Key events
Order of play
COURT PHILIPPE CHATRIER
2.15pm start/1.15pm BST
(12) Jasmine Paolini (Italy) v (4) Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan)
Mirra Andreeva (Russia) v (2) Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)
Not before 8.15pm/7.15pm BST
(4) Alexander Zverev (Germany) v (11) Alex De Minaur (Australia)
Preamble
Bonjour le monde! Et bienvenue au jour onze de notre couverture de Roland Garros pour l’action quart de finale.
So do you want the good news or the bad news?
Let’s hit you with the bad first. The withdrawal of Novak Djokovic because of injury means that it’s a truncated day session today, with Casper Ruud getting a walkover in their quarter-final, leaving us with two rather than three matches on the schedule.
But don’t despair! We’ve still got two intriguing women’s matches between two champions of the game and two rising challengers playing in their first grand slam quarter-finals, as the 2022 Wimbledon winner Elena Rybakina faces the in-form Italian Jasmine Paolini and the reigning Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka plays the 17-year-old Russian prodigy Mirra Andreeva.
And that’s not all: because we’ve decided to bring you coverage of the night match between Alexander Zverev and Alex de Minaur as an added bonus. We’re nice like that.
Feeling better? Sure you are. And almost certainly better than Djokovic, as he nurses his knee knack, ponders losing his world No 1 ranking to Jannik Sinner and faces a race to be fit for Wimbledon and the Olympics. He really can’t catch a break this year.
Play begins at: 1.15pm BST/2.15pm Paris time
