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Amanda Anisimova isn’t messing round, main Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic 4-0. The American sixteenth seed got here inside a number of video games of reaching the French Open remaining as a 17-year-old in 2019. She’s not been that deep in a grand slam since – and is wildly inconsistent – however on her day is able to pulling off some outcomes; her victories over Andreeva, Navarro, Ostapenko and Badosa this 12 months are proof of that.
Ons Jabeur, who misplaced within the first spherical yesterday, has referred to as out organisers for not scheduling ladies’s matches within the evening slot, saying: “I don’t suppose they’ve daughters.” Final 12 months all 11 prime-time matches featured males, and that’s been the case too for the primary 4 days of this 12 months’s match – tonight twelfth seed Holger Rune will face the American world No 137 Emilio Nava – so it’s hardly the competition of the day. Why couldn’t, say, Swiatek and Raducanu have performed their match this night? What’s extra baffling concerning the French Open’s stance is that Amelie Mauresmo – who does have a daughter – is the match director. You’d suppose she’d be extra eager to advertise the ladies’s sport.
The gamers are out on one other overcast day in Paris, so count on heavy situations once more. Among the many early starters: the Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen, the red-hot Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the Canadian teenage profitable machine Victoria Mboko, the French Open giantkiller Daniel Altmaier, the American former semi-finalist Amanda Anisimova, the Australian twenty fifth seed Alexei Popyrin and Argentina’s clay-court slugger Francisco Cerundolo.
In the meantime on TNT Sports activities, Chrissie Evert, Tim Henman, Laura Robson and Anne Keothavong have some essential enterprise to debate: Nike’s 2025 French Open rugby vibe vs Adidas’s neon highlighter tops. Doesn’t sound as in the event that they’re massively impressed with both tbh.
Play didn’t end till previous midnight as Gael Monfils handled his residence crowd to a comeback from two units to like down, with the 38-year-old ultimately seeing off Bolivia’s Hugo Dellien 4-6, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-1 – regardless of crashing into the promoting boards through the first set and needing a medical timeout for therapy to his hand, knee and again. The 2008 semi-finalist will face Jack Draper subsequent. Ever the showman, there have been so many highlights final evening, however right here’s one among them:
Earlier than we get going, right here’s what occurred yesterday:
Right now’s order of play on the primary courts
Court docket Philippe Chatrier (12pm begin/11am BST)
4-Jasmine Paolini (Italy) v Ajla Tomljanovic (Australia)
Fabian Marozsan (Hungary) v 2-Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
Emma Raducanu (Britain) v 5-Iga Swiatek (Poland)
Emilio Nava (US) v 10-Holger Rune (Denmark)
Court docket Suzanne Lenglen (11am/10am BST)
Emiliana Arango (Colombia) v 8-Zheng Qinwen
7-Casper Ruud (Norway) v Nuno Borges (Portugal)
31-Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (France) v Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
1-Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) v Jil Teichmann (Switzerland)
Court docket Simonne Mathieu (11am/10am BST)
8-Lorenzo Musetti (Italy) v Daniel Elahi Galan (Colombia)
Anna Bondar (Hungary) v 13-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)
Matteo Gigante (Italy) v 20-Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece)
12-Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) v Iva Jovic (US)
Preamble
Bonjour mesdames et messieurs! Pour votre plaisir aujourd’hui: defending champions Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek, who faces Emma Raducanu within the second spherical; the title favorite Aryna Sabalenka; former runners-up Jasmine Paolini, Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas; the in-form Lorenzo Musetti and Zheng Qinwen, who each deserve at the least a point out within the title dialog; 2017 champ Jelena Ostapenko; honorary Frenchwoman Elina Svitolina; plus Elena Rybakina, Holger Rune and Daniel Altmaier, who took out Taylor Fritz within the first spherical, however there are nonetheless loads of Individuals in Paris right now, together with Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe, Amanda Anisimova and Danielle Collins.
D’accord? Tres bien! L’motion begin: 11h à Paris/10am BST.