Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina reacts throughout her third spherical match towards Belgium’s Elise Mertens on the French Open 2024 tennis championship, in Paris on June 1, 2024.
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Grand Slam winners Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka reached the fourth spherical of the French Open in straight units on June 1.
The 2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina, seeded fourth, beat Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-4, 6-2. Two-time Australian Open champion Sabalenka adopted her on Courtroom Philippe Chatrier and gained 7-5, 6-1 towards Paula Badosa.
“It is robust to play your finest buddy,” Sabalenka stated.
It definitely was for some time.
After trailing 5-3 within the first set, Sabalenka gained eight straight video games to take full management.
“I used to be simply feeling myself and trusting my pictures,” Sabalenka stated.
The previous No. 1-ranked Sabalenka’s finest efficiency at Roland Garros is reaching the semifinals whereas Rybakina — the one participant from Kazakhstan to win a significant title — has one quarterfinal look right here.
Rybakina dropped her serve within the seventh sport of the primary set however broke straight again to tie her match at 4-4.
Russian-born Varvara Gracheva of France superior to the fourth spherical of a significant for the primary time after downing Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 7-5, 6-3.
Later Saturday, defending champion Novak Djokovic will probably be dealing with No. 30 seed Lorenzo Musetti in a rematch from 2021, when Musetti gained the primary two units earlier than retiring within the fifth.
No. 4 seed Alexander Zverev, who gained the Italian Open final month, performs Twenty sixth-seeded Tallon Griekspoor.
In different males’s third-round play, Twenty first-seeded Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime beat No.15-seeded American Ben Shelton 6-4, 6-2, 6-1. Their match resumed after being interrupted by rain on Friday night.
Auger-Aliassime has by no means reached the quarterfinals right here, and should get previous two-time main winner Carlos Alcaraz of Spain.
For the fifth consecutive day, rain interrupted play.
At round 1 p.m. rain fell once more, with a cold wind and an unappealing temperature of 14 levels Celsius (57 Fahrenheit). (AP) DDV
