The 8th finals end this Monday at the Roland-Garros tournament in Paris. The outgoing finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas4th in the world, was eliminated 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, by the young 19-year-old Danish hopeful Holger Rune (40th), who reached the quarters of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. He is the first Dane in the quarterfinals at Roland-Garros since 1925 and will face the Norwegian on Wednesday Casper Ruud (8th), who beat the Pole Hubert Hurkaczto try to climb into the last four.
On the program in particular, the night session, with Russian Daniil Medvedev, impressive since the start of the tournament. He will face Croatian Marin Cilic. In women, world number 1 Iga Swiatek prevailed against the Chinese Qinwen Zheng.
As for the Roland-Garros quarter-final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovicit was scheduled for the evening session on Tuesday, starting at 8:45 p.m., but it will be “accessible free of charge to everyone in France” on “Prime Video, mobile and web applications”, announced the French Tennis Federation (FFT) in a press release on Monday. Viewers will be able to “watch this game on their regular TV service” without “no registration or account creation”, specifies the FFT. Ordinarily, night session matches are broadcast only on Amazon’s paid platform, Prime Video.
Day 9 matches
Court Philippe Chatrier
- Veronika Kudermetova (RUS/N.29) defeats Madison Keys (USA/N.22) 1-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Holger Rune (DEN) defeats Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE/4) 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (POL/N.1) defeats Zheng Qinwen (CHN) 6-7 (5/7), 6-0, 6-2
- Marin Cilic (CRO/20) – Daniil Medvedev (RUS/2)
Court Suzanne Lenglen
- Darya Kasatkina (RUS/N.20) defeats Camila Giorgi (ITA/N.28) 6-2, 6-2
- Casper Ruud (NOR/8) defeats Hubert Hurkacz (POL/12) 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
- Jessica Pegula (USA/N.11) beats Irina Begu (ROM) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Andrey Rublev (RUS / N.7) beats Jannik Sinner (ITA / N.11) 1-6, 6-4, 2-0 (retirement)