Alcaraz, Swiatek and Sabalenka attain French Open third spherical

Second seed Alcaraz got here via 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 towards Hungarian Fabian Marozsan to earn his seventeenth win in 18 matches on clay this season.

“Second set, he began to play higher and he did not miss loads so it was slightly bit tough to take care of his recreation,” stated Alcaraz.

“I am actually completely happy I stayed robust and refreshed myself. Within the third set, I began to play higher and higher which helped me have a very good final two units.”

Alcaraz, a four-time Grand Slam winner, goes on to face Bosnian journeyman Damir Dzumhur for a spot within the final 16.

Within the ladies’s draw, Swiatek continued her bid for a fourth straight Roland Garros crown as she outclassed fellow former US Open champion Emma Raducanu.

The Pole beat Raducanu 6-1, 6-2 to make it 5 wins in as many conferences with the Briton. She racked up her twenty third consecutive victory at Roland Garros to enhance her profession report on the event to 37-2.

Swiatek is bidding to develop into the primary lady to win 4 consecutive French Open titles since Suzanne Lenglen 102 years in the past.

The 23-year-old arrived in Paris underneath a slight cloud, having not reached a WTA closing since lifting the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen final 12 months, however has made serene progress via the primary two rounds.

“Actually, I simply love taking part in right here. This place conjures up me and that makes me work more durable,” stated Swiatek, who additionally captured the trophy as a teen in 2020.

The fifth seed will play Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian for a spot within the final 16.

Swiatek’s slide down the rankings has left her in the identical half of the draw as world primary Sabalenka, final 12 months’s runner-up Jasmine Paolini and Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen.

Sabalenka shook off a sluggish begin to blow previous Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann.

After dropping serve early within the first set, Sabalenka gained 11 of the ultimate 12 video games to energy to a 6-3, 6-1 win.

“It does not matter what the scoreboard says, she actually made me work for each level,” stated Sabalenka, who has conceded simply 5 video games via two rounds.

The Belarusian has by no means reached the French Open closing and is hoping to banish the reminiscences of a painful quarter-final loss to Mirra Andreeva in 2024.

Paolini moved into the third spherical as she brushed apart Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3, 6-3 to stretch her successful streak to eight matches following her triumph on the Italian Open.

The fourth seed from Italy advances to play Ukraine’s Yuliia Starodubtseva.

Zheng punched her ticket to the final 32 with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Colombia’s Emiliana Arango.

The Chinese language star faces one other Grand Slam debutant within the subsequent spherical, 18-year-old Victoria Mboko of Canada. Ukrainian thirteenth seed Elina Svitolina and US sixteenth seed Amanda Anisimova additionally progressed.

Twice former French Open runner-up Casper Ruud was the most important casualty on Wednesday, crashing out in 4 units to Portugal’s Nuno Borges.

Seventh seed Ruud gained the primary set towards world quantity 41 Borges however was hampered by a knee damage as he slumped to a 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-0 defeat.

“I truly felt it fairly early within the first set,” stated Ruud, unsure whether or not he could be match for Wimbledon. “It is hopefully nothing too critical.”

There have been no such issues for in-form Italian eighth seed Lorenzo Musetti, who raced previous Colombian fortunate loser Daniel Elahi Galan 6-4, 6-0, 6-4.

Musetti has reached a minimum of the semi-finals in all three Masters 1000 occasions on clay in 2025. He’ll subsequent play Argentina’s Mariano Navone.

Stefanos Tsitsipas, the twentieth seed, suffered his earliest French Open exit in seven years because the 2021 runner-up misplaced in 4 units to Matteo Gigante.

The Italian qualifier goes via to face Ben Shelton, who obtained a walkover as Hugo Gaston pulled out with an damage.

US twelfth seed Tommy Paul recovered from two units right down to advance, whereas Russian twenty fourth seed Karen Khachanov additionally gained in 5 units.

Denmark’s Holger Rune, the one man to beat Alcaraz on clay this 12 months within the Barcelona closing, performs American wild card Emilio Nava within the night time match.

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