Day three of the French Open saw Osaka and Gauff in action after Medvedev crashed out. Tumaini Carayol provided updates from Roland Garros. The talented French teenager Moïse Kouamé beat Marin Cilic.
Parry Battles Kalinina, Darderi Struggles
Diane Parry, after taking the second set, is down a break in the third against Anhelina Kalinina, currently 2-0 to the Ukrainian. On Court 7, 14th seed Luciano Darderi was serving for the first set at 5-4 against Sebastian Ofner of Austria, but failed to see it off and has been broken back. There were no breaks in third set between the ninth seeded Bublik and Struff.
Tight Matches on Suzanne-Lenglen and Other Courts
Kalinskaya was serving for the match against Boisson on Suzanne-Lenglen. After seeing off a break point the Russian fired into the net on match point to go back to deuce but eventually wore down Boisson with a series of forehand blows to get another chance. This time she double faults.
A big serve got Kalinskaya a third chance to seal it, again wasted. Boisson had a fourth break point but Kalinskaya banged an ace down the middle. It ended with Boisson drifting a backhand into the net when facing match point. Boisson will not repeat her run to the semi-final of last year, the Russian winning 6-2 6-2.
Jaime Faria of Portugal has taken the first set 6-4 against Denis Shapovalov. The Canadian has reached the third round before at Roland Garros but is playing nearly 30 places down the world rankings from his career high of tenth.
Bublik Survives Tie-Break, Fearnley Falters
Bublik looked as if he was about to go two sets down against Struff but reeeled off five points in a row to take the tie-breaker. The Kazakh’s pass to go 7-6 up was equisite. Bublik and Struff had gone to a tie-break in their second set.
Unfortunately for British hopes, Fearnley lost the first set to Cerundolo of Argentina 2-6. Fearnley broke his opponent in the first game of the match but has been struggling on serve, if he loses there would be no British men left in the singles draw.
On Court 9, Martin Landaluce of Spain has beaten the Bolivian Juan Carlos Prado 6-3 4-6 6-2 6-7 6-4.