15 seed outlasted Kuznetsova over two hours despite possessing the worse second-serve and break-point percentages. Victoria Azarenka got the best of Svetlana Kuznetsova in a three-set battle that the Belarusian finished off with a 6-3 third-set triumph. The biggest draw on the women's side Sunday was a showdown between major champions.
Oceane Dodin, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1Īnhelina Kalinina def. Tsitsipas handled Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in straight sets to close out the play on Court Philippe-Chatrier.ĭaniil Medvedev is the other player to watch in the bottom half, but he does not own a main-draw victory at Roland Garros. The left-handed German finished with nine aces and 50 winners, but his 32 unforced errors kept his fellow countryman in the match for two sets.Īfter Thiem's loss and Zverev's early struggles, Stefanos Tsitsipas could be viewed as the favorite to come out of the bottom half of the men's draw.
He put away Otte by holding him to four game victories in the final three sets. Zverev faces the same situation one section up from Andujar in the draw. With the win, Andujar now has victories over Thiem, a two-time French Open finalist, and Roger Federer on the clay in May.Īndujar has a chance to go far in Paris since no other single-digit seeds are in his section of the draw. Andujar finished with an advantage over Thiem in most of the major stat categories. 4 seed in second-serve percentage, net points won and break points won. Thiem was 5-of-12 on net points in the fourth set.Īndujar carried that momentum into the fifth set, where he bested the No. The Spaniard's first-serve percentage dropped in the fourth set, but he made up for that by winning nine of 10 points at net. Thiem appeared to be in decent control of his match until the third set came around.Īndujar took control of the third set by fending off a pair of break points earned by Thiem and by converting 16 of his 19 first-serve points. 18 Grigor Dimitrov, 2-6, 4-6, 7-5, 3-0 (retired)īotic van de Zandschulp def. Her defeat was an extension of her overall poor form on the Paris clay. There was little concern for the top players in the women's singles draw, as Naomi Osaka and Aryna Sabalenka advanced in straight sets.Īngelique Kerber was the only seeded woman to lose Sunday. Zverev survived the first-round test, but his win and Thiem's loss showed that the bottom half of the men's singles draw could be more wide open than we thought before Sunday.
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