The tournament is coming to an end at Porte d’Auteuil and the chapter of the women’s draw will close this Saturday, June 8 at Roland-Garros. Opposed in the final, Iga Swiatek and Jasmine Paolini face very different challenges (from 3 p.m., live on France 2 and france.tv). In men’s doubles, it’s time for an underdog final.
Swiatek-Paolini, the obvious and the surprise
When it’s time to hit the clay court of Philippe-Chatrier on Saturday, Iga Swiatek will be a regular on the court. On the one hand because she will play her fourth Roland-Garros final there in six appearances, but also because her status as world No. 1 gave her the right to play all her matches there. Quite the opposite of her opponent, Jasmine Paolini, who had never played a match on the Central before her quarter-final against Elena Rybakina and who, above all, had never done better than a second round at Roland in five participations.
Impressive against Coco Gauff and Mirra Andreeva in the semi-finals, the two players are expected for an exciting match, where the Pole will however start as the heavy favorite. In any case, she leads 2-0 in their direct confrontations, while the last one dates back to the US Open 2022.
Duel of underdogs in men’s doubles
The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds of the doubles tournament were still in the running at the semi-final stage, but neither will have the honors of the Philippe-Chatrier court this Saturday. In question, the pairs composed of Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic, and Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori, who achieved the feat of taking out the big favorites of the tournament.
The first named played overtime against Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers, seeded n°1, winning in three sets and 2 hours of play (3-6, 6-4, 7-5), after notably eliminating the Tsitsipas brothers in the quarter-finals. For the latter, it took quite a journey to get here. In the semi-finals, the two Italians took out the Bopanna-Ebden pair, seeded n°2 (7-5, 2-6, 6-2), after having already eliminated the seeds n°3 in the quarter-finals. final.
Diede De Groot once again
The ladies’ wheelchair tennis final between Diede De Groot (n°1) and Zhenzhen Zhu worked in favor of the Dutchwoman, who nevertheless had difficulty getting rid of the Chinese. By winning 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in 2h07 of play, the world number 1 won her fifth crown in Paris, the fourth in a row, she who also made the four in a row at the start of year at the Australian Open, who could also do it at Wimbledon. On the other hand, at the US Open, she will aim for a seventh consecutive title in New York.