So with that, I’ll be off. Here’s something from Kevin Mitchell about Serena Williams. Until next time!
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As I suspected, there will be no more play today. Goffin and Monfils will finish their match on Suzanne Lenglen tomorrow, after Kyle Edmund’s game, but I don’t have a fully updated order of play yet.
Play has been cancelled for today.#RG18
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 1, 2018
I’m watching live pictures from Philippe Chatrier, where it looks very wet, and very empty. The chances of action resuming in five minutes seem extremely remote.
An update: there might be play, but not for at least 15 minutes.
There will be no play before 8pm local time.#RG18 pic.twitter.com/A4LHiruazn
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 1, 2018
Here’s a short film (in French) about the French Open’s weather-watching hub, where they will currently been looking at various radar images and wondering what to do about them:
Inside RG #3 - The PC Meteo : Full story >> https://t.co/5I3XRj4CAh
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 1, 2018
On vous emmène dans les coulisses du PC Météo ! #RG18 pic.twitter.com/vKacqmkq5J
Not a good sign: the covers have just gone on.
It looks like the rain has already stopped, so hopefully we’ll get some more action soon. While you wait, here’s Kevin Mitchell’s report on Sascha Zverev’s win:
Tomorrow’s order of play is out, with Kyle Edmund first up on Suzanne Lenglen (though this could change if any of today’s matches remain uncompleted). Here are the main show courts:
Court Philippe-Chatrier
Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) [3] v Samantha Stosur (AUS)
Maria Sharapova (RUS) [28] v Karolina Pliskova (CZE) [6]
Rafael Nadal (ESP) [1] v Richard Gasquet (FRA) [27]
Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) [31] v Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) [5]
Court Suzanne-Lenglen
Fabio Fognini (ITA) [18] v Kyle Edmund (GBR) [16]
Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) v Caroline Garcia (FRA) [7]
Julia Goerges (GER) [11] v Serena Williams (USA)
John Isner (USA) [9] v Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)
Court 1
Mischa Zverev (GER) v Kevin Anderson (RSA) [6]
Marin Cilic (CRO) [3] v Steve Johnson (USA)
Angelique Kerber (GER) [12] v Kiki Bertens (NED) [18]
Timea Babos (HUN) & Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) [1] v Nao Hibino (JPN) & Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO)
Court 18
Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) [19] v Lesia Tsurenko (UKR)
Diego Schwartzman (ARG) [11] v Borna Coric (CRO)
Simona Halep (ROU) [1] v Andrea Petkovic (GER)
Weather latest: it’s raining again, and the players have been told to leave the court. Two previous stoppages today were very brief, and the players stayed out throughout.
Jamie Murray is in doubles action on Court 3 – he and Bruno Soares are up against Maximo Gonzalez and Nicolas Jarry, and it’s 1-1 in the first.
Monfils holds to stay in the third set. He is such a fun player to watch when things are going right for him, athletic and inventive, and the crowd in his native Paris are being predictably supportive.
These are two interesting matches to watch simultaneously. Goffin is playing magnificently at the moment and holds to love, with the help of a net cord on the final point. Meanwhile Khachanov holds to love to take a two-set lead, 6-3, 7-5!
Monfils, having expended a lot of energy turning a 0-5 second-set deficit into an eventual 3-6 loss, is promptly broken in the first game of the third.
Khachanov takes his sixth break point and from 2-5 down leads 6-5 and will serve for a two-set lead!
Goffin holds serve and wins the second set 6-3 to level the match! Meanwhile, Pouille has saved another break point and is back at deuce.
Pouille’s 5-2 second-set lead over Karchanov has disappeared in double-quick time. It’s now 5-5, and Pouille is clinging on in a long, tough service game – he has so far saved three break points, missed a game point of his own, and it’s back at deuce.
Another hold, and it’s 5-3. There was also a fabulous point-winning shot from Monfils, which can only be described as a spinning no-look backhand drop-shot.
And now he’s broken back! Now he only needs to hold serve, break again and hold serve again and it’ll be 5-5.
Monfils had to save a break point, but he has finally won a game in the second set. He is now just 1-5 down.
Monfils appears to be having a set off. He’s now 5-0 down, and Goffin is on the verge of levelling the match.
Dominic Thiem beats Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2
Thiem has lost a couple of sets in his three games so far, but by small margins and he’s looking strong. He eases past Berrettini in the end, and next up for him is Kei Nishikori
It’s a tale of two reversals of fortune on the main show courts, as the two players who lost the first sets go a break up in the second. Pouille now leads Khachanov 5-2; Goffin is 3-0 up against Monfils.
Monfils wins the first set in the tie break, through a mix of bludgeon and tactical baseline play. A thrilling winner down the line set up two set points, though Goffin wins the next and Monfils tries to wallop a winner, but misses. But then it’s Goffin’s turn to miss as he booms a long one. A hell of a roar from Monfils to celebrate that, but possibly a long way to go in this match.
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Gaël Monfils and David Goffin are into a tie break in the first set after Goffin held his serve.
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Lucas Pouille still hasn’t recovered from his bad start – the French No15 seed has just lost the fist set 6-1 to Karen Khachanov.
Over on Court 1, Dominic Thiem has just won the third set against Matteo Berrettini, and leads 6-3, 6-7, 6-3.
Marco Ceccinato beats Pablo Carreno Busta 2-6, 7-6, 6-3, 6-1
Ceccinato wins it with an ace – another ball Carreno Busta barely moves towards – and the world No72 is in round four, while the No10 seed crashes out!
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Carreno Busta appears to have given up. Cecchinato is playing brilliantly, but at this point his opponent is barely trying.
Cecchinato holds, and then forces another break point. He is hitting the ball viciously, but then he hits an imperfect forehand and chooses that moment to go to the net; Carreno Busta boshes the ball at his ankles and he can’t get it back. It’s a temporary respite, as the Italian wins the match with an excellently angled forehand. He’s 5-1 up in the fourth set, and serving for the match.
Now Cecchinato has broken in the fourth set, leaving Carreno Busta two sets down, 1-3 down and fighting to stay in the match.
Things aren’t getting any better for Pablo Carreno Busta. The 10th seed was unlucky to lose the second set against Marco Cecchinato on a tie break, but has followed that up by losing the third 6-3.
Lucas Pouille has had a wobbly start against Karen Khachanov – he’s 0-3 down in the first, though he has only been broken once.
Anna Kessel wrote this today about Serena Williams and motherhood:
But Goffin breaks straight back. 1-2 in the first set.
Monfils has made a fine start against Goffin, going 2-0 up with the Belgian surrendering his first service game with a double fault.
Matteo Berrettini has taken the second set against Dominic Thiem on Court 1, winning the tie-break 7-5.
Next up on the show courts comes a French double bill: Lucas Pouille against Karen Khachanov on Chatrier; David Goffin against Gael Monfils on Lenglen.
On ourt 18, Marco Cecchinato has just taken the second set against the 10th seed, Pablo Carreno Busta, on a tie break. It’s 1-1 and all to play for. This is already Cecchinato’s finest Grand Slam performance, having previously been famous largely for being found guilty, and then acquitted, of match fixing in 2016.
The Williams sisters storm into round three of the doubles
They blitz past Sara Errani and Kirsten Flipkens 6-4, 6-2 on Court 7.
Caroline Wozniacki beats Pauline Parmentier 6-0, 6-3
The comeback is over! Wozniacki is taken to deuce in the final game, but that’s as far as Parmentier can push her. What a turnaround, though – Parmentier won 29 points and hit 11 winners in the second set, having won six points and hit just two winners in the first. When her back was against the wall, she started fighting.
Novak Djokovic beats Robert Bautista Agut 6-4, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2
The 20th seed improved as the match wore on, and was excellent in the last couple of sets. He was pushed all the way, though – that was a quality match.
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Djokovic takes a 15-40 lead on Bautista Agut’s serve, and has two match points.
Parmentier has won a third game on the spin, and is just a break and then a hold away from being level in the second set!
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And he takes it! He’s 5-1 up in the fourth set and will serve for the match, rain or no rain.
A break point for Djokovic, who is already 4-1 up in the fourth set and could pretty much wrap this up now.
So, too, is the rain, which has restarted.
Parmentier has just broken Wozniacki! She’s only 2-5 down now in the second set, and the comeback is on!
The Williams sisters are in doubles action on Court 7, and have won the first set against Sara Errani and Kirsten Flipkens 6-4. The second set is going with serve, with the Williamses leading 3-2.
Pauline Parmentier wins a game!
She’s done it! She needed three game points, but finally Caroline Wozniacki hits into the net, and Parmentier is on the board at 0-6, 1-5!
It’s game point to Parmentier! This could happen!
Parmentier is serving to stay at the match, at 0-6, 0-5, 0-15. Can she get on the board at the last?
Djokovic leads 3-0 in the fourth set, and if Bautista Agut fails to hold now it’s surely all over.
Dominic Thiem lost the first two games against Matteo Berrettini but only one of seven since then, and thus has just taken the first set 6-3.
Wozniacki has won six of the first seven points since the rain break and is now 4-0 up in the second set and well on her way to inflicting the dreaded double bagel on her opponent.
Djokovic goes 2-0 up in the fourth set, Bautista Agut surrendering his serve with a feeble drop shot that never looks like clearing the net, and doesn’t.
The brief shower having abated, on Suzanne Lenglen Djokovic and Bautista Agut have been cleared to leave their umbrellas and get back to action.
Wozniacki is 2-0 up in her second set against Parmentier but is at least having to play in this set. Indeed, she’s currently serving and the game is poised at deuce.
Thiem and Berrettini are still going, at 3-3 in the first set. Everyone else appears to have stopped.
Play has been suspended, but the players have not yet left the court.
The skies have been grey and threatening all day, and now it has started to rain.
Djokovic wins the third set, and leads 6-4, 6-7, 7-6! At 5-2 a Djokovic backhand hits the top of the net. With Bautista Agut stranded behind the baseline, the ball loops up and drops on the other side of the net and Djokovic has four set points. The first is saved, then another Djokovic backhand hits the top of the net, and this one lands on his own side. But he wins the next point, and appears to be in control once again.
The Djokovic match is really quite gripping, with both players showing brilliance and fragility along the way. After a couple of holds, the third set will be decided by a tie break.
Parmentier wins the first point of the second set and punches the air while the crowd roars their approval. Enjoy it while you can …
Parmentier did beat Wozniacki the last time they played (kind of; Wozniacki retired at a set all), but a repeat looks unlikely – the No2 seed has just won the first set 6-0, losing just six points along the way.
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Djokovic holds this time, thanks in part to Bautista Agut’s decision not to put the ball into the empty half of the court after a poor drop shot at 30-30 and instead lift it straight back to Djokovic, who put it away. It’s 5-5.
Djokovic has broken back again, and now trails 5-4 in the third set against Bautista Agut. Six of those nine games have been breaks of serve.
Caroline Wozniacki has broken poor Pauline Parmentier twice already, and leads 4-0 in the first.
Next up on Court No1 is a first ever meeting between the Austrian seventh seed, Dominic Thiem, and the unheralded Italian world No96, Matteo Berrettini, who has so far come through two four-setters, the latest against Ernests Gulbis.
Djokovic finds himself 0-40 down. His first serve is called long, but the umpire overrules. His second first serve is good, but not as good as the backhand return, which is thumped down the line and out of reach. Bautista Agut breaks, and will serve for the third set!
Mihaela Buzarnescu beats Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-5
One match point, against serve, is all Buzarnescu needs as she steamrollers past the No4 seed, who needlessly netted a backhand to give the game away!
Djokovic has broken right back again, with the help of a crosscourt drop shot at 30-40, so it’s back on serve in the third set, which Bautista Agut leads 3-2.
Elina Svitolina has just served for the second set against Mihaela Buzarnescu, and has been broken. It’s 5-5, Buzarnescu having won the opener.
Novak Djokovic has just been broken by Bautista Agut, who leads 3-1 in the third set. The highlight of the game was an inch-perfect crosscourt forehand from the Spaniard that just caught the line and set up two break points, the second of which he took.
Caroline Wozniacki, the No2 seed, has just been introduced on Philippe Chatrier. She’s up against the 32-year-old French world No74, Pauline Parmentier.
By the way, France’s Gilles Simon is out. Kei Nishikori won 6-3 6-1 6-3 and Barbora Strycova, the 26th seed, has beaten Czech compatriot Katerina Siniakova 6-2 6-3. Ok, passing back to Simon now. Let’s see if Djokovic has calmed down at all.
That was Zverev’s first defeat of a top 50 player in eight attempts at grand slam tournaments. His talent is clear, but so many rough edges to smooth. This match, though, might one day be recalled as an important part of his development.
Zverev beats Dzumhur 2-6 6-3 6-4 6-7 7-5
At last, the number two seed gets through, and having faced down a match point, too. Dzumhur’s bottle went, quite frankly, and the German 21-year-old rode his luck a little. OK, a lot.
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Zverev breaks Dzumhur to go 6-5 up. Goes to the net to win the game with a cross-court volley and celebrates with a flourish. Can he serve this out?
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Zverev rode out his service game but only just. Dzumhur even had a match point, but it’s now 5-5.
1-1 in sets! Djokovic shattered his racquet in rage after a potential winner smashed into the net. Bautista Agut held his nerve to win the tie-break 8-6. Djok is seething with the gods, but mostly himself and will get a warning for his conduct.
Bautista Agut arrives at two set points, with Djokovic again scrabbling and groaning around the court. An ace gets him there, though the first is blown, and then Djokovic levels it with his own ace. 6-6 in the tie break.
Djokovic and Bautista Agut are into a tie-break in the second set.
Separating Dzhumur and Zverev is going to be tough, and probably a long old process.. The Bosnian surged ahead of his German rival and had game point. He then missed that, and faced a break point which he rode out with a sweeping pass beyond a scrabbling Zverev before then securing the game. 5-4 in the final set. Will Zverev be so solid on his serve?
Djokovic breaks Bautista Agut after a deuce and will serve out the second set.
Dzumhur breaks back and to love! Zverev looked as if he had given up the ghost on his serve. 4-4 in the deciding set.
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France’s Gilles Simon is close to the edge himself here, having lost the first two sets to Kei Nishikori. At 2-2, it’s going with serve in third.
Dzumhur takes Zverev to deuce but the second seed holds his serve for 4-2. Having been close to disaster in that fourth set, he is nearing victory.
Set point saved! Bautista Agut is a powerful opponent and making Djokovic make plenty of slides across the court. A break and set point is forced on his opponent’s serve with a magical, thrashing winner. Djokovic attempts another, but is wide of the line when the second set beckoned. A reluctance to come forward is giving Bautista Agut chance to stay in points and he levels at 5-5.
Zverev took that last service game to go 3-1 up, his winning shot greeted by some racquet abuse from Dzhumhur, but the Bosnian held his nerve unexpectedly to serve out the next game. It’s 3-2 at the moment.
The Djokovic match just got a bit more interesting. He’s been broken back by Bautista Agut and it’s at 5-4, with the Argentine to serve.
Afternoon, all. John Brewin here, stepping in for Simon as heads for a much deserved pitcher of Pimm’s. I’ll be sipping Robinson’s Barley Water.
And then he’s broken to love! This is just wild inconsistency from Dzumhur, who can’t decide whether he’s brilliant or useless but seems to be edging towards the latter conclusion.
And then he breaks back! Another remarkable swing in fortunes, as Dzumhur ends a prolonged exchange of crosscourt backhands with a powerful forehand down the line to make it 1-1 in the fifth against Zverev!
Dzumhur’s funk looks like it might be terminal – he’s been broken by Zverev in the first game of the decider.
On Court One the 30-year-old Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu, who ended 2014 with a ranking of 891 and has very gradually worked her way upwards, breaking into the top 100 for the first time last year, is leading Elina Svitolina 3-2 – with a break – in the first set. This is already the best ever Grand Slam performance for both players, so they’re both in uncharted territory.
Kei Nishikori is making short work of Gilles Simon: He won the first set 6-3 and is now 3-0 up in the second with two breaks of serve in the bank.
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Alex Zverev levels the match at two sets apiece! Damir Dzumhur’s game just fell apart there, with victory in his grasp. Between coming out to serve for victory and sitting down at two sets apiece he won only three points, all of them in the tiebreak. Into a decider we go.
Somehow Dzumhur has got to pick himself up after that disappointment, as he’s still but a tiebreak away from victory.
Djokovic has now won four games on the spin, taking a 2-0 lead in the second set against Bautitsta Agut. Meanwhile Dzumhur’s attempt to serve for the match against Zverev didn’t go well – he’s just been broken to love!
Damir Dzumhur breaks again and will serve for the match against Alex Zverev! Zverev saved a succession of break points in his last two service games, a couple more in this one, but eventually gave it up with a double fault.
Yulia Putintseva, the Kazakhstani world No98 and first-set conquerer of Johanna Konta, is in round four after beating Qiang Wang 1-6, 7-5, 6-4. Putintseva was a quarter-finalist here two years ago, by a distance the finest Grand Slam performance of her career. She will play the winner of the match that has followed them on Court 7, between Katerina Siniakova and Barbora Strycova, the 26th seed. That match has only just begun, Siniakova breaking serve in the opening game.
While Zverev ended up winning five points on the spin to take that game, and instead of serving for the match Damir Dzumhur is serving to stay in the fourth set.
Djokovic wins the first set! He breaks in what turns out to be the final game of a high-quality opener to snatch it 6-4.
… and it’s back to deuce, the third break point saved with a strong serve out wide followed by a lovely, heavily-spinning drop shot down the line.
Seeds in big trouble dept: Crunch time for Alex Zverev, who is 2-1 down in sets, 4-4 in games and 0-40 in points against Dzumhur.
Fernando Verdasco beats Grigor Dimitrov 7-6, 6-2, 6-4
The 34-year-old Spaniard and 30th seed knocks out the No4 seed in straight sets to march into round four. It’s a stage he has reached six times before, and he has lost every time. This year he’ll play either Djokovic or Bautista Agut.
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Match point on Court No1, where Verdasco has a break point against Dimitrov …
The match between Djokovic and Bautista Agut has started extremely promisingly, with both players reaching a high level from the start. Djokovic just had, and missed, the match’s first break point, trading a lengthy succession of cross-court groundstrokes before attempting a drop shot that dropped into the net. It’s 4-4 in the first set.
On Court 18 Kei Nishikori has made a storming start against Gilles Simon, but the Frenchman has just saved three break points to go from 0-40 down, win five successive points and his first game of the match. Still, he trails 1-3.
Drama on Court One, where Fernando Verdasco – already two sets up – broke the fourth seed, Grigor Dimitrov, to go 4-3 up in the third set. But while I was composing this update he was broken back again. So, as you were.
Drama on Philippe Chatrier, where a ball is scooped up into the air and both Dzumhur and a ball boy run to catch it. Both are too busy looking up to see each other coming; the player gets there first, the ball boy runs into him and falls down, hurt. Eventually he gets up and stumbles groggily down the tunnel, leading to a brief delay while a replacement is found.
Damir Dzumhur wins the third set against Alex Zverev 6-4, clinching it with an excellent rally in which he was dragged to the net and worked his opponent around the court with a series of finely angled but not quite clinical volleys, before finally putting one away.
Seeds in trouble dept (2): Alex Zverev, the No2 seed, stormed through his first set against Damir Dzumhur 6-2 but then lost the second and is a break down in the third: Dzumhur is serving for it at 5-4.
Seeds in trouble dept: Grigor Dimitrov, the No4 seed, is two sets down against Fernando Verdasco. He lost the first on a tie break and seriously wobbled in the second – nearly half of Verdasco’s points came from his opponent’s unforced errors.
Daria Kasatkina beats Maria Sakkari 6-1, 1-6, 6-3
The 21-year-old 14th seed has come through this one and is in the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the second time, after last year’s US Open. Sakkari actually hit more winners than Kasatkina, but her serve while fast was too wildly unreliable to be a genuine weapon.
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Next up on Suzanne Lenglen: Novak Djokovic against Roberto Bautista Agut. They have played seven times, with Djokovic holding a 6-1 head-to-head advantage, including victory here two years ago, in four sets.
Madison Keys beats Naomi Osaka 6-1, 7-6
Keys sets up a second match point with another winner, and this one is surrendered by Osaka with a double fault. And this is what Keys has to say about it:
Naomi raised her level a lot in the second set and I really just had to hang in there. Clay is growing on me. It’s not my favourite still but being in the round of 16 for a second time definitely makes it a little bit better.
From 1-4 down Keys draws level, hitting two fabulous winners, one down the line and the other crosscourt. It’s an oddly compelling spectacle, this, Keys’ racket like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get.
Osaka has taken Keys to a second-set tie break, and has won the first two points. The American should already be back in the locker room resting up for round four, but is making life very difficult for herself. Osaka’s tactics are simply to keep the ball in play and wait for an error, and they’re working surprisingly frequently.
On court seven Yulia Putintseva, who beat Johanna Konta in the first round, is playing Qiang Wang, who beat Venus Williams at the same stage. Wang won the first set 6-1, but it’s deadlocked at 4-4 in the second.
Over on Philippe Chatrier Damir Dzumhur, who at 26 has never been beyond the third round of a Grand Slam, has levelled the match against Alexander Zverev, winning the second set 6-3.
Keys from 15-30 down, has a match point, misses it and then surrenders the game, hitting a forehand well long on break point. This is a strange match, with Keys clearly the superior player but also making too many unnecessary errors. Osaka has hit seven winners in the entire match, to Keys’ 18, but is still hanging in there.
Keys held her serve and has just broken, so is now serving for the match at 5-4 in the second set.
On Court 18, meanwhile, the women’s No14 seed, Daria Kasatkina, won her first set against Maria Sakkari 6-1, winning 26 points to her opponent’s 13. She has just lost the second set 6-1, winning 13 points to her opponent’s 29 even though her own first serve percentage went up from 73% to 79% and Sakkari’s plummeted from 62% to 44%.
So, an update on what has happened in the first hour of play:
On Philippe Chatrier, Alexander Zverev is a set up against Damir Dzumhur, and 3-3 in the second. On Suzanne Lenglen, Madison Keys won the first set against Naomi Osaka 6-1 but is having to fight in the second, which is currently on serve with Osaka 4-3 up. On Court One, Grigor Dimitrov is in a battle against Fernando Verdasco, who is currently serving at 5-6 in the first.
Hello world!
So here’s a Reuters preview of today’s action, with the order of play on the main courts:
Second seed Alexander Zverev will resume his quest for a maiden Grand Slam title against Bosnian Damir Dzumhur in the third round of the French Open on Friday.
The German has never reached the last 16 at Roland Garros and has lost his only other meeting with Dzumhur - in the quarter-finals of last year’s Shenzhen Open.
Former champion Novak Djokovic faces a stern test against Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut, the 13th seed, especially as the Serb has been far from his clinical best so far.
Seventh seed Dominic Thiem, the only player to beat favourite Rafael Nadal on clay this season, plays Italian Matteo Berrettini in the Bullring in one of the day’s last matches.
In the women’s draw, second seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark takes on France’s Pauline Parmentier for a place in the fourth round.
Wozniacki demolished Spaniard Georgina Garcia Perez 6-1 6-0 to reach round three and while she has a 3-1 head-to-head lead over Parmentier, the Dane was beaten by the Frenchwoman in Istanbul on clay earlier this year.
U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens is also in action, the 10th seed taking on Italy’s Camila Giorgi, while fellow American Madison Keys meets talented Japanese youngster Naomi Osaka.
Order of play on the main showcourts (all matches second round unless stated, prefix numbers denote seeding):
Court Philippe Chatrier
26-Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia) v 2-Alexander Zverev (Germany)
Pauline Parmentier (France) v 2-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark)
15-Lucas Pouille (France) v Karen Khachanov (Russia)
Camila Giorgi (Italy) v 10-Sloane Stephens (U.S.)
Court Suzanne Lenglen
13-Madison Keys (U.S.) v 21-Naomi Osaka (Japan)
13-Roberto Bautista Agut (Spain) v 20-Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
8-David Goffin (Belgium) v 32-Gael Monfils (France)
8-Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) v 25-Anett Kontaveit (Estonia)
Court 1
30-Fernando Verdasco (Spain) v 4-Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
31-Mihaela Buzarnescu (Romania) v 4-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)
7-Dominic Thiem (Austria) v Matteo Berrettini (Italy)
Simon will be here shortly. In the meantime you can read Kevin Mitchell’s account of Maria Sharapova’s progress, in which he describes the Russian as “flowing through Roland Garros with the determined air of a queen not quite ready for the guillotine”.
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