French Open 2022 Results: Medvedev, Swiatek Highlight Saturday’s Winners

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Upsets have dominated the women’s draw
at the 2022 French Open, but No. 1 ranked Iga Swiatek continued to
breeze through the early rounds with a straight-set victory over
Danka Kovinic on Saturday at Roland Garros in Paris.

Swiatek is now the only top-10 seed
remaining on the women’s side at the season’s second Grand Slam
tournament after Paula Badosa was forced to withdraw because of
injury and Aryna Sabalenka suffered an upset loss during Saturday’s
action.

It’s been the polar opposite story in
the men’s bracket, where all of the pre-tournament favorites are still active in
pursuit of the major championship. Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos
Tsitsipas were among the notable winners as the third round wrapped
up.

Let’s check out all of the singles
results, which will be updated through the day’s end of play. That’s
followed by a recap of the most noteworthy matches.

Women’s Results

(1) Iga Swiatek d. Danka Kovinic; 6-3,
7-5

(29) Veronika Kudermetova d. (3) Paula
Badosa; 6-3, 2-1 ret.

(28) Camila Giorgi d. (7) Aryna
Sabalenka; 4-6, 6-1, 6-0

(11) Jessica Pegula d. (24) Tamara
Zidansek; 6-1, 7-6 (2)

(22) Madison
Keys d. (16) Elena Rybakina; 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (3)

(20) Daria Kasatkina d. Shelby Rogers;
6-3, 6-2

Qinwen Zheng d. Alize Cornet; 6-0, 3-0
ret.

Irina-Camelia Begu d. Leolia Jeanjean;
6-1, 6-4

Men’s Results

(2) Daniil Medvedev d. (28) Miomir
Kecmanovic; 6-2, 6-4, 6-2

(4) Stefanos Tsitsipas d. Mikael Ymer;
6-2, 6-2, 6-1

(7) Andrey Rublev d. Cristian Garin;
6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (11)

(8) Casper Ruud vs. (32) Lorenzo Sonego

(11) Jannik Sinner d. Mackenzie
McDonald; 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-3

(12) Hubert Hurkacz d. David Goffin;
7-5, 6-2, 6-1

(20) Marin Cilic d. Gilles Simon; 6-0,
6-3, 6-2

Holger Rune vs. Hugo Gaston

Day 7 Recap

Swiatek won her first Grand Slam title
at the 2020 French Open, and with most of her top-tier WTA Tour foes
now eliminated, she’s the clear favorite to add another major trophy
to her collection.

The 20-year-old Polish sensation wasn’t
at her best Saturday, tallying 23 unforced errors against 13 winners,
but she still managed to advance thanks to winning 48 percent of
points on the return en route to five breaks of serve.

“I changed the tactics in second
set a little bit to play less risky, but then I did some mistakes,” Swiatek told reporters. “I lost my breaks. I’m not perfectly happy
with that, but overall I’m happy with the performance, and that I
came back in the second set.”

She’s reached the fourth round without
dropping a set despite only playing her best in spurts, which is a
promising sign for the remainder of the event.

“Everything I wanted to do today
worked,” Medvedev said. “I was serving great. I feel like I was
almost putting all the returns in and I made his life tough. Maybe he
didn’t play his best level, [but] I managed from my side to make his
life as tough as possible, and it was enough to win today.”

His draw gets tougher starting against Marin Cilic in the fourth round, but his level of play so far makes him the
player to beat in the bottom half.