it passes for Jabeur and Gauff; Ruud and Rune find themselves in the quarters

The round of 16 of the 2023 edition of Roland-Garros continued on Monday June 5. If the Tunisian Ons Jabeur and the American Coco Gauff reached the quarter-finals without incident, the game was much less simple for the Norwegian Casper Ruud and the Dane Holger Rune.

The Tunisian, 7^e world player, dominated the American Bernarda Pera (36^e) to go to the next round. In just over an hour of play, the Tunisian sidelined her rival: 6-3, 6-1. Finalist of Wimbledon and the US Open last year, Ons Jabeur, 28, is still chasing his first Major. She had never passed the round of 16 until now at the Porte d’Auteuil. In the next round, she will face the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia (14^e).

• Beatriz Haddad Maia’s marathon

The Brazilian snatched her qualification for the rest of the tournament in three hours and fifty-one minutes, the third longest match of the Open era at Roland-Garros. The 27-year-old had to wait for her fourth match point to overcome Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo (132^e) : 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 7-5.

Beatriz Haddad Maia had never exceeded 2 before^e Tour Porte d’Auteuil, nor in any other Grand Slam tournament. She also becomes the first Brazilian to reach the quarter-finals of a Major since Maria Bueno in 1968.

Unhappy finalist of the 2022 edition, the American did not tremble against the Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the round of 16: 7-5, 6-2. The 6^e world player could find in the next round her bully from last year, the Polish Iga Swiatek, world number 1, opposed this Monday to the Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko.

• Holger Rune, pushed to his limits by Francisco Cerundolo

It took five sets, three hours fifty-nine of a match and a super suffocating tie-break for the Dane, 6^e world, come to the end of the Argentinian (23^e) : 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7).

Holger Rune finds Casper Ruud in the quarter-finals of the French Open… A poster similar to that of last year. The Norwegian had won, before losing in the final against Rafael Nadal.

• Casper Ruud, three “very, very difficult” sets

The 4^e world, finalist last year, fought three sets and three hours twenty to overcome the Chilean Nicolas Jarry (35^e) : 7-6 (7-3), 7-5, 7-5. “It was three very, very difficult sets…admitted the 24-year-old Norwegian after his victory. How long would it have been if we had gone to the fifth set? » Casper Ruud, who also played in the final of the US Open in 2022, will try to find the last Parisian square on Wednesday.