Defending champion Simona Halep of Romania needed just 55 minutes to dispatch Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko 6-2 6-1 on Court Philippe Chatrier and advance to the fourth round of the French Open.
The third-seeded Halep converted 7 out of 7 break points by the time the scoreline read 6-2 5-1, then had her own serve broken at love, but in the following game used up her third break point to dominantly win the third-round match, increasing her head-to-head record against the world No.27 Tsurenko to 8-0.
The winners-to-unforced-errors differential was overwhelmingly on Halep’s side, as the former world No.