Tough start for two of Roland Garros favorites Naomi Osaka and Petra Kvitova, who struggled to outpace inferior opponents on paper in the first round. For the silent Japanese the second set was complicated against the Romanian Patricia Maria Tig, against whom she had to come back in her first match six years ago in Hua Hin. This time he won in two sets, but had to close the win in the tiebreaker: 6-4 and 7-6 (4) in 1h: 47. The one in Paris is not far from the Grand Slam that is best given to the Japanese. He has never made it past the third round. Osaka will face another Romanian, Ana Bogdan, on Wednesday.
Kvitova, who was a semifinalist in 2012 and 2020, passed Cain's to overtake Belgian Greet Minnen, who came from the previous one and is still unable to beat a top-20, although this time it was very close. And it is that she had a match point to the rest in the twelfth game of the second set, but the Czech lifted it, then saved herself in the tie-break and sentenced in the third set when the Belgian could no longer put up any more resistance (6-7 (3), 7-6 (5) and 6-1 in 2:16). Kvitova will meet the Russian Vesnina.
You didn't have much trouble moving forward, far from it, Aryna Sabalenka. The champion of the past Mutua Madrid Open She beat Croatian Konjuh, who came from qualifying, in two sets, for 6-4 and 6-3 in 75 minutes. The Belarusian, third seed, dispatched 24 winners and did not mind making 31 unforced errors, because she intimidated her rival. He will face his compatriot Sasnovich. With more difficulties, another Belarusian, Victoria Azarenka, went to the second round, who had to avoid the attempt to come back from Russia's Kuznetsova, champion of the tournament in 2009 and who had won it 13 years ago in Paris. After winning 6-4, 2-6 and 6-3, she will face the Danish Clara Tauson.
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