Emma Raducanu failed to turn around her difficult season at Roland Garros. The winner of last year’s US Open lost to Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the second round in Paris on Wednesday.
Twelfth seed Raducanu started well at Court Suzanne-Lenglen, but won only two games in the last two sets against Sasnovich (ATP-47): 6-3, 1-6 and 1-6.
The 19-year-old Raducanu hasn’t had much of an attractive result since his staggering overall win at the US Open in September. The Briton has won just eight of eighteen games this season. He also failed in the second round of the Australian Open in January.
Against Sasnovich, Raducanu made 33 unnecessary mistakes against only seventeen winners. The 28-year-old Belarusian played less sloppily (24 unnecessary fouls) and is playing the third round of Roland Garros for the first time in his career.
There was another Belarusian who, along with Victoria Azarenka, reached the third round on Wednesday. Former two-time Grand Slam winners signed Andrea Petkovic of Germany in straight sets: 6-1, 7-6 (3).
Schuurs started well in the doubles
Among the men, Félix Auger-Aliassime and John Isner were among the last 32. Auger-Aliassime lost just seven games to ninth-seeded Camilo Ugo Carabelli (6-0, 6-3 and 6-4) beating Isner (23) Grégoire Barrère in four sets: 6-4, 6-4, 3-6 and 7-6 (5).
Demi Schuurs got off to a good start in the women’s doubles. The Orange squad lost only three games in the first round to their American partner Desirae Krawczyk against the Spanish Nuria Párrizas Díaz and the Polish Katarzyna Piter: 6-0 and 6-3.
Schuurs and Krawczyk are fifth in Paris. The duo won the championship on clay this season in Stuttgart and reached the final of the WTA Grand Tournament in Madrid.
Source: NU
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