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Key events
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Chatrier
Kostyuk 3-6 1-3 Sabalenka [2]
Vesely v Tsitsipas [5]
Cornet v Giorgi
Mannarino v Humbert
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Lenglen
Khachanov [11] 3-6 0-0 Lestienne
Sakkari [8] v Muchova
Djere v Rublev [7]
Collins v Pegula [3]
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Mathieu
Goffin 3-6 1-3 Kurkacz [13]
Linette [21] v Fernandez
Cazaux v Moutet
Niemeier v Kasatkina [9]
Meantime on the men’s side, Khachanov, the number 11 seed, has lost the first set to local boy, Constant Lestienne, 6-3, while Hurkacz, 13, leads David Goffin 6-3 2-1.
On Chatrier, Sabalenka has taken the first set against Marta Kostyuk and broken at the start of the second; she lads 6-3 2-1.
Righto, here we go!
Preamble
Hello and welcome to Roland-Garros 2023!
There’s little better in life than continuous sport, day after day – that feeling of being into a tournament – and there are few tournaments better than this one, a festival of intensity and the gateway to summer.
We begin the women’s event with one simple question: can anyone stop Iga Swiatek? The defending champ has won here in two of the last three years and also holds the US Open title, which is to say we might be starting an epoch. She looks by far the best player on tour and at 21 still has lots of improving to do … except women’s tennis is least predictable sport on the planet, so really, who knows? Yes, she’s a strong favourite, but also, we need to see more before we can assume what she’ll do with that; she gets going tomorrow and in the meantime, Aryna Sabalenka, seeded two and a new person having finally won her first major in Melbourne, has a chance to show us how she’s feeling.
The men’s side, meanwhile, has no Rafael Nadal – champion in 14 of the last 18 years. What a ludicrous sentence that is! But he’s not here this term, meaning an opportunity for everyone else – in particular, Novak Djokovic, as if he needs such a a thing, and Carlos Alcaraz.
Djokovic is tied with Nadal on 22 Grand Slams, took the Australian Open in January, and looks for all the world like he can keep winning them until the end of time; arguably, no sportsperson has ever been harder to beat. Alcaraz, though, is on the surge, a brilliant clay-courter with a majestic all-court game; at some point, this competition will surely belong to him, and that point might just be now. This is going to be great.
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