Holger Rune, 6th in the world, qualified for the knockout stages of Roland-Garros on Saturday by logically dominating the Argentinian Genaro Olivieri, from qualifying, 6-4, 6-1, 6-3 in two short hours. “It wasn’t easy because of the wind and because he’s playing well! I had to stay sharp,” commented the Dane. Olivieri, 231st in the world, saved three match points on his serve, but he lost on the fourth, in the next game, while Rune was serving.
His half of the table, already less provided than that of the top, was further clarified with the premature defeats of world No.2 Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner (9th). But there remain last year’s finalist Casper Ruud (4th), whom he could face in the quarters, and Alexander Zverev (27th), who suffered a serious ankle injury while making life difficult for Nadal in the semi-finals last year.
In each of her first two rounds, the Polish, who has just celebrated her 22nd birthday, had inflicted a 6-0 on her opponents (Bucsa and Liu). Wang, she was entitled to two. In total, the Chinese scored just seventeen points throughout the match, and hit 22 unforced errors against just three winners. “It was a very solid performance, I was really disciplined and I managed everything in terms of my tennis, I’m very satisfied,” appreciated Swiatek, who is planning a boat trip on the Seine by the end. end of the Paris fortnight.
For his part, Coco Gauff, world No.6 and outgoing finalist, put an end to the adventure of another teenager, the young Russian Mirra Andreeva, 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-1 . Andreeva, recently 16 and in her first-ever Grand Slam tournament, sailed through three qualifying rounds and the first two rounds of the main draw without missing a set before challenging Gauff.
In the roughly hour-long first set, Andreeva showed she knew how to keep a cool head despite her young age, snatching the set in the tiebreaker, after twice losing a break lead, and having to the reverse unbroken in extremis when Gauff served 6 games to 5. The young Russian no longer kept pace with her American elder then.
After two contested sets, Jabeur quickly took off in the decisive set, 4 games to 1, double break. Danilovic broke once but twisted her right ankle in the next game and ended up losing the last two games and losing in just over two hours.
