Women's round-up: Sam Stosur sets up Maria Sharapova clash after resounding win
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Updated 27/05/2015 at 23:36 GMT
Sam Stosur's decision to re-hire the coach who led her to Grand Slam glory four years ago is paying off at the French Open, as the Australian blazed into the third round for the loss of one game with a 6-0 6-1 win over French wildcard Amandine Hesse.
Samantha Stosur of Australia plays a shot to Amandine Hesse of France
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Stosur won the 2011 US Open and reached the 2010 final at Roland Garros under the guidance of David Taylor, and last month she and Taylor resumed their professional partnership.
Things will toughen up in the next round as Stosur faces defending champion Maria Sharapova after her 6-3 6-1 defeat of fellow Russian Vitalia Diatchenko.
Former champion Ana Ivanovic avoided a second round upset at the French Open when the Serb battled back from a set down to beat lowly-ranked Japanese player Misaki Doi.
The seventh seed, who beat Dinara Safina to win the title in 2008 and has returned to her best form after a slump, was outplayed initially by Doi but recovered to win 3-6 6-3 6-4 with the clock past 9pm local time.
She was on tenterhooks until the end though and failed to serve out the match at 5-2 in the decider, showing her frustration as she blazed a forehand wide.
Doi then held serve with a crafty drop shot but Ivanovic kept her nerve, moving 40-0 ahead on serve and sealing victory when Doi fired a backhand long.
Ivanovic will face Croatian teenager Donna Vekic in the third round.
Germany's Sabine Lisicki went through after just 42 minutes as Russia's Daria Gavrilova retired injured after losing the first set 6-1.
Annika Beck made it a doubly successful morning for Germany after comfortably beating Poland's Paula Kania 6-2, 6-2.
There was an even more emphatic win for the Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova, who crushed Japan's Kurumi Nara 6-2 6-0.
Results from the French Open Women's Singles Round Two matches on Wednesday
7-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) beat Misaki Doi (Japan) 3-6 6-3 6-4
9-Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) beat Teliana Pereira (Brazil) 6-2 5-7 6-3
28-Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Magdalena Rybarikova (Slovakia) 6-2 6-0
8-Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) beat Virginie Razzano (France) 6-3 1-0 (Razzano retired)
21-Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Spain) beat Camila Giorgi (Italy) 6-1 6-4
19-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) beat Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan) 1-6 7-5 9-7
Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat Polona Hercog (Slovenia) 2-6 6-1 6-3
11-Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (Australia) 6-3 6-2
Donna Vekic (Croatia) beat Bojana Jovanovski (Serbia) 6-4 6-3
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Croatia) beat 3-Simona Halep (Romania) 7-5 6-1
29-Alize Cornet (France) beat Alexandra Dulgheru (Romania) 6-2 7-5
2-Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Vitalia Diatchenko (Russia) 6-3 6-1
Annika Beck (Germany) beat Paula Kania (Poland) 6-2 6-2
13-Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) beat Kurumi Nara (Japan) 6-2 6-0
26-Samantha Stosur (Australia) beat Amandine Hesse (France) 6-0 6-1
20-Sabine Lisicki (Germany) beat Daria Gavrilova (Australia) 6-1 (Gavrilova retired)
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