Contrasting fortunes for former champions highlighted the fifth day of action at the French Open on Thursday. The 2020 winner Iga Swiatek racked up her 30th successive victory to reach the last 32 while Simona Halep, the queen of 2018, went down in three sets to the Chinese teenager Qinwen Zheng.
Swiatek pulverized the unseeded American Alison Riske 6-0, 6-2 on Court Suzanne Lenglen.