What happened on Wednesday<\/p>\n
On a hot and balmy Day 4 in Paris, second-round matches got underway, shaking things up in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles draw.<\/p>\n
Our reporters once again slapped on the sunscreen and headed out to see what was going on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chris Oddo started his day on Court Simonne-Mathieu, watching No.11 seed Belinda Bencic<\/a> – playing in her first Roland-Garros since becoming a mother to daughter Bella – take a 6-4, 6-0 win over the USA\u2019s Caty McNally. He finished his day on Court Suzanne-Lenglen, as a \u201ccrisp, lively and efficient\u201d Casper Ruud booked his spot in the third round<\/a>. And like all good reporters, Chris has a very enquiring mind – when he wasn\u2019t watching tennis he set out to find out how this week\u2019s heat is transforming the clay<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n Dan Imhoff took his seat on\u00a0 Chatrier first up to watch Czech lefty Sara Bejlek try unsuccessfuly to find a way past Iga Swiatek<\/a>. He then got into the carnival mood and joined the exuberant crowds on Court 14 as Brazil\u2019s Joao Fonseca came back from two sets down<\/a> to beat Croatian Dino Prizmic.<\/p>\n Alex Sharp watched Ukraine\u2019s Yuliia Starodubtseva clinch the biggest win of her career as she downed No.2 seed and Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina. He then sat down for a chat with the world No.55<\/a> to find out what she really thought about it all. An excellent multitasker, he also kept a watching eye on Novak Djkovic, who was busy over on Chatrier<\/a> amassing more records as he beat Frenchman Valentin Royer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Our regular night-owl Victoria Chiesa was on the case as the lights came on for Alexander Zverev\u2019s 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 win<\/a> over Tomas Machac.\u00a0<\/p>\n With so much going on on Wednesday, Lee Goodall had quite a lot to sum up in his daily wrap<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u27a1\ufe0f\u00a0 Order of play for Thursday<\/a>
\u27a1\ufe0f\u00a0 Thursday\u2019<\/a>s live scores<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened on Wednesday On a hot and balmy Day 4 in Paris, second-round matches got underway, shaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-699549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}