Australia's increasingly lukewarm challenge at a boiling French Open is over after Daria Kasatkina became the last of their 13-strong contingent to bite the red dust before the end of the first week, blasted almost inevitably to defeat by world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka.
Along with the boilovers created by Adam Walton and Kim Birrell and one wholly improbable comeback win by the luckless Thanasi Kokkinakis, Kasatkina's resurgence after her troubled year has been one of the real bonuses of a tough Aussie week at Roland Garros.
She made it to Saturday as the last Australian standing at the French Open for the second successive year, after Alex de Minaur's desperately disappointing capitulation to Jakub Mensik, also in the third round, the day earlier.
