Roland Garros live scores 2023: Iga Swiatek updates

Emphatic from Swiatek! The Pole steps into another short ball from Liu and powers away the forehand winner down the line. It’s 3-0 already, and you have to think Swiatek smells another bagel – even at this early stage.

The danger signs are flashing immediately for Claire Liu as Iga Swiatek steps into a short ball midcourt and smacks a forehand winner. It sets up an early break point, and although the American saves it, another soon arrives as she sends a smash way over the baseline. Liu then blinks on a simple forehand – which again goes long – and Swiatek gets the early break.

The schedule is out for the start of the third round tomorrow:

Jessica Pegula v Elise Mertens

Aryna Sabalenka v Rakhimova

Novak Djokovic v Alejandro Davidovich Fokina

Carlos Alcaraz v Denis Shapovalov

Daria Kasatkina v Peyton Stearns

Andrey Rublev v Lorenzo Sonego

Sloane Stephens v Yulia Putintseva

Stefanos Tsitsipas v Diego Schwartzmann

Karen Khachanov v Thanasi Kokkinakis

Elina Svitolina v Anna Blinkova

Cameron Norrie v Lorenzo Musetti

Karolina Muchova vs Irina-Camelia Begu

Up next on Philippe-Chatrier is the defending champion and world No 1. Iga Swiatek celebrated her 22nd birthday yesterday and is back in action this afternoon as the Pole resumes her Roland Garros defence. Claire Liu, the world No 102, faces the unenviable task.

Mirra Andreeva goes through! The 16-year-old takes out a French player at Roland Garros, and emphatically so. A 6-1 6-2 victory over Diane Parry secures her place in the next round. Another good luck text from Andy Murray to come?

Casper Ruud finishes the job against Giulio Zeppieri – who battled hard to take it to a fourth but was undone by cramp right at the end. Ruud advances and will play either Thiago Agustin Tirante or Zhizhen Zhang next. Nice draw.

Daniel Altmaier takes the tiebreak to level the match against Jannik Sinner! The German had seen three set points come and go, but then holds his nerve to put away the overhead. Nicely done.

Over on Chatrier, Giulio Zeppieri has broken back in the fourth set against Casper Ruud – but the Norwegian has the chance to break straight back. The back news for the Italian is he is cramping badly – and has needed to take a medical timeout.

Daniel Altmaier ensures he gets at least a tiebreak against Jannik Sinner in the second set on Suzanne-Lenglen.

Meanwhile Casper Ruud is now closing in on the third round. The Norwegian gets the break in the fourth and is now two games away from victory.

Elena Rybakina was in impressive form earlier as the Italian Open champion extended her hot streak with a straight-sets win to advance to the third round.

Breakthrough for Tomas Martin Etcheverry!

The 23-year-old Argentine takes out the 18th seed Alex de Minaur in straight sets to advance to the third round of a grand slam for the first time.

Etcheverry’s reward is an open draw, created by Daniil Medvedev’s shock exit on Tuesday.

Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka is the highest remaining seed in that eighth of the draw – so there is going to be a surprise quarter-finalist.