Transalpine beat Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the early afternoon. In the evening, the long -awaited quarter -finals match between Novak Djokovic and Rafaël Nadal.
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Place at the first quarter-finals of Roland-Garros, Tuesday May 31 on the court Philippe-Chatrier, both in the female table and in the male table. After the victory of the Italian Martina Trevisan, a 100 % American duel between Cori Gauff and Sloane Stephens, before an explosive match between the German Alexander Zverev and the Spanish nugget Carlos Alcaraz.
The highlight of the day will be the match between Serbian Novak Djokovic, world number one and twice the Porte d’Auteuil winner, and the Spaniard Rafaël Nadal, “owner” of the Parisian clay with thirteen victories to his record. Beginning of the match at 8:45 p.m., for a reissue of the half legendary match in the 2021 edition which had seen the victory of Djokovic?
Martina Trevisan, the surprise guest of the semi-finals
The Roland-Garros female picture reserves us its share of surprises with each edition. This year, it was the Italian Martina Trevisan who managed to make her way to the semi -finals of a tournament, who, as every year, saw the head of the standard – the number A world and winner of the tournament in 2020, the Polish Iga Swiatek, is the only representative of the top 10 still in the running.
Tuesday, Transalpine, only 59
The figure of the day
Or the number of confrontations on the ATP circuit between Novak Djokovic and Rafaël Nadal. The Serbian leads 30 to 28 in duels, but it is the Spaniard who still dictates his law in Grand Slam (10-7) and especially on clay (19-8, including 7 victories for two in Roland-Garros) .