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ROLAND GARROS – Of the six women in qualifying at Roland Garros this year, four survived to play the second round.

And that included all three who played on Monday.

Rebecca Marino and Kayla Cross bowed out in the first round on Tuesday.

As the scheduling gods will have it, three of them will be first up at 10 a.m.

Marina Stakusic and Carson Branstine will be on adjacent courts, while Bianca Andreescu gets fun Court 14, all the way at the other end of the site.

Later Wednesday, Victoria Mboko will also try to get to the final round.

Here’s a look.

Andreescu v Hibino

In the qualifying for the first time since the 2019 Australian Open, Andreescu got a great first-round draw in the vastly inexperienced Yao XinXin, who was making her Grand Slam debut and whose paltry WTA-level experience has all been at tournaments in China.

And that, on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

It was all a little too much for the 21-year-old lefty. Conversely, Andreescu unveiled her full clay-court game. The kid didn’t stand a chance.

Here’s what it looked like.

In Hibino, Andreescu gets a far more experienced opponent.

Hibino, 30, and Andreescu have never met. But matchup-wise, she won’t offer the type of pace that will prevent Andreescu from imposing her game.

The winner will meet wither No. 12 seed Ella Seidel of Germany, or Panna Udvardy of Hungary.

Branstine v Makarova

Carson Branstine took a winding road to get to the show, after being the No. 4 junior in the world during a period that coincided with Andreescu’s time – the two teamed up to win the Roland Garros junior together.

In her first round, she met American Whitney Oswuigwe, whom she said she’s known “her whole life” from going through the U.S. junior circuit together.

The two had met often in the juniors; Oswuigwe is a former No. 1 junior and junior Roland Garros champion.

Here’s what that 6-4, 6-2 victory looked like.

In the second round on Wednesday, Branstine faces another former junior Roland Garros champion in Rebeka Masarova.

Marasova defeated a 14-year-old Amanda Anisimova in that 2017 final.

Another tall one at 6-foot-1, she represented Switzerland, changed her representation to Spain and now is back on Swiss soil, so to speak. She got as high as No. 62 in the WTA rankings before falling back.

The winner will wither play Tamara Korpatsch or Branstine’s countrywoman, Marina Stakusic.

Stakusic v Korpatsch

Stakusic, who reached the final round of qualifying a year before before bowing out, was a bit nervous and frustrated at the start of her match against 31-year-old veteran Lauren Davis.

But she rallied well, posting a 6-4, 6-4 victory.

In Korpatsch, who turned 30 some 10 days ago, she faces a player who reachede a career high of No. 71 (we’d tell you when that was, but the “revamped” WTA website is missing pretty much all basic information at the moment).

She is coming straight off a win at a $60K ITF (Where was it located and what were the dates? See above) and comes in with some confidence.

She had a tough time against American Louisa Chirico in the first round. But Chirico was seen by the medical staff early in the third set, looking under the weather, and Korpatsch got through.

Mboko vs. Von Deichmann

Victoria Mboko was another debutant this year, coming in with a season with MUCH winning and getting her first taste of the big events.

She battled a few nerves in her first match against the very capable SInja Kraus on Tuesday. But once she settled in, she got through routinely.

She will play Kathinka Von Deichmann, a rare player from Liechtenstein who blew away Mboko’s countrywoman Rebecca Marino on the very next court on Tuesday.

Von Deichmann’s slicee backhand and lack of pace was about the worst matchup possible for Marino. But it might not have the same effect on Mboko, although she will have to adjust her game a bit to the rather unique opponent.

The winner will play either No. 20 seed Maja Chwalinska or Kaja Kuvan, a solid player who is on an injury-protected ranking.