While waiting for Tuesday evening and the quarter-final between the two legends Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, the day of this Monday May 3 completed the round of 16.
It was a Monday without a brilliant display, but with good matches for connoisseurs of the little yellow ball.
The performance: Holger Rune
The outgoing finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas, 4th in the world, was eliminated in the round of 16 on Monday 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, by the young Danish hopeful Holger Rune (40th) who reached for the first time the quarters of a Grand Slam tournament.
Rune, 19, will face Norwegian Casper Ruud (8th) on Wednesday to try to climb into the last four.
He is the first Dane to reach this stage of a Major since Jan Leschly, semi-finalist at the 1967 US Open.
Player: Iga Swiatek
The world N.1 and big favorite Iga Swiatek will be there for the quarter-finals?
but she dropped her first set in over a month against the Chinese Qinwen Zheng (74th), finally beaten 6-7 (7/5), 6-0, 6-2 in the round of 16.
With this victory, the 20-year-old Polish wins her 32nd win in a row, which makes her the third player to chain the most victories in the 21st century behind the Williams sisters (Venus 35, Serena 34) and tied with Justine Henin.
Zheng, who is taking part in his very first Roland-Garros at 19, however gave the winner of the Porte d'Auteuil tournament in 2020 a hard time. "I'm really happy to have managed to come back to the game. after a particularly frustrating first set,” said the Pole after her victory, paying tribute to her opponent:
“She played amazing tennis, I was really surprised by some of her shots.
So I'm really happy to still be in the tournament.
In the next round, Swiatek will meet American Jessica Pegula, 11th in the world and the second highest ranked player still in the tournament after her.
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Abandonment: Jannik Sinner
Andrey Rublev, 7th in the world, qualified for the quarter-finals by benefiting from the abandonment of the Italian Jannik Sinner (12th), injured in his left knee, when the score was 1-6, 6-4, 2-0 in favor of the Russian.
In the next round, Rublev will face his compatriot Daniil Medvedev (2nd) or the Croatian Marin Cilic (23rd), who beat him in the 3rd round of the Australian Open in January.
The 24-year-old Russian has already reached the quarter-finals of Majors four times, without ever surpassing them: Australia 2021, Roland-Garros 2020, US Open 2020 and 2017. This year, he won the clay-court tournament in Belgrade by beating the world No.1 Novak Djokovic in the final, as well as Dubai (hard) and Marseille (hard indoors).
The number: 1
The Norwegian Casper Ruud, 8th in the world, by dominating the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (13th), 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 climbed for the first time in the quarter-finals of a tournament of the Grand Slam.
“That was one of my goals for this year.
I couldn't do it in Australia (he withdrew due to injury before the start of the tournament) so it's really great to be able to do it here,” said Ruud on the court.
The 23-year-old, whose best performance in a Major was a round of 16 at the Australian Open last year, is also 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.
In the next round, Ruud, son of former world No.39 Christian Ruud who is now his coach,
The phrase :
"It doesn't worry me.
Now that they beat me, I want to give them back”?
Stefanos Tsitsipas, beaten in Barcelona by Alcaraz and at Roland-Garros for Rune.
The main results of the round of 16.
Men: Ruud (Nor./N.8) b.
Hurkacz (Pol/N.12) 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3;
Rune (Dan) b.
Tsitsipas (Gre/N.4) 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4;
Rublev (Rus/N.7) b.
Sinner (Ita/N.11) 1-6, 6-4, 2-0 (abandoned)
Women: Swiatek (Pol/N.1) b.
Qinwen (Ch.) 6-7 (5/7), 6-0, 6-2
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