Third seed Aryna Sabalenka eased past fellow Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich 7-5, 6-3 to reach the French Open third round on Wednesday. Sabalenka, the winner of the Madrid clay court title and runner-up in Stuttgart in the build-up to Roland Garros, will face Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for a place in the last 16. dj/jc