{"id":667027,"date":"2026-05-27T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:30:09","slug":"roland-garros-wrap-tues-may-26-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667027\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland-Garros wrap &#8211; Tues May 26 &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a relatively smooth Tuesday for the world No.1s however as Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner both won at either ends of Day 3.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka, a runner-up here last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-r1-sabalenka-bouzas-maneiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">beat Spain\u2019s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-2<\/a> while Sinner starred during the night session <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-r1-tabur-sinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">with a routine win over French wildcard Clement Tabur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Coco Gauff got through a tight first set against friend and doubles world No.2 Taylor Townsend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-r1-gauff-townsend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">before she hit the gas to win 6-4, 6-0 on Chatrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s draw lost a big seed late on when Australian world No.83 Kim Birrell scored the biggest win of her career over world No.5 Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/matches\/2026\/SD079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Birrell\u2019s 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory<\/a> is her best by ranking, her first over a top-5 player and her maiden match win at the Paris major. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier Czech Linda Noskova was another casualty when the 12th seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/matches\/2026\/SD088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lost in straight sets to former semifinalist Maria Sakkari from Greece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a relatively smooth Tuesday for the world No.1s however as Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-667027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}