There will be a lot of people this Monday on the Roland-Garros courts.
Day and night.
The first "night session" in the history of the tournament, starting at 9 pm at the Central, will indeed put Serena Williams in the spotlight and the cameras of Amazon.
The American, 39, who is desperately chasing a record 24th Grand Slam in four years, will face Romania's Begu.
Last fall, games had already taken place at night (in particular a Nadal-Sinner quarter-final ended at 1:26!) Due to scheduling constraints.
But before watching the American debut in Paris, other matches will be worth a look ...
Medvedev, the promised land?
We can be world No. 2 and not manage to put a foot in front of ocher. Daniil Medvedev does not like clay and it gives him back. It's simple. In four participations, the Russian has never won a match in Paris! "Do you like being in the dust like a dog?" “, He launched after his defeat in the first round in Rome. However, the Muscovite raised in Cannes will have to learn one day to get dirty and run washing machines… “I don't know if the ball has changed, or if the conditions have changed, because last year, we had balls that were not appropriate for the climate, he slipped before entering the running. I think I'm going to have a very good tournament… ”Fortunately for him, Medvedev inherited the perfect draw: Alexander Bublik. "I hate clay so much,loose the Kazakh. I can't wait for the season on this surface to end. There are those who believe that tennis consists of running from one corner of the court to the other, I am not part of it… ”
Pair.
Medvedev.
Doubles.
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Federer will know
The least we can say is that the Swiss don't have a lot of benchmarks before starting their… 19th Roland-Garros this Monday, not before 4pm, at the Central.
Three small games in sixteen months are not enough to derail an organism of almost 40 years, even that of a legend of his sport.
The fate was however rather lenient with the Balois who did not lose any of his nine duels against the Uzbek Istomin, his opponent of the day.
Ideal for a break-in.
A patch of blue sky?
The Habs will not be missing in the four corners of the six zones of the stadium. It should be taken advantage of because their number is generally reduced as a skin of sorrow even before we have had time to say "out". The Blues will have great challenges to meet, in particular Benoît Paire, who would be well inspired not to play the ghosts against the Norwegian Casper Ruud (n ° 15), recent winner in Geneva. Pierre-Hugues Herbert inherited the Italian scarecrow Jannik Sinner and Arthur Rinderknech, one of the French in form in recent months, may have a good shot against the Croatian Marin Cilic. For his probable last Roland-Garros, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will invite himself to Suzanne (Lenglen) at tea time against the Japanese Nishioka. Among the girls, to follow the debut of Caroline Garcia in front of the German Siegemund,whose victory over Mladenovic last year had caused much discussion, and the blue-white-red Cornet-Tan duel.
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The program of the day
Court Philippe-Chatrier.
From noon: Juvan (Slo) - Swiatek (Pol / n ° 8), Bublik (Kaz) - Medvedev (Rus / n ° 2).
Not before 4 p.m.: Istomin (Ouz) - Federer (Sui / n ° 8).
Not before 9 p.m.: S. Williams (EU / n ° 7) - Begu (Rou).
Court Suzanne-Lenglen.
From 11 am: Sinner (Ita / n ° 18) - HERBERT, Siegemund (All) - GARCIA, Kenin (EU / n ° 4) - Ostapenko (Let), TSONGA - Nishioka (Jap).
Court Simonne-Mathieu.
From 11 am: CORNET - TAN, Ruud (Nor / n ° 15) - PAIR, Cilic - RINDERKNECH, Muguruza (Esp / n ° 12) - Kostyuk (Ukr).
The other French:
BOURGUE - Koepfer (All), Majchrzak (Pol) - CAZAUX.
