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Summary
- Defending champion Simona Halep leads Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko 6-2 in third round
- Listen to live commentary from the BBC Radio 5 Live tennis team in Paris
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By Mike Henson
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- for the first time.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadalcreated yet more history as they reached the fourth round for a record 14th time.
But it was less happy times for some of the women’s top 10 seeds, withKarolina PliskovaandElina Svitolinaboth knocked out.
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Halep holds
Halep 6-2 2-0 *Tsurenko
‘Jeu’ says the chair umpire and it is another for Simona Halep.
The defending champion has been too consistent, too solid for the occasional glimpses for magic from Lesia Tsurenko to have any impression.
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Halep breaks
*Halep 6-2 1-0 Tsurenko
Lesia Tsurenko cannot adjust quickly enough to a thick net cord, rushing her response into the net to slip 15-30 down.
Here come two break points for Simona Halep.
First serve missed by Tsurenko.
Halep on top in the resulting rally.
And that is a clean kill. A vicious forehand down the line from Halep that Tsurenko does not even bother getting out the blocks for.
Tsurenko is yet to hold serve.
Post update
Naomi Cavaday
BBC Radio 5 live tennis commentator at Roland Garros
The conditions – it is a lot warmer today. The times Tsurenko has been playing this week it has been a lot cooler. Maybe suddenly the ball is flying for her, it might be feeling a bit loose on her strings.
Zverev goes early break down
*Zverev 1-3 Lajovic
Things are not going quite so smoothly for fifth seed Alexander Zverev, who is already a break down in his third-round match against world number 35 Dusan Lajovic.
He just doesn’t make things easy for himself, does he?!
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