Daria Kasatkina says she’s not feeling strain enjoying in her first grand slam as an Australian, after a 6-4, 6-2 victory over French wildcard Leolia Jeanjean.
The No.17 seed was in command of all the match in opposition to Jeanjean, with Kasatkina recording 24 winners in her one-hour, 39-minute win.
The 28-year-old made the ultimate 4 at Roland-Garros in 2022 and is now by to the third spherical for the seventh time in her profession.
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“I haven’t got an enormous robust physique like among the ladies, among the gamers. So I’ve to win with one thing else. It needs to be my mind or my legs or no matter,” Kasatkina advised Stan Sport.
Kastkina in motion. Getty
“Typically I give you some uncommon stuff on courtroom and generally [even] me, I do not know what [shot] I’ll play.”
Roland-Garros is Kasatkina’s fifth match enjoying underneath the Australian flag, since formally making the change at Charleston in March, confirming her exit from Russia.
“I am getting messages actually like on the social media and stuff additionally throughout the matches, I can hear from the group like folks screaming, let’s go Aussie and just like the. this type of stuff,” she stated.
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“Additionally like, as I stated on the social media as properly, I am getting the feedback that the persons are, glad for me they are saying, welcome to Australia and stuff.
“In order that’s fairly good and tremendous necessary to me, you realize, to be welcomed and prefer to get all of the help.”
Earlier within the week she’d defined: “[I] could not consider that in the future I might name myself an Australian.
“You by no means know the place life will deliver you.”
Kasatkina will play her third spherical match in opposition to No.10 seed Paula Badosa.
