdeeva
- Danielle Collins vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Ons Jabeur (8) beat Sachia Vickery (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- Jasmine Paolini (12) beat Daria Saville: 6-3, 6-4
- Hailey Baptiste (LL) beat Kayla Day: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (17) beat Magda Linette: 6-1, 6-1
- Marketa Vondrousova (5) beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-1, 6-3
- Anastasia Potapova beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-3
- Katie Volynets (Q) beat Aleksandra Krunic: 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Olga Danilovic (Q) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-1, 6-2
- Xinyu Wang beat Jule Niemeier (Q): 0-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Viktorija Golubic beat Barbora Krejcikova (24): 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Tamara Zidansek (Q) beat Alison Van Uytvanck: 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
- Clara Tauson beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-3
- Chloe Paquet (WC) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-3, 6-1
- Xiyu Wang beat Zhuoxuan Bai: 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-3
- Amanda Anisimova beat Rebecca Sramkova (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-4
- Caroline Garcia (21) beat Eva Lys (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Katerina Siniakova (32) beat Dalma Galfi (LL): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Sofia Kenin beat Laura Siegemund: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-4, 7-5
- Jana Fett (LL) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-2, 3-6, 7-5
- Marta Kostyuk (18) beat Laura Pigossi (Q): 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4
- Naomi Osaka beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
- Dayana Yastremska (30) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Yafan Wang beat Maria Timofeeva: 6-3, 6-3
- Marie Bouzkova beat Veronika Kudermetova (29): 6-2, 6-4
- Donna Vekic beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-5 ret.
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