Regardless of rain suspending among the outside matches, the second spherical of the 2024 French Open is underway. It’s nonetheless early within the match, however world No. 1 Iga Swiatek and Naomi Osaka already gave us one of the crucial thrilling matches. Swiatek is chasing her fourth title at Roland Garros, however her plans had been virtually spoiled by Osaka — who was competing in simply her second Grand Slam since coming back from maternity depart in January.
After Swiatek gained the primary set Wednesday, Osaka cruised by means of the second whereas breaking her opponent 3 times, then carried that momentum right into a 4-1 lead within the third. Nonetheless, Swiatek was not simple to maintain down as she climbed her approach again to win 7-6, 1-6, 7-5. Swiatek is now driving a 14-match successful streak, which incorporates claiming the Madrid and Italian Open trophies. This was additionally Swiatek’s Sixteenth-straight win at Roland Garros.
The opposite prime seeds within the girls’s match are nonetheless alive. No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka had a promising 2023 marketing campaign and began this Grand Slam season along with her second-straight title on the Australian Open. She took care of enterprise towards Erika Andreeva within the first spherical and shall be dealing with Monika Uchijima within the second. In the meantime, third-seeded Coco Gauff earned her ticket to the third spherical with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Tamara Zidansek on Wednesday.
On the lads’s aspect, Novak Djokovic is seeking to go back-to-back and win a document twenty fifth Grand Slam trophy. Traditionally, this match has belonged to Rafael Nadal, however the Spanish veteran noticed an early exit and might have played at Roland Garros for the last time.
Nadal missed final 12 months’s match for the primary time in his profession as a consequence of damage and, though he hasn’t been 100% wholesome this 12 months, he determined to present the French Open a strive. The 22-time Grand Slam champion has gained the trophy 14 instances — greater than some other participant in tennis historical past. Nonetheless, he was unable to make a deep run as he fell 3-6, 6-7 (5-7), 3-6 to world No. 4 Alexander Zverev within the first spherical.
If Nadal retires on the finish of the season, the one member of the Huge Three nonetheless taking part in could be Djokovic, who handed Nadal for many Grand Slam trophies in males’s tennis historical past finally 12 months’s French Open. Djokovic took care of enterprise this week with a 6-4, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 first-round win over Pierre-Hugues Herbert. Djokovic is now set to tackle Roberto Carballes Baena on Thursday.
Right here is every little thing that you must know in regards to the 2024 French Open:
The way to watch the 2024 French Open
Date: Could 26 – June 9, 2024
Location: Roland Garros, Paris, France
TV: NBC, Tennis Channel, Peacock | Stream: fubo (try for free)
Notable males’s second-round matchups:
- No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- No. 2 Jannik Sinner vs. Richard Gasquet
- No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz def. Jesper De Jong, 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
- No. 4 Alexander Zverev vs. David Goffin
- No. 5 Daniil Medvedev vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- No. 6 Andrey Rublev def. Pedro Martinez 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
- No. 7 Casper Ruud vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- No. 8 Hubert Hurkacz vs. Brandon Nakashima — suspended
- No. 9 Stefanos Tsitsipas def. Daniel Altmaier, 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (2-7), 6-4
- No. 10 Grigor Dimitrov vs. Fabian Marozsan
Notable girls’s second-round matchups:
- No. 1 Iga Swiatek def. Naomi Osaka 7-6, 1-6, 7-5
- No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka vs. Monika Uchijima
- No. 3 Coco Gauff def. Tamara Zidansek 6-3, 6-4
- No. 4 Elena Rybakina vs. Arantxa Rus
- No. 5 Marketa Vondrousova vs. Katie Volynets — suspended
- No. 7 Qinwen Zheng vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- No. 8 Ons Jabeur def. Camila Osorio, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
- No. 9 Jelena Ostapenko vs. Clara Tauson
- No. 10 Daria Kasatkina vs.Peyton Stearns
Males’s singles seeds
- Novak Djokovic
- Jannik Sinner
- Carlos Alcaraz
- Alexander Zverev
- Daniil Medvedev
- Andrey Rublev
- Casper Ruud
- Hubert Hurkacz
- Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Grigor Dimitrov
- Alex de Minaur
- Taylor Fritz
- Holger Rune
- Tommy Paul
- Ben Shelton
- Nicolas Jarry
- Ugo Humbert
- Karen Khachanov
- Alexander Bublik
- Sebastian Baez
- Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Adrian Mannarino
- Francisco Cerundolo
- Alejandro Tabilo
- Frances Tiafoe
- Tallon Griekspoor
- Sebastian Korda
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Arthur Fils
- Lorenzo Musetti
- Mariano Navone
- Cam Norrie
Girls’s singles seeds
- Iga Swiatek
- Aryna Sabalenka
- Coco Gauff
- Elena Rybakina
- Marketa Vondrousova
- Maria Sakkari
- Qinwen Zheng
- Ons Jabeur
- Jelena Ostapenko
- Daria Kasatkina
- Danielle Collins
- Jasmine Paolini
- Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Madison Keys
- Elina Svitolina
- Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Liudmila Samsonova
- Marta Kostyuk
- Victoria Azarenka
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Carolina Garcia
- Emma Navarro
- Anna Kalinskaya
- Barbora Krejcikova
- Elise Mertens
- Katie Boulter
- Linda Noskova
- Sorana Cirstea
- Veronika Kudermetova
- Dayana Yastremska
- Leylah Fernandez
- Katerina Siniakova