Roland Garros, Serena Williams eliminated in the round of 16

2021-06-07T18:39:48.376Z

Serena Williams greets Paris. The American tennis player left the stage in the round of 16 of the Roland Garros women's singles, second round of the Grand Slam, on French clay. The former number 1 in the world and seventh seeding force, has surrendered against the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, 22 of the WTA ranking, with a score of 6-3 7-5. In the quarter-finals Rybakina will face the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (31), who defeated the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka (15) 5-7, 6-3, 6-2. The Spanish Paula Badosa Gilbert, number 35 in the world, beat the Czech Marketa Vondrousova, 21 in the international ranking, by 6-4 3-6 6-2. Bdosa will challenge the Slovenian Tamara Zidansek in the quarter-finals, victorious over the Romanian Sorana Cirstea for 7-6 (4), 6-1. Tomorrow the four round of 16 of the upper part of the scoreboard will be played:Ons Jabeur (Tun, 25) -Coco Gauff (Usa, 24); Sloane Stephens (USA) - Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Rep.); Sofia Kenin (Usa, 4) -Maria Sakkari (Gre, 17); Marta Kostyuk (Ucr) -Iga Swiatek (Pol, 8).