The sixth seed needed two tie-breakers to get the better of the Russian qualifier and enter the third round in Paris.
French Open : World No 1 Ashleigh Barty marked her return to the French Open for the first time since her 2019 and beat Bernarda Pera and made it to the second round. However, she ...
Novak Djokovic began his French Open 2021 in dominant fashion, registering a straight sets 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 win over Tennys Sandgren.
Osaka pulled out of the tournament after facing criticism from the French Open organizing committee because she did not want to attend post-match media.
Popyrin did hold the advantage in the third set, as he led 5-2, but Nadal pulled it back to 5-5 before ending the match in a tie-breaker.
The 31-year-old injured her ankle after a freak fall as she was finishing a post-match press conference on Sunday.
Bernarda Pera stretched World No.1 Barty to three sets, but the former French Open champion survived the hard-fought battle.
On the back of a comfortable first-round win at Roland Garros, the Swiss maestro feels he’s “getting better every month”.
The Japanese player has sparked a huge reaction from the tennis world following her decision to withdraw from the French Open.
Last Wednesday, Naomi Osaka announced she would not take part in the media interviews at Roland-Garros 2021.