China’s Li Na reached the French Open third round on Thursday, but admitted she was clueless about Silvia Soler-Espinosa, the girl she had just beaten. “It’s tough. It was an opponent who I had never seen before. Also, I asked many players for information, but got back zero,” said the Chinese sixth seed after her 6-4, 7-5 win over a woman ranked 158 in the world. “Nobody knew what this player looked like. So at the beginning of the match, I was a little bit surprised.” Li will face Romania’s Sorana Cirstea, a quarter-finalist in 2009, for a place in the last 16.
