Defending champion Garbine Muguruza has advanced to the fourth round of the French Open by beating Yulia Putintseva on Friday.
Muguruza's 7-5 6-2 win over Kazakh Putintseva was greeted warmly by fans on the Philippe Chatrier court.
The fourth-seeded Muguruza was pushed in the first set but proved too strong to win in straight sets.
The Spaniard will meet 13th-seeded local hope Kristina Mladenovic or American Shelby Rogers in the next round.
"The toughest victories give you self-confidence, a successful feeling out there," Muguruza said. "It's important that none of my three matches have been easy at all.
"I'm happy I went out there without kind of fear. I wanted the match. I tried to just do what I had to do and keep that during the whole match.
"I was not thinking a lot, I try to go out there and block everything and just thinking what I have to do to win."
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko was the first woman through to the last 16, needing just over an hour to dispatch Lesia Tsurenko 6-1 6-4.
Latvian Ostapenko will play either 23rd-seeded Australian Samantha Stosur or American Bethanie Mattek-Sands for a place in the quarter-finals.
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