Fifty -four minutes in the first round, 61 in the second. World No. 1 Iga Swiatek on Thursday to advance to the third round at Roland Garros with a 6-0, 6-2 win over American Alison Riske.
His consecutive wins, from Doha in February to Paris, now reach 30. So he became the fourth player since the turn of the century to achieve a consecutive 30 wins, after the siblings by Williams and Justine Henin. .
Pole also became the first world-ranked player to win 13 consecutive games since Serena Williams in 2015.
On the Suzanne-Lenglen court, Swiatek led 6-0 and 3-0 before slowing down a bit, allowing Riske to win two games. In the first round, the American, 36th in the WTA, scored just seven small points.
I enjoy playing solid tennissaid the 20 -year -old Polish.
For a place in the round of 16, the winner at Porte d’Auteuil in 2020 will face Montenegrin Danka Kovinic (95th).
In the first round, Swiatek lost just two games (6-2, 6-0) against Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko.
Two Canadians in the second round in doubles
Canadian Leylah Annie Fernandez and Belgian Kirsten Flipkens clinched their spots in the second round of doubles. Gabriella Dabrowski and her Mexican teammate Giuliana Olmos did the same.
Fernandez and Flipkens defeated Olivia Gadecki and Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz of Australia in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1.
In their second match of the tournament, they will face Russian Veronika Kudermetova and Belgian Elise Mertens.
The Dabrowski-Olmos duo won 6-2 and 6-3 against Anna Blinkova and Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
In the next round, she will face the winners of the bout of Belinda Bencic and Anhelina Kalinina against Emina Bektas and Tara Moore.
Source: Radio-Canada
