French Open updates | Zverev ousts Alcaraz to reach SF
French Open updates | Zverev ousts Alcaraz to reach SF
PARIS — The Latest on the French Open tennis tournament (all times local):
8:10 p.m.
Alcaraz was unable to get a hand on a backhand return from the 25-year-old German
Alcaraz, seeded sixth, entered the match with a 32-3 record and a tour-leading four championships this year. Zverev broke the Spanish teenager in the fifth game of the first set with 16 unforced errors. In the seventh game of the second set, he broke Alcaraz.At Court Philippe Chatrier, Zverev allowed Alcaraz just six break points, but he successfully fought off four of them, improving his record against the Spaniard to 3-1.This is Zverev's first Grand Slam victory over a top-10 opponent.Aiming to become the youngest semifinalist since Rafael Nadal's 19th birthday in 2005, Alcaraz set his sights on the semifinals.
To make it 3-1 in the second set, the 18th-seeded Gauff hit an error on Stephens' third break-point opportunity and went on to win the next two points with a drive volley.Stephens had won three games in a row to level the first set at 5-5, but Gauff won the next seven points and took the set in the second round 6-3. Gauff had her first set-point opportunity when Stephens missed a backhand volley.As a former world No. 3, Stephens, 29, won the Flushing Meadows Open in 2017 and finished second at Roland Garros in 2018.
At Roland Garros a year ago, Zverev made it all the way to the semifinals as wellCoco Gauff, an American teenager, beat Sloane Stephens 7-5, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.First-time semifinalist Martina Trevisan, who beat Leylah Fernandez earlier, awaits 18-year-old Gauff in the next round.On Court Philippe Chatrier, Gauff built early leads in both sets, while Stephens made crucial errors.
On her way to the semifinals, Gauff has not lost a set
At approximately 2:30 p.m.It was Martina Trevisan's first Grand Slam semifinal at the age of 28 after defeating Leylah Fernandez in three sets at the French Open.He will face Coco Gauff or Sloane Stephens in his next matchup.At Court Philippe Chatrier, the 17th-seeded Canadian had a chance to beat the Italian in straight sets, but Fernandez saved a match point and went on to win the tiebreaker.
However, Trevisan had two double-faults in the tiebreaker but won the first seven points of the third set and broke twice to take a 4-0 advantage.In the first set of the US Open finalist Fernandez's match, the 19-year-old received treatment on her right foot after making 15 unforced errors. At 3-2 down in the fifth game, she took a medical timeout and had her foot bandaged.For the 59th-ranked Trevisan, who made it to the quarterfinals of the 2014 French Open, it was his 10th straight victory in singles. This month, in Rabat, Morocco, she won her first professional tournament title.
But with 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens and 18-year-old Coco Gauff facing off on Court Philippe Chatrier in the second match, only two American women remain in contention to move onto round of 16. Jessica Pegula will be on the other side of the draw. Last year, Stephens made it all the way to the finals in Paris, but she lost in the quarterfinals to Gauff.
Former US Open runner-up Alexander Zverev takes on young Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz in the first men's quarterfinal.At Roland Garros, Rafael Nadal owns a 109-3 win-loss record, including 13 of his men's major singles titles. Djokovic, with a 30-28 head-to-head advantage, was the opponent in two of those three Paris defeats.
On Day 10 of the French Open quarterfinals, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will meet for the 59th time in their career on Court Philippe Chatrier, where they have a combined 41 Grand Slam singles titles.Martina Trevisan of Italy will face Leylah Fernandez of Canada in the first quarterfinals of the Roland Garros tournament, which is her first appearance in the last eight of a clay-court tournament.
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