Live updates from day nine’s play at Roland Garros And feel free to or tweet @rendellx In the other women’s singles match the game is a lot more of a battle. Sara Sorribes Tormo and Beatriz Haddad Maia are currently 6-6 in the first set! We’ll bring you the results from that as it comes in. Holger Rune’s match will follow that match on Court Suzanne Lenglen. Next up on the Phillipe-Chatrier Casper Ruud takes on Nicolás Jarry. Jabeur said post-match: “She put a lot of pressure on me, for my serve I had to work hard. I managed to win my serve when I had to. I had to pressure on her as well and ..read more

Billie Jean King battles for female equality and Arthur Ashe fights against systemic racism in this documentary series. It’s a hefty tale, joined by on-court sagas between sporting giants My earliest memories of Wimbledon fortnight are of having to let myself silently into the house after school and then commando-crawl across the sitting room on my way to the kitchen for a snack, so that I didn’t obscure a potential match point for my mother and her viewing friends. They were tense times, made tenser by the fact that it was the Björn Borg-John McEnroe era. One half of the audience would be roo ..read more

Top seed beats Italian 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to set up Tsitsipas clash Djokovic into quarter-finals with three-set win over Varillas In the early days of the journeys of Carlos Alcaraz and Lorenzo Musetti, both players took their first steps on to the ATP Challenger tour during the same period in 2019. The progress of two talented teenagers only a year apart in age naturally led to comparisons regarding their varied, well‑rounded games and of who would make it to the top. As they entered Court Philiippe-Chatrier on Sunday afternoon, both seeded in the fourth round of a grand slam tournament while in ..read more

Ukraine winner shares thumbs up with Russian after match ‘I wouldn’t dream about this when I was giving birth’ As Elina Svitolina stepped up to the baseline to contest her second match point 20 minutes after squandering her first, she sprinted on the spot, furiously swung forehands and backhands in the air and did everything to show she was ready. Nearly two hours into her fourth-round battle with Daria Kasatkina, seemingly every exchange had been long, intense and physical, but Svitolina knows few players can match her physicality. Moments later she extended her brilliant comeback as she ou ..read more

The latest scores, news and reaction from Roland Garros Coco Gauff fights back as Iga Swiatek serves double bagel Any thoughts? Email Rob Khachanov 1-6, 3-2 Sonego In the other game, Khachanov has broken Sonego to go ahead in the second set. Pavlyuchenkova 3-6 1-3 Mertens ..read more

American defeats 16-year-old Russian 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-1 Elena Rybakina out with illness, Swiatek wins 6-0, 6-0 Coco Gauff took her first steps on the ITF junior circuit as a precocious 13-year-old, competing against opponents five years her senior as her contemporaries played among each other. It was not until last summer that she faced a younger opponent, just a few months younger, on the elite women’s tour for the first time. As Gauff lined up against Mirra Andreeva on Court Suzanne Lenglen, another new experience awaited. Andreeva, the first 16-year-old to reach the third round of a grand ..read more

Updates from Saturday’s action at Roland Garros Get in touch: contact Sarah via email or Twitter Here is a round-up of yesterday’s action if you want to catch up at the start of day seven. An amazing rally between these players! It ends with Ruud not reading his return correctly and the ball smacks the net – a groan from the crowd as they wanted the rally to continue! A huge and powerful forehand from Zhang sees Ruud just watch the point be won and like that the Norwegian has been broken. Could we be on for an upset ..read more

Djokovic beats Spaniard 7-6(4), 7-6(5), 6-2 in third round World No 3: ‘You have to expect the matches get tougher’ Novak Djokovic’s confidence continues to grow as he moved into the fourth round of the French Open after defeating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-2 in a tough, hard-fought contest on Friday evening in Paris. The victory marks the Serb’s 14th consecutive place in round four here and his 88th victory at the French Open. He said: “I’m happy with where I am at the moment with my game. Can it be better? Certainly. Certainly. I still didn’t drop a set. I did ..read more

‘On Wednesday I did not feel safe in press conferences’ Belarusian world No 2 beats Kamilla Rakhimova 6-2, 6-2 Aryna Sabalenka opted out of a post-match press conference after her third-round win over Kamilla Rakhimova on Friday following a number of tense exchanges with a Ukrainian reporter about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after previous rounds here. Players are required to attend post-match press conferences if they are requested by written media, but no time was announced for Sabalenka after she had beaten Rakhimova 6-2, 6-2. Instead, a transcript of her conversation with an unnamed mem ..read more

Last remaining Australian loses in four sets to Karen Khachanov Injury-plagued player narrowly missed out forcing a fifth set Prone on his back at Roland Garros after slipping on match point in a thriller against Karen Khachanov on Friday, Thanasi Kokkinakis could have been excused for cursing. A lot. Another golden opportunity had just gone begging, this time in Paris, in part due to the excellence of the Russian and a miscalculation by Kokkinakis, but also due to bad luck ..read more