French Open 2022: Angelique Kerber, Belinda Bencic knocked out in third spherical, Coco Gauff progresses

3-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber was knocked out of French Open 2022 within the ladies’s singles third spherical. Kerber misplaced to World No. 47 Aliaksandra Sasnovich in straight units at Court Simmone Mathieu on Friday, May 27.

Belarusian Sasnovch, who’s enjoying underneath a impartial flag, has been making heads flip at Roland Garros after having eradicated US Open champion Emma Raducanu within the second set.

She subsequent faces Italian participant Martina Trevisan, whose greatest outcome at a Grand Slam was the quarterfinals at Roland Garros two years in the past.

LEYLAH OUSTS BENCIC

Meanwhile, US Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez reached the fourth spherical on the French Open for the primary time.

Playing on the middle courtroom, Philipe Chatriier, Leylah didn’t get overwhelmed by the sense of the event as she defeated Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic 7-5, 3-6, 7-5.

Leylah is bidding to script historical past as the very best outcome for a Canadian girl on the French Open has been a semi-final finishfor Eugine Bouchard in 2014.

The Seventeenth-seeded Fernandez broke Bencic within the eleventh recreation of the deciding set and served out the match. She had saved two set factors within the opener.

Fernandez subsequent faces 20-year-old Amanda Anisimova, who reached the Roland Garros semifinals in 2019.

Coco Gauff into the 4th spherical

Coco Gauff reached the fourth spherical on the French Open by beating Kaia Kanepi.

The 18-year-old Gauff, the youngest remaining girl within the draw, defeated the 36-year-old Kanepi, the oldest remaining girl, 6-3, 6-4.

The younger American is attempting to enhance on her quarterfinal run at Roland Garros a yr in the past.

Gauff had six aces — and 5 double-faults — whereas her Estonian opponent made 29 unforced errors. The teenager has not dropped a set in her first three matches.

Gauff subsequent faces No. 31 Elise Mertens.