The Danish Clara Tauson qualified for the round of 16 of Roland-Garros, eliminating the American Sofia Kenin (6-2, 7-5) at the Roland-Garros in Paris, Friday midday.
Tauson, 72nd WTA player in the world, will face the winner of the upcoming match between Canadian Leylah Fernandez, seeded No. 31, and Tunisian Ons Jabeur, seeded No. 8 in the round of 16 of the Grand French Slam.
The 21-year-old Dane clearly dominated the German Tatjana Maria (6-2, 6-3), and won against the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, seeded n°9 (7-6 [4]4-6, 6-3), before her success on Friday against Kenin, ranked 56th in the WTA.
The American had dismissed the German Laura Siegemund (4-6, 6-2, 6-2), and had beaten the French Caroline Garcia, seeded n°21, without being worried about the score (6-3, 6 -3).
The other posters for the third round at Roland-Garros (Grand Slam, Roland-Garros, clay, 53,478,000 EUR, results displayed from most recent to oldest):
- Madison Keys – Emma Navarro: scheduled for Saturday
- Mirra Andreeva – Peyton Stearns: scheduled for Saturday
- Paula Badosa – Aryna Sabalenka: scheduled for Saturday
- Elina Svitolina – Ana Bogdan: scheduled for Saturday
- Bianca Andreescu – Jasmine Paolini: scheduled for Saturday
- Elise Mertens – Elena Rybakina: scheduled for Saturday
- Varvara Gracheva – Irina-Camelia Begu: scheduled for Saturday
- Qinwen Zheng – Elina Avanesyan: scheduled for Saturday
- Iga Swiatek – Marie Bouzkova: scheduled for Friday
- Leylah Fernandez – Ons Jabeur: scheduled for Friday
- Marketa Vondrousova (N.5) – Chloe Paquet (WC): 6-1, 6-3
- Anastasia Potapova – Xinyu Wang: scheduled for Friday
- Coco Gauff (N.3) – Dayana Yastremska (N.30): 6-2, 6-4
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto – Liudmila Samsonova (N.17): 7-6 [4]6-2
- Olga Danilovic (Q) – Donna Vekic: 0-6, 7-5, 7-6 [8]
