Iga Swiatek toured without a set
In the women’s singles second round match on the fifth day of the French Open (Roland Garros), held in Paris, the capital of France, the French Open champion in 2020 and 2022, the world number 1, the Polish Iga Swiatek, she faced the world number 102, the American Claire Liu.
Swiatek, who won the match, which lasted one hour and 29 minutes, 2-0 in sets 6-4, 6-0, became China’s Xinyu Wang’s opponent in the third round.
In women, the American Coco Gauff (seeded 6), the Austrian Julia Grabher, the Tunisian Ounce Jabeur (7) defeated the French Oceane Dodin 2-0 with sets that ended 6-2 and 6-3. In the third round they faced Gauff and the Russian Mirra Andreeva, Jabeur and the Serbian Olga Danilovic.
In the men’s singles, the German Daniel Altmaier eliminated the Italian Jannik Sinner (8) with a score of 3-2 (6-7, 7-6, 1-6, 7-6, 7-5) and scored one of the surprises of the day.
American Frances Tiafoe (12), Croatian Borna Coric (15), Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (27) and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (28) defeated their men’s 3rd round rivals Tommy Paul Men (16) and Australian Alex De Minaur (18) said goodbye to the tournament. (AA)