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The defending champion amazes with a “double bagel”. Last year’s finalist Gauff is also in the round of 16.
The top 10 players
- Iga Swiatek (POL/WTA 1) sees Xinyu Wang (CHN/WTA 80) 6:0, 6:0
- Coco Gauff (USA/WTA 6) s. Mirra Andreeva (RUS/WTA 143) 6: 7 (5: 7), 6: 1, 6: 1
- Sara Sorribes (ESP/WTA 132) where Yelena Rybakina (KAZ/WTA 4)
What a performance in the 3rd round of Iga Swiatek! Last year’s French Open champion humiliated Xinyu Wang 6-0, 6-0 in just 51 minutes. The world number 1 did not have to concede a single breakball to her opponent and scored 50 points out of 67 played. In the round of 16, Swiatek is waiting for the winner of the game Bianca Andreescu (CAN/WTA 42) against Lesia Tsurenko (UKR/WTA 66).
Gauff wins teenage duel
With easy victories over Alison Riske-Amritraj and Diane Parry and entertaining, carefree media conferences, the only 16-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva stunned in Roland Garros. With Coco Gauff However, in the third round she encountered a hurdle that could no longer be overcome. Andreeva was initially able to stand up to last year’s finalist and even took the first set. But then the 3-year-old American turned up the heat, minimized her error rate and only conceded two games to Andreeva. Gauff’s next opponent is Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK/WTA 100).
Rybakina forced to surrender
For Elena Rybakina ended her third-round game at the French Open against Sara Sorribes before the first rally. The Wimbledon winner had to withdraw at short notice due to illness. She has a fever, Rybakina explained. She had not felt well the day before and had hardly slept for two days.
“It’s the right decision because it’s difficult to play like that. I’m really sad, but that’s life.” Her immune system was affected by an allergy and she caught a virus, Rybakina reported. She is the fifth player out of the top ten in the world rankings who is no longer at Roland Garros. The world rankings-132. For the first time in her career, Sorribes is in a round of 16 at a Grand Slam tournament and is up against Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia (WTA 14).