American prodigy Amanda Anisimova moved into the third round of the French Open with another assured display.
After beating former world number one Naomi Osaka, the 27th seed overcame Croatian Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-1.
Having famously made the semi-finals three years ago as a 17-year-old, Anisimova will again fancy her chances of going far in this tournament.
She will next face Czech Karolina Muchova who shocked fourth seed Maria Sakkari 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4).
However, another Czech with the same name was not so fortunate as former world number one Karolina Pliskova was beaten by home star Leolia Jeanjean.
The world number 227 winning comprehensively 6-2, 6-2 to achieve the biggest win of her career.
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Afterwards she had this to say.
“This match was full of emotions through and through. I managed to unroll my tactics to make her move back and forth, to put spin on my ball.
“I didn’t know it would happen this way. It’s incredible to think that I actually won in two sets against a top-10 player, a previous world number one. It’s incredible,” she added.
“I’m very happy with my match today.”
Pliskova congratulated her opponent.
“Well obviously, not great that I lost. I think she played a really good match, didn’t give me many same balls so I just couldn’t find my rhythm.”
Meanwhile, Olympic Champion Belinda Bencic dashed hopes of an all-Canadian clash as she downed former US Open Champion Bianca Andreescu 6-2, 6-4.
She will play last year’s finalist in New York, young star Leylah Fernandez who beat Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 6-2.
