World No.17 Daria Kasatkina goals to construct on some spectacular claycourt kind when she meets Paula Badosa on Day 7 of Roland Garros 2025.
Paris, France, 31 Could 2025 | Jackson Mansell
Daria Kasatkina headlines Australians in motion on Day 7 at Roland Garros 2025 as she faces Spaniard Paula Badosa.
In a rematch of their third-round encounter at Wimbledon 2024, when Badosa defeated the Australian 7-6(6) 4-6 6-4, Kasatkina hopes to flip the script towards the tenth seed on Saturday.
The world No.17 is vying to make the spherical of 16 at a Grand Slam for the eighth time in her profession, increasing on some spectacular progress in her Roland Garros 2025 marketing campaign.
Except for the set dropped in her first-round match towards Katerina Siniakova, Kasatkina has misplaced 9 video games in her opening two matches.
Her inventive shotmaking has boosted her return to the Roland Garros third spherical – an element that the 28-year-old believes is a much-needed level of distinction.
“I don’t have an enormous, robust physique like a few of the ladies, a few of the gamers. So I’ve to win with one thing else. It needs to be my mind or my legs or no matter,” Kasatkina instructed Stan Sport.
“Generally I give you some uncommon stuff on courtroom and generally [even] I don’t know what [shot] I’m going to play.”
Kasatkina will nudge forward of Badosa of their head-to-head if she triumphs of their third-round match.
Tied at three wins every, the 2022 Roland Garros semifinalist is hoping to win her first claycourt match towards the world No.10 because the WTA1000-level match at Rome in 2022.
In Roland Garros males’s doubles, James Duckworth and Aleksandar Vukic proceed their marketing campaign towards Sixteenth-seeds Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin within the second spherical.
It comes after a robust first-round efficiency from the Australian duo, who defeated Tunisian Skander Mansouri and Jean-Julien Rojer 7-6(2) 6-2.
Indian Wells semifinalist John-Patrick Smith additionally options on Day 7. He and Brazilian accomplice Fernando Romboli battle native pair Arthur Cazaux and Harold Mayot.
AUSSIES IN ACTION
Developing – Roland Garros Day 7
Girls’s singles, third spherical
[17] Daria Kasatkina (AUS) v [10] Paula Badosa (ESP) – First match, Court docket Simonne-Mathieu (from 7pm AEST)
Males’s doubles, second spherical
James Duckworth [AUS]/Aleksandar Vukic [AUS] v [16] Hugo Nys [MCO]/Edouard Roger-Vasselin [FRA] – First match, Court docket 9
John-Patrick Smith [AUS]/Fernando Romboli [BRA] v [WC] Arthur Cazaux [FRA]/Harold Mayot [FRA] – First match, Court docket 7
