For the ninth day of Roland-Garros, Monday, the round of 16 continues. Tsitsipas fell to Holger Rune, who was the executioner of the last Frenchman in the running, Hugo Gaston. Follow the day live.
Fourth round of Roland-Garros, continuation and end. Impressive since the start of the tournament despite his lack of ease on clay, Daniil Medvedev will have the honors of the night session and the Philippe-Chatrier court, Monday May 30, during the 9th day of Roland-Garros. Iga Swiatek precedes him on the Central.
Follow the main developments of the day in our live.
19 h 09 : Iga Swiatek lost the first set
Sensation on the center court! The Chinese Qinwen Zheng, who ran after the score all the 1st round and who saved 5 set points, broke the world number 1 in the tie-break.
6:15 p.m .: Pegula awaits his opponent
Led one round to zero by Begu, Pegula turned the tide and finally won in three sets (4-6, 6-2, 6-3).
She qualifies for the quarter-finals where she will face Swiatek or the young Zheng. The world number 1 made the entry break and is already leading 3-0.
5:15 p.m .: Tsitsipas eliminated by Holger Rune
The finalist of the 2021 edition will not see the quarter-finals. Stefanos Tsitsipas lost in four sets to 19-year-old Dane Holger Rune.
The young rising star of tennis did not tremble in front of the representative of the “new gen”. Like this last game where he chained the winning services to remove the successive advantages of Tsitsipas before putting the match point on yet another fault from the Greek, far from his best level throughout the tournament.
Rune, 19, will face Norwegian Casper Ruud (8th) on Wednesday to try to climb into the last four. He is the first Dane in the quarters at Roland-Garros since 1925. He is also the first Dane to reach this stage of a Major since Jan Leschly who reached the semis at the 1967 US Open.
4:41 p.m .: Tsitsipas on the edge of the precipice
The Greek dropped the third set and is stuttering his tennis against an excellent Holger Rune (6-3). Stefanos Tsitsipas is in danger.
For her part, Irina-Camelia Begu leads a set to zero against Jessica Pegula (6-4).
16 h 05: Tsitsipas se reprend
Stefanos Tsitsipas returns to a set everywhere against Holger Rune (5-7, 6-3). The game is restarted
3:15 p.m .: Casper Ruud at the rendezvous
On the Suzanne-Lenglen, it was another Scandinavian who won. Casper Ruud defeated Pole Hubert Hurkacz in four sets (6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3). He faltered in the fourth set before recovering to wrap up the game.
“It was one of my goals for this year. I couldn’t do it in Australia (he had withdrawn due to injury before the start of the tournament) so it’s really great to be able to do it here”, s’ is delighted Ruud on the court.
The 23-year-old, whose best Major performance was a round of 16 at the Australian Open last year, is the first Norwegian in history to reach the quarter-finals at Porte d’Auteuil. He had already marked the history of his country by integrating the world top 10 last September.
He will face in the quarter-finals the winner of Rune – Tsitsipas.
3:15 p.m .: Tsitsipas concedes the first set
The finalist for the 2021 edition is in difficulty. He has just dropped the first round against the 19-year-old Dane, Holger Rune. The young tennis hopeful took the break at the best time to snatch the first set (7-5).
1:52 p.m .: Russian duel in the quarter-finals
Dominated in the first set, Veronika Kudermetova turned things around against Madison Keys to join her compatriot Daria Kasatkina in the quarter-finals.
The match between Tsitsipas and Rune will be able to start on the Central.
12:50 p.m.: Daria Kasatkina impresses
Russian Daria Kasatkina will return to the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time since 2018, after eliminating Italian Camila Giorgi (30th), 6-2, 6-2. The player, ranked 20th in the world, has still not lost a set since the start of the tournament and even fewer games in her first 3 rounds than the boss of the circuit and big favorite Porte d’Auteuil Iga Swiatek (10 against 12) .
This time again, she will have left only crumbs (four games) to her opponent of the day who had never reached the second round in Paris but had achieved a very good performance in the previous round by leaving the 7th world Aryna Sabalenka. Asked after the match about her strategy in the tournament, Katsakina was very clear: “Make zero mistakes!”
“I like playing on clay. I was a bit nervous before coming here, but now I feel good and I’m happy with the game I’m producing.”
To try to reach the semi-finals of a Major for the first time at 25, Katsakina will have to get rid of the winner of the match between her compatriot Veronika Kudermetova (29th) and the American Madison Keys (22nd).
In 2018, the Russian had reached the quarters in quick succession at Roland-Garros and then at Wimbledon. Since then, she had not once reached the second week in a Grand Slam. But this year, she arrived at Porte d’Auteuil on a fine series of 9 victories in her last 11 games, notably reaching the semi-finals in Rome.
“In 2018, I was not in place technically and tactically, since then I have learned a lot and this time, I do not intend to reproduce the same errors”, she warned.
12 p.m.: on the Central too, let’s go!
The match between the American Madison Keys and the Russian Veronika Kudermetova started on the Philippe-Chatrier.
On the Suzanne-Lenglen, Daria Kasatkina won the first set (6-2).
11 a.m.: the match begins on the Suzanne-Lenglen court
The Russian Daria Kasatkina (seed number 20) challenges the Italian Camila Giorgi for a place in the quarterfinals.
