PARIS: Naomi Osaka staged a second successive Roland Garros great escape on Thursday (Friday in Manila) as fellow top seed Novak Djokovic, playing in front of his four-year-old son for the first time, and Serena Williams strolled into the last 32.

World number one Osaka, bidding to add the French Open to her US and Australian Open titles, came back from a set and 2-4 down to defeat former world No. 1e Victoria Azarenka 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.

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