8:36 p.m .: Eliminated in singles, Jessica Pegula will play the semis in doubles
No time to give way to frustration for Jessica Pegula who, a few hours after her elimination in the quarter-finals by Iga Swiatek, played the quarter-finals in doubles with her compatriot Coco Gauff. And their qualification for the semi-finals, they beat the Bondar-Minnen pair, will be enough to give him a smile.
7:46 p.m .: After two matches, Stéphane Houdet stops there,
The adventure of Roland-Garros in wheelchair tennis comes to an end after two matches for the Frenchman Stéphane Houdet, beaten by the champion of the discipline, the Japanese Shingo Kunieda (6-3, 6-2).
7:42 p.m .: Rublev picks up two sets everywhere
Andrey Rublev should not be buried. The Russian showed a much more dominating face to pick up two sets everywhere against Marin Cilic (7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3). The two players will therefore explain themselves in a decisive fifth set.
7:06 p.m .: Cilic takes the 3rd set and knocks down Rublev
Decidedly Marin Cilic got back on track by taking the 3rd set 6-4 against Andrey Rublev. The Croatian showed seriousness and concentration to win while his opponent gradually lost the thread of the match.
Rublev was particularly annoyed, swinging the balls as if his game plan was broken. The Russian also regularly turned to his clan to seek solutions, without succeeding.
6:23 p.m .: Cilic returns
Marin Cilic quickly made his aggressiveness speak to come back up to Andrey Rublev in this second set (5-7, 6-3). The Croatian was more comfortable to quickly lead 3 games to 1 at the start of the set before the Russian tried to recover, without success. Everything is restarted in this game.
5:34 p.m .: Rublev snatches the first set
Marin Cilic had started well but Andrey Rublev always stuck the Croatian before knocking him down in the last games to win this first set 7-5.
5:19 p.m .: Gabriel Debru qualified for the quarter-finals for juniors
In the junior table, the French are still well placed. The proof, the young French Gabriel Debru qualified for the quarter-finals at the expense of the Brazilian Joao Fonseca 7-5, 6-3
4:35 p.m.: Rublev and Cilic enter the court
Place in the quarter-finals gentlemen. The Russian Andrey Rublev and the Croatian Marin Cilic open the ball for this new day before the other quarter-final in the evening.
The two players entered the court and are going to warm up before starting the match.
4:11 p.m .: Swiatek rolls out and goes into the halves
It was an expeditious Iga Swiatek who walked the clay court of Philippe Chatrier on Wednesday to dominate in two sets (6-3, 6-2) the American Pegula. The favorite of Roland-Garros is more than a step away from a final and a title of which she is the big favourite.
In the semi-finals, she will face the Russian Daria Kasatkina who has not yet lost a single set in the Paris tournament.
3:37 p.m .: Swiatek off to a good start
Without flinching, the favorite of the Parisian tournament disposed of Pegula 6-3 in the first set without really being put in danger.
3:02 p.m .: Swiatek launches hostilities
Iga Swiatek, the last remaining top 10 seed in the women’s draw, challenges American Pegula for a place in the last four.
2:59 p.m .: the French pair Mladenovic-Garcia in the last four
There will be a bit of France in the semi-final at Roland-Garros since the French pair, made up of Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia qualified by beating the Chinese pair Xu-Yang 6-3, 6-3.
In the semi-finals, they will face Jelena Ostapenko and Lyudmyla Kichenok.
2:51 p.m .: A first Grand Slam semi-final for Kasatkina
In the 100% Russian duel, it was Daria Kasatkina who qualified for her first Grand Slam semi-final by beating her compatriot Veronika Kudermetova, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5).
Even more impressive, the 25-year-old Russian has not yet lost a single set at the Porte d’Auteuil even though she has conceded ten games against Kudermetova while keeping a cool head. “Keep calm, everything is fine,” she told her clan at the end of the match, although she admitted that the game had been “nerve-hard and very close”.
Former winner of the junior tournament at Porte d’Auteuil in 2014, Kasatkina had already reached the quarters in Major twice on the senior circuit, including in 2018 in the Paris tournament. That year, she had reached her best ranking (tenth), before marking time and going through what she herself described as a “dark period” which made her think for a time of stopping her career, only 21 years old, before gradually returning.
2:45 p.m .: Hello everyone and welcome to this live!
After a crazy evening on Tuesday, concluded by the snatch victory of Rafael Nadal for the semi-finals against Novak Djokovic, it’s time for the second day of the quarter-finals!