Wang crashes out to end Chinese singles run at Roland Garros

World No. 74 Wang Qiang, the sole Chinese remaining in the French Open women's singles main draw, was beaten in straight sets by No. 12 seed Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain at Roland Garros on Thursday.

The Asian Games champion, 24, managed to pull back from four games down in the second set but failed to recover when trailing 5-3 before giving up her own serve game to lose 6-1, 6-3 in one hour and five minutes.

"I felt quite uncomfortable against such a high level clay-court expert like Navarro," said Wang after the second round match.

"She's the one having control the whole match and forced a lot of errors from me, especially in the first set," she added.

It's been Wang's second campaign in French Open's main draw and her first time making the singles second round.

Also on Thursday, 69th-ranked Zhang Shuai, who paired up with Australia's Samantha Stosur one day after being ousted by the Australian in the singles, packed up after losing 6-1, 6-4 to Ekaterina Makarova/Elena Vesnina.

Another Chinese singles player Zheng Saisai suffered the first-round exit two days ago when the 22-year-old was beaten 6-3, 6-1 by the 22nd seed Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia.

There leaves only a mixed doubles schedule in sight envolving a Chinese player Wang Yafan, and two Chinese pairs survived in the women's doubles, namely Australian Open semifinalists Xu Yifan/Zheng Saisai and Liang Chen/Wang Yafan. Endit