LIVE Roland Garros | Swiatek at the expense of compatriot to fourth round in Paris | Sport

Iga Swiatek (24) is in the fourth round. The Polish tennis star defeated her compatriot who was ten years older Magda Linette on the clay of Paris in two sets: 6-4 6-4. Swiatek will now face Ukrainian Marta Kostjoek for a place in the quarter-finals.

Swiatek reached the semi-finals in Paris last year. She previously won the Grand Slam tournament four times. Swiatek suffered a setback last year and lost her leading position in the world rankings. She is now number 3 in the world.

Ben Shelton is eliminated in the second round. The fourth-seeded American lost to the Belgian Raphaël Collignon in three sets: 6-4 7-5 6-4.

Shelton reached the fourth round on the clay in Paris last year, but failed in the Belgian number 62 in the world rankings an opponent who took his chances. In all three sets he only needed a break to win the set.

24-year-old Collignon, who for the first time at the main tournament of Roland Garros is active, struck on the few breakpoints and did not give any away himself. After just over 2 hours he used his first match point.

Aryna Sabalenka has reached the third round at Roland Garros. The world number 1 from Belarus won in two sets against Elsa Jacquemot from France: 7-5 6-2.

Against Jacquemot, number 67 in the world rankings, Sabalenka surrendered her serve once in the first set. She won the Frenchwoman twice. In the second set, she survived three break points in her first game and won her opponent’s serve twice. After handing in her own serve again, she immediately broke back and she used her first match point.

Sabalenka is still chasing her first title in Paris. Last year she lost the final to the American Coco Gauff. In the third round she will face the Russian native Daria Kasatkinawho plays for Australia.

Jannik Sinner is out. Cerundolo completes the verdict with a service break: 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1.

Sinner seems to be steadily gaining strength again, he creates two break opportunities, but they remain unused because his Argentinian opponent remains extremely cool under pressure: 5-1.

He wins his own service game, although it is not at all easy: 4-1 in the fifth set. The deficit is still a double break.

Although things seem to be getting a little better, Sinner is still constantly lagging behind. Cerundolo cannot be fooled: 4-0.

He is behind by a double break in the fifth and deciding set: 3-0. His winning streak of thirty games is in danger of coming to an end. The Italian multiple winner is still unable to move properly.

Will the curtain fall for Jannik Sinner? The number one in the world loses the fourth set by no less than 6-1.

The Italian is not yet on the mend. He is down 4-1 in the second set. A mega stunt becomes more real by the minute.

The world number 1 seemed to advance without any problems in his second round match against Juan Manuel Cerúndolo. But suddenly he was overcome by the heat. With a 2-0, 5-2 lead, he was allowed to serve twice for the match, but from that moment on he lost seventeen points in a row. Cerúndolo then won the third set with a break in the twelfth game: 7-5.

Score: 6-2, 6-3, 5-7. Sinner still leads 2-1 in sets, but he clearly has difficulty moving. Will we soon get a thunderous surprise on the Parisian gravel?”

Alexander Zverev has reached the third round of Roland Garros without losing a set. The second seeded German tennis player defeated the Czech Tomás Machác: 6-4 6-2 6-2. He beat Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi in the first round: 6-3 6-4 6-2.

The 29-year-old Zverev is still waiting for his first Grand Slam title. In 2024 he lost the final to Carlos Alcaraz at Roland Garros. The injured Spaniard is not there now. Zverev also reached the semi-finals three times and the quarter-finals three times in Paris.

In the third round, Zverev meets Frenchman Quentin Halys, number 90 in the world rankings.

Novak Djokovic has reached the third round at Roland Garros. The 39-year-old Serbian defeated Frenchman Valentin Royer in four sets: 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (7), 6-3. For a long time, Djokovic seemed to be on his way to a victory in three sets, but thanks to a strong tiebreak, the French tennis player forced a fourth set.

Djokovic, the global number 4, forced a break in the first set at 3-2 in games and then took the set. The 24-year-old Royer immediately lost his first serve in the second set, did so again later and also lost the second set.

Royer took the third set an exciting tiebreak. The number 74 in the world rankings came back from a 3-0 deficit in the tiebreak and won 9-7, after Djokovic had earlier lost a match point. In the fourth set, the experienced Serbian used his fifth hard-fought match point on his own serve in a spectacular final game.

Jelena Rybakina has already been eliminated in the second round of Roland Garros. The second-seeded player from Kazakhstan was surprised by the Ukrainian Yulia Starodoebtseva: 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4).

Rybakina won the Australian Open earlier this year and also won the clay court tournament in Stuttgart. She came back from a 3-0 deficit against Starodoebtseva in the third and deciding set. But she still had to give up in the tiebreak.

Starodoebtseva is 55th in the world rankings.

Jessica Pegula is eliminated in the first round. The fifth seed American lost in the first round to Kimberly Birrell (WTA-83) from Australia in three sets: 6-1 3-6 3-6.

32-year-old Pegula participated in Paris for the seventh time. Last year she reached the fourth round. Earlier this year she reached the last four at the Australian Open. In 2024 she was a finalist at the US Open.

The French Lois Boisson was able to pull off her stunt last year at Roland Garros, when she reached the semi-finals, do not repeat. She lost to Anna Kalinskaya from Russia in straight sets: 2-6 2-6.

Jannik Sinner reached the second round without any problems. The number 1 in the world counted on the Court Philippe-Chatrier straight sets ends with the French wildcard holder Clement Tabur (ATP-171): 6-1 6-3 6-4. The match lasted just over two hours.

Sinner is aiming for his first title at Roland Garros. Last year he lost in the final after a thrilling five-setter to Carlos Alcaraz. The Spaniard is missing this year due to an injury. Sinner will face the Argentinian in the second round Juan Manuel Cerundolo, number 56 in the world.

In the months before Roland Garros, Sinner won the masters tournaments of Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome on clay and was already the best in Indian Wells and Miami. The 24-year-old Italian is, especially after Alcaraz’s withdrawal, the absolute favorite for the title in Paris. It’s it only Grand Slam tournament that he has not yet won.

Demi Schuurs has reached the second round in women’s doubles. With her Australian doubles partner Ellen Perez the 32-year-old Dutch woman won on the clay in Paris in two sets against the British Katie Boulter and the Kazakh Yulia Putintseva: 6-1 7-6 (5).

Schuurs is with Perez placed seventh in Paris. In the second round they will face the winners of the match between the American duo Sofia Kenin/Ashlyn Krueger and the Italian Sara Errani and the Austrian Lilli Tagger.

Robin Haase, Sem Verbeek and Jean-Julien Rojer failed to reach the second round of the men’s doubles with their doubles partners.

Moise Kouame (17) has provided a surprise at Roland Garros. The French teenager, now 318th in the world rankings, was too strong for Marin Cilic in three sets, making him the youngest match winner at a Grand Slam tournament since 2009: 7-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Kouame is known as a great talent, last March he reached the second round of the Miami masters tournament. Cilic, the man he defeated in Paris, won the US Open in 2014. The 37-year-old Croat reached the semi-finals at Roland Garros in 2022.

Daniil Medvedev, the number eight in the world, was eliminated in the first round of Roland Garros. The Russian defeated Australian wildcard player Adam Walton in five sets: 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4.

Medvedev usually has a lot of difficulty on the clay, which was again evident. The 2021 US Open winner achieved his best result in Paris that same year, then he reached the quarter-finals.

In the second round Walton plays against the American Zachary Svajdawho in turn pulled off a surprise by eliminating Alexei Popyrin.

Aryna Sabalenka has started well at Roland Garros, the Grand Slam tournament that the Belarusian number 1 in the world has never won. In the first round she was too strong for the Spanish Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro, number 50 in the world rankings, in two sets: 6-4 6-2.

Sabalenka (28) quickly took a 4-0 lead in the first set. The Spanish Maneiro came back to 5-4, but had to leave the set to Sabalenka.

The four-time Grand Slam winner also took a large lead in the second set (5-0), after which she decided the match in her favor after an hour and fifteen minutes (6-2).

Sabalenka lost the final in the French capital last year of the American Coco Gauff, the global number 4. In the second round she will meet the Czech Linda Fruhvirtova or the French Elsa Jacquemot.