Out for Eva Lys at the French Open: The hopeful from Hamburg clearly missed out on making it into the third round for the first time at the clay court highlight in Paris.
The 24-year-old lost to the experienced Romanian Sorana Cirstea 3:6, 0:6 in her second round duel on Wednesday. For Lys, this ended the dream of the next big run at a major.
After previously mixed results on the WTA tour this year, Lys had impressed at the start in the French capital against Croatian Petra Marcinko and wanted to improve. But in the end she made too many easy mistakes to reach 18th place in the world rankings. to turn off.
The biggest Grand Slam success to date remains her sensational run to the round of 16 of the Australian Open 2025. The last German in the women’s singles is Tamara Korpatsch, who is in the third round.
Lys started strong, leading 3-1 in the first set, but then collapsed. Cirstea, who wants to end her career after the current season, did not excel, but now controlled the action and quickly pulled away in the second set. Lys could no longer resist.
