Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Leylah Fernandez advanced to the third round of the French Open on Wednesday, while Bianca Andreescu was eliminated in consecutive sets.
Auger-Aliassime did a quick job of qualifying Argentine Camilo Ugo Carabelli, winning 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Paris Major for the first time in his career.
The 21-year-old Montreal product, the tournament’s ninth seed, threw eight aces and turned five of the 10 breakpoints into a dominant display on Roland Garros clay.
Auger-Aliassime looked much more confident against Carabelli than in his awkward 2-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas on Sunday.
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Auger-Aliassime reaches the third round of Roland Garros for the first time in his career
The No. 9 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal defeated Argentine Camilo Ugo Carabelli 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the third round of the French Open by first time in his career.
“It was a better start than my first round, for sure,” he said. “I think that gave me confidence that if I went down that path and won my service games and kept being aggressive and trying to dominate, it would give me a good chance of winning in sets in a row.”
Auger-Aliassime’s next match will be on Thursday against Serbian Filip Krajinovic, who defeated Croatia’s Borna Gojo 7-6, 6-2, 5-7 and 6-1.
Montreal’s Leylah Fernandez, the 17th seed in the women’s team, needed just 71 minutes to eliminate Czech Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 6-2.
“I think I just played a very good game, especially in important points of the first set,” said Fernandez. “In the second set, I was happy to have been able to maintain that offense and continue with my shots, and I’m glad the balls came in when it mattered.”
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Fernandez enters the third round of the French Open
No. 17 seed Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que. Defeated Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the French Open.
Later that day, Andreescu dropped a 6-2, 6-4 decision to No. 14 seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland.
Andreescu, of Mississauga, Ontario, made a late charge winning three straight games at the end of the second set before Bencic had service for the win.
Bencic, who won Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games last summer, will face Fernandez in a third-round match on Friday.
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Andreescu falls to Bencic in the second round of the French Open
Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic, No. 14 seed, beat Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ontario 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the third round of the French Open, where she will face Leylah Fernandez de Laval, Que.
Nadal gets his 300th Grand Slam victory
Rafael Nadal achieved the 300 victories of his career in Grand Slam matches by beating Corentin Moutet 6-3, 6-1 and 6-4 in the second round.
The only real mistake of the 13-time champion of the French Open Christmas Christmas Wednesday night on the court Philippe Chatrier came to an end, when he was broken by the Frenchman number 139 while serving for the match by 5-3.
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But Nadal broke his back to improve to 107-3 at Roland Garros.
Only Roger Federer, with 369, and Novak Djokovic, who reached his 325 on Wednesday, are ahead of Nadal in the men’s list of victories in his career in the big tournaments.
Djokovic solid in victory, Alcaraz survives
World No. 1 Djokovic completed a solid 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory over Slovakia’s Alex Molcan in the second round of to maintain his title defense and search for a 21st Grand Slam that matches the record.
With Djokovic unable to defend his Australian Open title due to his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Spaniard Rafa Nadal broke the tie at three with the Serb and Roger Federer in win the Melbourne Park major in the most Grand Slam title competition. beginning of the year.
However, a successful replay of his Roland Garros 2021 campaign, when he defeated the 13-time winner of the French Christmas Open in the semifinals, will lift Djokovic alongside his great rival.
Rising star Carlos Alcaraz saved a game point in the fourth set and cleared an early lead in the fifth to beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1, 6-7 (7), 7-5, 6-7 (2), 6-4.
The sixth seed, Alcaraz, scored six of the seven final games and the last half a dozen points, to end the victory in the second round which lasted more than 4 and a half hours.
Alcaraz is only 19 years old, but he arrived in Paris with many expectations, his own and others, based on his innovative season which includes four leading titles on the tour. He is the youngest player to enter the top 10 of the ATP rankings since Christmas in 2005.
On the way to the title of the Madrid Open on clay earlier this month, Alcaraz became the first man to beat both Nadal and Djokovic in the same tournament on this surface.
But he came very close to making a faster start than anyone expected against his compatriot Ramos-Vinolas, a 34-year-old player who ranks 44th.
Alcaraz was on the verge of losing while Ramos-Vinolas served for the 5-4 victory in the fourth set. But Ramos-Vinolas missed a live there. Eighty minutes later, after losing 3-0 in the fifth, Alcaraz got his first game of the game and turned it into an ace.
Zverev goes back from 2 sets
Alexander Zverev had to go back from two sets below and save a game point to reach the third round.
The German beat the Argentine Sebastian Baez by 2-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 and 7-5.
This is good news for seed number 3.
The bad news is that Baez was making his French Open debut, and half of Zverev’s draws include Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz.
Zverev had trouble with Baez’s 21-year-old serve, but got his game back in order in the third set.
Zverev saved a game point before maintaining the 5-5 lead in the deciding decision and then broke Baez before serving the game.
The last time Zverev got into a two-set hole at Roland Garros didn’t end so well. He fought in the semifinals last June against Stefanos Tsitsipas, but lost in five sets.
Dismissed US Open champion
U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu is out of the French Open in the second round.
Raducanu lost to Aliaksandra Sasnovic of Belarus 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 to end her Roland Garros debut.
The 19-year-old Raducanu broke Sasnovich in the fifth game of the first set, hitting the consecutive reverse winners followed by a right to get it.
Sasnovich was unable to convert three times to break his opponent in the first set, but took advantage of two breaks to start the second, when the 47th-ranked player also won 12 of 14 service points.
The 12th seed, Raducanu, was unable to turn five break-points into a 1-1 draw in the third set, as Sasnovich recorded his 16th win of his career over a top 20 player.
Raducanu, who also lost to Sasnovich at Indian Wells last year in the Briton’s first game after winning the title at Flushing Meadows, had 17 winners and 33 unforced errors at Court Suzanne Lenglen.
Sasnovich advanced to the third round at Roland Garros for the first time. This is his seventh appearance.
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