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Kenin says she’s very emotional and pays tribute to Serena Williams and the crowd, despite many of them booing her during the game for beating their hero. She starts to cry, which is nice, but she really just wants to go and celebrate with her coach and family.
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Sofia Kenin beats Serena Williams (6-2, 7-5)
It’s a very promising start for Kenin as a wicked serve is returned to the net but she then slaps a shot across court and wide despite looking in charge of the point. Kenin then hits one long, much to her chagrin. Kenin nails the line on a serve to level at 30:30. A woeful backhand goes very long from Kenin. She looks like she’s panicking a little now. Williams then mishits a forehand wide to take it to deuce. There is plenty of pressure on the court at the moment. Kenin gets the advantage after an outstretched Williams only just gets the serve over the net, allowing Kenin to whack a winner into space. Match point: Kenin sends one into the net when she has the chance to win it! Kenin against nails the line with the serve, setting up her chance to win, which she gleefully takes. Match Point II: A long back backhand from Williams gives Kenin the win!!!!
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An easy chance to win the opening point for Williams results it her smashing in long when she has plenty of court to play with. Kenin just about returns a great serve and then Williams sends a backhand wide. Williams pushes Kenin around, forcing to snatch at a forehand which flies wide. Kenin gets two break points after a poor backhand goes long again, as Williams overplays. A big serve keeps Williams in it. Kenin breaks with a cracking forehand which passes Williams, who can only clap the shot in response. Kenin to serve for the win. Kenin leads 2-6, 5-6.
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Williams returns a very slow serve into the net for no reason whatsoever. The sends one very long, gifting Kenin the lead. Kenin is in charge as Williams sends another too far and then Kenin sends a backhand beyond Williams to hold to love. Kenin leads 2-6, 5-5.
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Williams takes control of her service game, quickly moving 30:0 up, thanks to a cracking serve and then a tame backhand into the net from Kenin. The 20-year-old Kenin makes up with a cutting backhand next time around to bring her back into it. Williams then double faults, a rare sight, to make it level. Her next first serve tamely hits the net but her second finds the spot and she goes on to move Kenin around the court, allowing her to whack a winner into space. Serena holds. Score is 2-6, 5-4.
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At 30:30 Williams whacks one a little long to give Kenin the advantage. Kenin holds her nerve with a great serve and eventually Williams loops one over the baseline to square the second set score at 4-4. Kenin leads 6-2, 4-4.
And with that, I’ll hand over to Will Unwin to take you through to the end of this one.
Woof. Serena holds to 15, battering a serve down the middle to nudge ahead in the second set. She’s looked much better in this set and that’s just rewards. 6-2, 3-4 in the second.
Kenin looked like she was heading for a relatively straightforward hold, but Williams pegs her back with gusto, snagging herself four break points...and she takes the fourth! A Kenin cross-court backhand hammers the top of the net and sails out. 6-2, 3-3. Game v much on.
Eeesh. Serena holds, sealing the game with a brilliant inside-out forehand, but what preceded it was more representative of the match as a whole, with as much time as she liked to nail a half-court forehand with Kenin nowhere, but she seemed to slip slightly and belted it straight into the net, before looking at the clay as if it had betrayed her in the most cruel fashion. 6-2, 3-2 Kenin with that break in the second set.
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If you were to replace the players with two featureless, blank robots, you’d guess the one flaying forehands all over the show and controlling rallies despite game resistance was Serena. Not so. Kenin holds to make it 6-2, 3-1. A big part of that is down to the number of unforced errors from Serena - the tally is 14-3 at the moment.
Some more big roaring from Serena, plus Kenin shrewdly getting the eff out of the way with both players at the net and her opponent winding up for a boomer, and it’s 6-2, 2-1. And for those who can’t be bothered to read any lower: that’s to Kenin...
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Serena lets out something close to a roar with two rocket-powered shots in the second game of the second set, but that’s as far as her resistance goes in that one as Kenin steams back in with some fizzers of her own. 6-2, 2-0....
Wowsers. Kenin breaks to love in the first game of the second set. Serena in some bother here.
Kenin wins the first set 6-2
Serena screams in anguish and looks accusingly at the clay after netting to set up set point. Kenin thinks she has it all tied up after a Serena return goes long, but it turns out her serve was wide! But after Serena gets a break point, some belting cross-courts bring Kenin another break point, which is converted when Serena nets a return. Kenin bellows in delight and strides back to her chair. Game on.
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One of Kenin’s strategies looks like will be to pull Serena around the court, which she does with another of those drop-shots...and then bags a double break with a brilliant cross-court forehand! 5-2 in the first set, and she’s about to serve for it.
Kenin is playing some seriously impressive forehands. Serena has a few shots herself, setting up a break point with a fine overhead. But, Kenin manages to hold after Serena sticks a forehand of her own long. Are we on for an upset here? Kenin isn’t seeded although she is ranked 35 in the world, so clearly no chump, but still. Meanwhile Khachanov indeed sealed that victory, beating Klizan 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 to book his next round game against Del Potro.
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Serena pulls a couple of big serves out of the bag to save a couple of break points...but she can’t save them all as Kenin sticks a wonderful backhand dropshot over the net, and gets the first break of the match. 3-2 to her in the first.
Juan Martin Del Potro beats Jordan Thompson 6-4, 6-4, 6-0
The burly Argentinean sends down a booming ace to wrap up what turned out to be a straightforward victory. He’ll now play the winner of Karen Khachanov and Martin Klizan, which is currently in play but the former is 6-1, 6-4, 5-2 ahead, so the end there is nigh.
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Dominic Thiem beats Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5
The final set was slightly more of a struggle than it initially looked like it might be, but Thiem bags his win with a big overhead and salutes the crowd, looking absolutely delighted with himself, and rightly so. It’s Monfils next for the Austrian.
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Serena and Kenin are playing with three-quarters of the court in shade and the remaining 25% in bright sunshine, which is aesthetically vexing. Still, it doesn’t seem to have bothered either player too much, as they both hold without too many problems in their respective first service games. 1-1.
Break on Lenglen! Thiem is now serving for the match after taking a 6-5 lead - already up 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 - in the fourth set.
Del Potro is blazing away on Simonne-Mathieu - he’s broken twice in the third and is serving to go 4-0 up. He’s 6-4, 6-4 ahead.
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Serena and Sofia Kenin are knocking up on Philippe-Chatrier now. Worth remembering that this is in the Osaka half of the draw, meaning the whole thing has opened up just a little bit more. The winners of this one will face the winners of Ashleigh Barty and Andrea Petkovic, who’ll play on Suzanne-Lenglen when Thiem vs Cuevas has finished. Seapking of which, Thiem is currently serving to stay in the fourth set at 4-5.
Martin Del Potro successfully served for that second set a while back, now ahead 6-4, 6-4 over Jordan Thompson. Meanwhile Cuevas has just won a fairly epic sixth game of the fourth set against Thiem, breaking back to level things up. It’s current 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 3-3 in Thiem’s favour.
Evening all. My first duty is to tell you that Gael Monfils has sealed his victory over Hoang, celebrating with a primal scream in the middle of the court. He wrapped up a 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 victory with a booming forehand and saunters through to the next round, where he’ll play the winner of the Thiem vs Cuevas. Serena is next up on Philippe-Chatrier.
And that’s all from me. Over to my esteemed colleague Nick Miller to guide you through the evening’s events.
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Thiem wastes no time in breaking in what could very well be the final set, before holding his service game with ease. On Court Simonne-Mathieu, Del Portro readies himself to serve for the second set.
Hoang is making a fight of the third set against Monfils, and leads 3-2 with a break apiece. He hits an ace before both slope to the sidelines, bathed in sweat.
Serving for the third set, Thiem allows some untidiness into his play – sending a forehand badly long – before rolling up his sleeves and sealing the set with a pair of second serves that prove too much for Cuesta. The Austrian leads 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
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Thiem has responded to that wobbly second set in the competitor’s time-honoured fashion: by coming out swinging. He’s blasted his way to a 4-1 third-set lead, not an iota of energy wasted.
Khachanov steamrollers through his first set against Klizan, 6-1 in 23 minutes. And Monfils has taken the second set against Hoang with only slightly less ease, 6-2.
Juan Martin Del Potro takes the first set, 6-4, against a battling Jordan Thompson. Monfils serves to go two sets up against Hoang.
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Something of a surprise on Court Suzanne-Lenglen as Cuevas steams through his own service game before springing a break on Thiem to take the second set off the Austrian. He’s hardly been terrible, but he’ll need to step it up here.
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The men’s No 10 seed, Karen Khachanov, has kicked off his match against Martin Klizan, with each having held on to their first service game. Del Potro is a break up on Thompson, who he leads 5-4, and is serving for the first set.
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And the bleep test of a match between Struff and Coric has finally reached an end, Struff clinching an 11-9 final-set win
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Thiem eases through the gears to force an up-for-it Cuevas into a series of superlative rallies. The Uruguayan does superbly on each count but just doesn’t have quite enough to match the Austrian. 4-4.
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Cuevas leaps on a double fault by Thiem – the match’s first – to break his opponent and take a 4-2 lead in the second. This mightn’t be quite as easy for the No 4 seed as it first seemed.
Struff and Coric are edging towards double figures in the fifth set. The Croatian has just made it 9-9
In fact, she doesn’t even need her service game in the end. Swiatek breaks Puig to end the match – which she began with a 0-6 first-set battering – and advance to the fourth round of a grand slam. What were you doing at 18?
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And Monfils has taken the first set against his countryman Hoang, 5-3. Elsewhere, Juan Martin del Portro has begun his match with Australia’s Jordan Thompson, and gobbled up the first two games. Oh, and Iga Świątek – who turned 18 yesterday – will shortly be serving for the match against Monica Puig.
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Struff v Coric stretches on into its fifth hour. The German is 8-7 up in the final set as his opponent serves.
Here’s our report on Naomi Osaka’s bizarre collapse:
At the fifth time of asking, Thiem takes his set point. He does the job with a tidy ace, and looks to be finding his rhythm here.
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Very little between Hoang and Monfils so far, the latter leading 3-2 in the first set with neither player having broken. Coric is serving for the match against Struff, but it’s the German who has taken the first two points of the game.
Thiem breaks back, and follows it up with the first showcase of his power. A series of bludgeoned forehands is too much for a retreating Cuevas who suddenly finds himself 4-2 down.
Keys beats Blinkova 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-4
The Russian wins the first point but looks spent, and Keys finishes the game with an elegant chipped drop-shot. She allows herself a businesslike pump of the fist before embracing her opponent and retiring to the sideline to pack up her gear.
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Three match points for Madison Keys, 40-0 up on Blinkova’s service game.
Coric and Struff look destined to be separated by the finest of margins. There’s been barely anything between them for a whie now, and they remain neck and neck in the final set, 4-4.
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Lively start: Cuevas snaffles up Thiem’s first service game to go 2-0 early doors.
Next up on Court Philippe Chatrier is a local derby between Antoine Hoang and Gaël Monfils, while also starting shortly is Dominic Thiem’s showdown with Pablo Cuevas, the 47th-ranked Uruguayan who saw off Kyle Edmund in the second round.
Djokovic beats Caruso 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
No surprises there. Djokovic becomes the day’s first big name to get through a match without wobbling hideously along the way. He made even lighter work of the final set than the first two, and while it’s early days, that win looks faintly ominous.
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Siniakova beats Osaka 6-4, 6-2
An unfathomably shoddy performance from the world No 1, who has hit her last ball in this tournament. Siniakova earned her win with vim, vigour and wit, and is suitably gleeful. But the real story is Osaka’s baffling collapse. astonishingly, that means three of the top four women’s seeds have been knocked out – before the fourth round!
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Two match points for Siniakova. Thirty-seven unforced errors for Osaka.
Djokovic breaks in the third to go 4-2 up. Victory draws to within touching distance for him.
Siniakova accepts – 5-2 – and will serve for the match.
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Yet another feeble shot into the net from Osaka, which has been her signature move this afternoon. Then she thrashes one long to offer a double break point to Siniakova.
Blinkova claws herself back from the brink, breaking Keys, holding her own serve and then taking the second-set tie-break. One set each.
Osaka is doing her best to continue the day’s theme of deeply unconvincing displays from heavyweights. Unforced errors galore from her this afternoon, and she goes a break down in the second set. It’s getting worrying for her.
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Madison Keys has broken Blinkova in the second set, which she now leads 6-5, and will serve for the match.
A service game apiece for Osaka and a shrieking Siniakova makes it 1-1 in the second. Struff and Coric, meanwhile, look to be edging towards a fourth-set tie-break, the latter having just gone 6-5 up.
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Caruso is increasingly wearing a look of pained exhaustion in his match against Djokovic. Not a bead of sweat on him, the Serb swats a backhand out of his opponent’s reach to take the second set by the same margin as the first: 6-3.
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Siniakova comes through a lengthy service game to take the first, 44-minute set against Osaka. Didn’t see that one coming.
Meanwhile the No 14 seed, Madison Keys, is a set up against Anna Blinkova.
No 1 seed Naomi Osaka is being put firmly through her paces by Katerina Siniakova, who has just gone 5-4 up in the opening set with the match’s first break.
Stan Wawrinka progresses! He had to do it the hard way, beating Grigor Dimitrov in three straight tie-breaks to win 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) and 7-6 (8). Djokovic has broken in the second, while Osaka and Siniakova are locked at four games all in the first.
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No 9 seed and certified dark horse Fabio Fognini is into the last 16, beating Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6 (5), 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Naomi Osaka will be next on Suzanne-Lenglen, taking on Czech player Katerina Siniakova.
Zverev beats Lajovic 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 1-6, 6-2
A relatively straightforward final set for the No 5 seed after he lurched into serious trouble by losing the third and fourth. He finishes Lajovic off with a no-nonsense service game and advances to the fourth round – but that’s the day’s second unconvincing win from a men’s heavyweight.
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Djokovic breaks Caruso to go 3-1 up early on.
Lajovic gives up his service game cheaply and now Zverev will serve for the match. Struff levels things up against Coric, taking the second set.
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Zverev inches towards victory, 4-2 up now in the fifth and playing with something resembling confidence.
Having taken the first set, Coric is 5-1 down in the second against Struff. Thirty places separate the two in the ATP rankings.
Djokovic v Caruso is under way. Both men take their opening service games.
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A break each in set five for Zverev and Lajovic takes it to 2-2. Both are playing with wild inconsistency.
Stan Wawrinka has resumed his match with Grigor Dimitrov. He’s two sets up, 1-1 in the third.
And Borna Coric leads Jan-Lennard Struff having taken the first set 6-4. Djokovic limbers up on centre court.
Bautista-Agut has taken the third set against Fognini to claw it back to 2-1.
But the early signs are good. Zverev starts the fifth set by snatching Lajovic’s service games off him, and follows that up with a glorious slice that evades his opponent to claim the second game. 2-0.
And Zverev loses his service game, taking only one point (!) to drop the fourth set. He’s in danger of falling horribly apart here, the No 5 seed. If he doesn’t turn it around in this vital final set his tournament is over.
Next up on Court Philippe Chatrier, after a shattered Tsitsipas is done fielding his interviewer’s questions, will be the men’s No 1 seed, Novak Djokovic, against the Italian Salvatore Caruso. As for Zverev, well, he’s in a bit of trouble, 5-1 down now against Lajovic in the fourth set, and all after such a good start.
Tsitsipas beats Krajinovic 7-5, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6
The Serb finally accedes, returning a Tsitsipas serve way beyond the baseline to confirm the No 6 seed’s win. But it was an unconvincing one – 3 hours 34 minutes in all – and one in which the interruption told hugely. He’ll need to up his game hugely if he’s to go deep into this tournament.
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Match point Tsitsipas, who is 7-6 up in the tie-break …
Zverev goes 2-1 down in the fourth set due to a sloppy error and hurls his racket to the ground in self-disgust. Lajovic holds his serve in unflappable style for 3-1
The second point of the tie-break delivers a great rally, ending when Krajinovic can’t quite extend an arm far enough to lift the ball over the net from close range. 2-0 Tsitsipas.
No mistake from the Serb. Another tie-break.
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Tsitsipas holds his serve emphatically, which means he’s 6-5 up in the fourth and Krajinovic is now serving to stay in the match.
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…and the next three. 5-5. In the meantime, has hit his stride against Zverev and snatched the third set, 6-4. Both these matches may go to the wire.
Tsitsipas holds his serve, which leaves the fourth set there for Krajinovic to take with his upcoming service game. That would mark a huge U-turn to this match, which the Greek was breezing through when play was halted last night. But Tsitsipas takes the game’s first point, 15-0.
Fognini takes the second set, 6-4, against Bautista-Agut. He’s two to the good against the Spaniard.
Tsitsipas is wobbling alarmingly. He hands his service game to Krajinovic with two straight double faults. The Serb leads 4-3 in the fourth set, and will now serve.
Zverev takes the next service game nervelessly and retires to the sideline to soak up the shade.
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Lajovic has Zverev on the back foot in the third set. He’s 3-1 up as a frazzled-looking Zverev serves to get himself back in it.
Krajinovic follows up his good start to the day with a shoddy service round that Tsitsipas takes with two break points to spare. 1-1 in the second.
In the women’s doubles, Stosur and Zhang have beaten Collins and Santamaria 6-4, 6-4, while Mertens and Sabalenka have seen off Kalashnikova and Peterson 6-4, 6-3.
Some supreme tennis from Krajinovic in the tie-break sees him take the third set – that’s 2-1 Tsitsipas. Zverev, meanwhile, throws away two set points on the advantage, but wins the third, to take the second set. He’s 6-4, 6-2 up.
Krajinovic lashes a laser-guided shot down the line to take the tie-break to 5-4 in his favour.
Krajinovic find a bit of rhythm to take the third set to a tie-break.
Tsitsipas will be out soon to resume his match against Krajinovic, which he leads 7-5, 6-3, with the third set locked at 5-5. Next door, the German McConaughey-alike Alexander Zverev looks to be hitting his stride after a wobbly first set and now leads 4-1 in the second. L-I-V-I-N.
In the doubles, Gabriela Dabrowski and Yi-Fan Xu have won in straight sets – 6-1, 6-1 – against Xin-Yun Han and Yafan Wang.
And Forgini has taken the first set against Bautista-Agut, 7-6 on a tie-break.
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On Court Simonne-Mathieu, Zverev has battled back against Lajovic to take the first set 6-4.
Simona Halep beats Lesia Tsurenko 6-2, 6-1
But she breaks again, ruthlessly, and takes her opponent’s service game with a drop-shot from the net. That was immensely impressive from the Romanian, dropping just three games in a match that lasted a fleeting 53 minutes.
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Bizarre. Halep fails to win a single point in a game that featured two unforced errors from her. 5-1
Halep slams back a decent serve with a a dead-eyed forehand down the line. Unreturnable. A wearied Tsurenko mops her brow – Halep will now serve for the match.
Halep powers through a flawless service game to go 4-0 up in the second. Relentless stuff – could this be done and dusted before the hour mark…?
And Fabio Fognini is a break up on Roberto Bautista Agut, who he leads 4-3 in another tight first set.
Zverev breaks back against Lajovic to level up a knife-edge first set at 4-4.
Tsurenko shows some glimpses of what she can do, pinning Halep to the baseline with a blitz of immensely powerful forehands. But then a bad miss and a some immaculate striking from her re-energised opponent mean another service game dropped. 3-0 Halep in the second.
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Halep breaks straight away in the second set, and has barely put a foot wrong so far. 1-0, and 30-0 up in her service game.
In the women’s doubles, Gabriela Dabrowski and Yi-Fan Xu have steamed into one-set lead – taking it 6-1 – over Xin-Yun Han and Yafan Wang.
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A wild shot from Tsurenko flies long to leave three set points for Halep. The Ukrainian claws it back to 40-30, but is wrongfooted by a smart forehand and that’s the first set to Halep.
In the men’s singles, Lajovic has broken Zerev, who has just come back from three break points to drag it back to 3-2. He’s being worked hard by Lajovic. Meanwhile, Halep is a game away from an breezy first set at 5-2.
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Halep breaks again – first wide again from Tsurenko then long, both careless – and that’s 4-1 after 15 minutes. Looks like we’ll be seeing Tsitsipas soon.
Tsurenko’s strong start has collapsed into a litany of cheap errors. She sends the ball wide for to make it 3-1 Halep, who isn’t giving an inch.
Tsurenko meekly surrenders the third game – 2-1 Halep. Over on Court Simonne-Mathieu, it’s a game apiece for Lajovic and Zverev.
A immediate break-back from Tsurenko, who goes 30-0 down before rattling through four rapid-fire points and taking the game with a belting return.
The first game goes to Halep, and it was a hard-fought one, the Romanian bringing it to 40-40 by concluding a lovely rally with a delicate drop-shot before taking the advantage with a deep cross-court drive. Tsurenko’s double fault decides the game.
Halep and Tsurenko have locked horns – in 24-degree heat – and it’s the Ukrainian who serves first, going 30-15 up with some tidy, aggressive tennis.
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Johanna Konta also racked up an emphatic win. Here’s a report on that and the rest of the women’s single matches, including a gruelling win for Sloane Stephens:
Not long now until the racketeering gets under way. In the meantime here’s our correspondent’s report from yesterday’s men’s singles action, when Federer and Nadal forged very different paths to their respective wins:
Preamble
The sun is beating down on Paris and we’ve a tasty day of tennis ahead of us. Both the top-seeded singles players are in action in today’s third-round showdowns, Novak Djokovic against Salvatore Caruso (who in his last outing dismantled the No26 seed Gilles Simon in straight sets) and Naomi Osaka against Kateřina Siniaková, who has tasted glory before at Roland Garros in a doubles capacity.
Elsewhere there’s an all-American clash between Serena Wiliams and Sofia Kenin, a local derby between Antoine Hoang and Gaël Monfils, plus the conclusion of Stefanos Tsitsipas’ match-up with Filip Krajinović. Dominic Thiem, Juan Martín del Potro and Ashleigh Barty round off the top-10 seeds who will be put through their paces.
But that’s later. First up, Simone Halep takes on the Ukrainian 27th seeds Lesia Tsurenko – who saw off Aleksandra Krunić in a hard-fought game yesterday – while over on Court Simonne-Mathieu, Alexander Zverev will be vying for a place in the last 16 with the Serbian clay-court specialist Dušan Lajović. Stay tuned!
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