Angelique Kerber has reached the third round at the French Open.

The German number one won against the French wild card player Elsa Jacquemot 6: 1, 7: 6 (7: 2) on Wednesday and was only challenged a little more in the second set.

In the third round on Friday, Kerber will meet Alexandra Sasnowitsch from Belarus, who surprisingly defeated the British US Open winner Emma Raducanu 3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 1.

"When you've won everything, you only play because of the love for the sport," she said when asked why she's still on the tour at 34: "And I love tennis".

Andrea Petkovic, on the other hand, was eliminated in the second round of the second Grand Slam tournament of the tennis season.

The 34-year-old from Darmstadt lost to Viktoria Asarenka from Belarus 1: 6, 6: 7 (3: 7).