French Open 2015 Results: Winners, Scores, Stats from Thursday's Singles Bracket
The second round of the 2015 French Open is in the books, but not before a couple of upsets shook up the Roland Garros field and some top stars got pushed to the brink.
Fifth-ranked women's contender Caroline Wozniacki continued her career struggles at the French Open, losing to Germany's Julia Goerges in straight sets. She failed to get past the fourth round for the fifth straight time at Roland Garros.
No more top-10 seeds were eliminated in Thursday's action, but plenty of others received a much stiffer test than expected and overcame some adversity to get into Round 3. Let's take a look at how they fared.
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2015 French Open Scores: Thursday, May 28
| No. 1 Novak Djokovic def. Gilles Muller | 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 |
| No. 3 Andy Murray def. Joao Sousa | 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 |
| No. 6 Rafael Nadal def. Nicolas Almagro | 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 |
| No. 7 David Ferrer def. Daniel Gimeno-Traver | 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 |
| No. 9 Marin Cilic def. Andrea Arnaboldi | 7-6 (7-3), 6-1, 6-1 |
| No. 16 John Isner def. Jeremy Chardy | 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 |
| No. 17 David Goffin def. Santiago Giraldo | 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 |
| Borna Coric def. No. 18 Tommy Robredo | 7-5, 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 |
| No. 15 Kevin Anderson def. Yen-Hsun Lu | 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 |
| Jack Sock def. Pablo Carreno Busa | 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (7-4), 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) |
| No. 1 Serena Williams def. Anna-Lena Friedsam | 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 |
| No. 4 Petra Kvitova def. Silvia Soler-Espinosa | 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-2 |
| Julia Georges def. No. 5 Caroline Wozniacki | 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) |
| Andreea Mitu def No. 12 Karolina Pliskova | 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 |
| No. 17 Sara Errani def. Carina Witthoeft | 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 |
| No. 10 Andrea Petkovic def. Lourdes Dominguez Lino | 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 |
| Sloane Stephens def. Heather Watson | 6-2, 6-4 |
Complete scores at RolandGarros.com
No. 1 Novak Djokovic def. Gilles Muller
Top-seeded men's favorite Novak Djokovic overcame an injury scare and easily dispatched Gilles Muller in Thursday's second-round contest to advance to Round 3.
After the Serbian took control of the match early on by winning the first set 6-1, his biggest opponent seemed to be a loss of footing that resulted in an apparent injury. Djokovic took an injury timeout to assess the issue near his right groin and wasn't eager to move around at his normal pace, but he remained in control even as sets two and three proved tighter than the first.
There's no issue for Djokovic moving forward, as he expressed to tennis journalist Carole Bouchard post-match:
Djokovic's reluctance to play his normal style didn't reflect in the final match stats, which gave Djokovic a decided advantage in first-serve points won (84 percent to Muller's 67 percent). The Luxembourg native couldn't win but 22 percent of his receiving points, as Djokovic smashed 35 winners.
The top-ranked contender will have to wait to face his first-seeded opposition of the tournament, as 27th-seeded Bernard Tomic was upset by Thanasi Kokkinakis in Thursday's second-round match. Djokovic mentioned his future opponent as one for him to focus on in the next couple of days, per Roland Garros:
Djokovic may have some sizable tests ahead, not to mention a potential quarterfinal date with Rafael Nadal looming, but he's shown an ability to keep his focus straight ahead. After winning his 24th straight match Thursday in the midst of an injury scare, Djokovic continues to show he can overcome any task.
No. 6 Rafael Nadal def. Nicolas Almagro
Nadal's struggles ever since winning at Roland Garros a year ago have been impossible to fathom, but he's showing no such signs of conceding a tournament that he's dominated over the last decade.
The French Open has still only bested Nadal once in the past decade, as he continued his quest for a sixth straight title there by ousting a familiar foe in Nicolas Almagro in straight sets.
Almagro topped Nadal on clay last season to give him some much-needed confidence going in, but it didn't materialize. Nadal posted a vintage performance, keeping in front of Almagro and producing 38 unforced errors for his opponent. Many weren't all that unforced, instead being a byproduct of Nadal's control from end to end.
It continued an incredible run of form for Nadal at Roland Garros, as told by bet365:
Slowly but surely, things are moving toward an inevitable quarterfinal showdown between Nadal and Djokovic—which would mark their fourth meeting in four years at the French Open. Two of the last three directly decided the title, but the matchup will come nearly a week earlier this time.
Standing between Nadal and that matchup is a third-round meeting with Andrey Kuznetsov and a fourth-round affair against either Jack Sock or Borna Coric—two unseeded players.
No. 1 Serena Williams def. Anna-Lena Friedsam
After her good friend Wozniacki fell victim to an upset early in Thursday's action, top-seeded Serena Williams nearly followed suit in what could have capped off a brutal start to the tournament for the women's top contenders.
But after dropping the opening set to Anna-Lena Friedsam, Williams righted the ship by rattling off two straight 6-3 sets to get past the test and into Round 3.
The American's fingerprints were all over the match, but so were her characteristic spells of head-scratching play. She smashed nine aces and won 15 of 18 points at the net but committed an eye-popping 52 unforced errors and eight double-faults.
As expected, Williams was far from happy with her play but pointed to some sound advice from sister Venus Williams to keep her spirits up, per Jose Morgado of Diario Record:
Serena Williams has been far from her best so far at Roland Garros, and it nearly cost her Thursday. That doesn't bode well for her if that type of play continues, as Victoria Azarenka looms in the third round.
But as long as she finds the form that has led her to 19 Grand Slams before, Williams should have little trouble moving on.
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