Daria Kasatkina advances to the Roland Garros third spherical in her first Grand Slam representing Australia, whereas Alex de Minaur suffers a shock loss.
Paris, France, 30 Could 2025 | Vivienne Christie
If Daria Kasatkina is feeling any stress in her first Grand Slam representing Australia, the world No.17 isn’t exhibiting it in her tenth main-draw marketing campaign at Roland Garros.
After a gritty three-set win over Katerina Siniakova within the opening spherical, Kasastkina claimed a 6-4 6-2 victory over French wildcard Leolia Jeanjean on Thursday.
It sees the 28-year-old Kasatkina, who achieved her greatest Grand Slam consequence at a Roland Garros semifinalist in 2022, by way of to the third spherical of the claycourt main for the seventh time in her profession.
Roland Garros 2025 marks Kasatkina’s fifth event competing as an Australian, having first completed so at Charleston in March.
And whereas she admits there was some added stress when she took to the courtroom in Paris this yr, the smiling Kasatkina was fast so as to add that it was a “good stress”.
“When there are modifications in your life and modifications like this (switching nationality), they don’t seem to be small,” she defined after her first-round win. “It’s regular to really feel like that.”
There have been few indicators of nerves because the No.17 seed deftly managed Jeanjean in her newest match, Kasatkina recording 24 winners in her one-hour, 39-minute win.
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It showcased the artistic type of play that has made the 28-year-old a fan favorite and helped her obtain a top-10 rating in a career-best 2022 season.
“I don’t have an enormous robust physique like a few of the women, a few of the gamers. So I’ve to win with one thing else. It needs to be my mind or my legs or no matter,” Kasatkina advised Stan Sport of the range she likes to utilise on courtroom.
“Typically I give you some uncommon stuff on courtroom and generally [even] me, I don’t know what [shot] I’m going to play.”
Kasatkina will subsequent intention to maximise that selection in a high-profile third spherical towards Paula Badosa, the No.10 seed and an Australian Open 2025 semifinalist.
“Dasha” does so with help from an appreciative crowd.
“In the course of the matches I can hear from the gang like folks screaming, ‘let’s go Aussie!’ and the ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie oi oi oi’ and this type of stuff,” she mentioned of a heat reception at Roland Garros.
“In order that’s fairly good and tremendous essential to me to be welcomed … to get all this help.”
It gives added incentive after a life-changing interval of her profession.
“[I] couldn’t imagine that someday I may name myself an Australian,” Kasatkina beamed earlier this week.
“You by no means know the place life will carry you.”
De Minaur, Walton bow out
It was a harder day for different Australian gamers at Roland Garros, with the ninth-seeded Alex de Minaur struggling a shock loss to Alexander Bublik and Adam Walton exiting to No.17 seed Andrey Rublev.
De Minaur led by two units towards the flashy Bublik and conceded fatigue was an element because the Kazakhstani fought again to assert a 2-6 2-6 6-4 6-3 6-2 victory.
Walton was unable to match the feats of claiming the primary five-set win of his profession – towards Germany’s Maximilan Marterer – within the opening spherical, with Rublev rising a 7-6(1) 6-1 7-6(5) winner.
AUSSIES IN ACTION – ROLAND GARROS DAY 5
Ladies’s singles, second spherical
[17] Daria Kasatkina (AUS) d [WC] Leolia Jeanjean (FRA) 6-4 6-2
Males’s singles, second spherical
Alexander Bublik (KAZ) d [9] Alex de Minaur (AUS) 2-6 2-6 6-4 6-3 6-2
[17] Andrey Rublev d Adam Walton (AUS) 7-6(1) 6-1 7-6(5)
COMING UP
Males’s singles, third spherical
[25] Alexei Popyrin (AUS) v Nuno Borges (POR)
Ladies’s singles, third spherical
[17] Daria Kasatkina (AUS) v Paula Badosa (ESP)
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