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French Open LIVE: Latest tennis scores and results from Roland Garros
Carlos Alcaraz takes on Stefanos Tsitsipas in the French Open quarter-finals tonight, with new men’s No 1 Jannik Sinner waiting in the last-four after Novak Djokovic’s shock withdrawal earlier on Tuesday.
Djokovic underwent a MRI scan after he limped through a five-set thriller against Francisco Cerundolo on Monday, which revealed a “torn medial meniscus in his right knee”. The injury makes him a major doubt for Wimbledon, which begins on 1 July, and propels Sinner to the top of the rankings.
The Italian thrashed Grigor Dimitrov in his quarter-final earlier, while Djokovic’s exit means there will be a new men’s French Open champion this week. Alcaraz, who lost to Djokovic in last year’s semi-finals, is hoping to clay a maiden French Open title and defeated the Greek eighth seed Tsitsipas at this stage last season.
Tuesday’s action saw defending champion Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff set up a rematch of their 2022 final in Paris. Gauff dug deep to defeat Ons Jabeur in a 4-6 6-2 6-3 victory, while Swiatek blew Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova away in a 6-0 6-3 thashing.
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French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 6-3 4-2 Stefanos Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas plays another backhand wide, but does go ahead in this game at 30-15.
Alcaraz hits the net, and he has a chance to hold, which he does to 15.
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 20:28
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 6-3 4-1 Stefanos Tsitsipas
The crowd are getting into this contest now, they were behind Alcaraz, but it seems to be getting a bit more even.
Tsitsipas missed another backhand and Alcaraz is within a point of making his lead 4-1, and he does that, with the Greek player hitting long.
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 20:24
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 6-3 3-1 Stefanos Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas goes 30-0 ahead in this service game, he has not won a game in this set so far.
Alcaraz is not even having to work here, all the points are over relatively quickly, and unless something drastically changes, it looks like this match will not take too long either.
A poorly timed drop shot allows Tsitsipas back into the game, it looks like he is trying everything, but he is nearing a hold.
He wins a good point and starts to gesture for the crowd to get behind him. That might be the first deuce of the match.
Another good and difficult point goes the way of the Greek player, and he does hold this game!
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 20:21
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 6-3 3-0 Stefanos Tsitsipas
Alcaraz is showing all of his knowledge here, he has been tempting Tsitsipas into going for the big shots, and he’s missed a few which the Spaniard has just capitalised on.
Unsurprisingly, he holds comfortably again.
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 20:15
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 6-3 2-0 Stefanos Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas has worked himself up between the games, but he takes the first point, but misses an overhead forehand to go 30-0 up.
He is talking to his coach, and this is not usually a good sign. He misses another, and this is not good tennis from the Greek player, Alcaraz goes up 15-30.
Tsitsipas misses another big forehand, he is trying to hit it so hard and he can’t get them to land in the court, Alcaraz has two break points, another missed, shot this time a backhand, and Alcaraz breaks.
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 20:12
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 6-3 1-0 Stefanos Tsitsipas
Alcaraz starts the second set where he left off the first, and there was a moment of frustration from Tsitsipas, who has not settled into the game properly yet, despite a big overhead forehand to take it to 15-15.
A wild backhand from Tsitsipas and Alcaraz goes 40-15 up, that one came right off the bottom of the racket and balloons up.
Alcaraz holds to 30, he slid into a drop shot and held the position afterwards.
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 20:08
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 6-3 Stefanos Tsitsipas – SET
Tsitsipas drops the first point, but comes back with a drop shot and Alcaraz’ attempted lob goes long, however he misses an attempted big forehand and misses.
Tsitsipas has made five unforced errors so far in the game. Alcaraz has two set points, his backhand goes long and Tsitsipas saves one, but there’s still another.
Tsitsipas has missed an attempted sliced backhand, and it’s the Spaniard who takes the first set!
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 20:04
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 5-3 Stefanos Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas has won just six points on the Alcaraz serve, and not yet come close to breaking back.
Alcaraz plays another effective drop shot to go 15-0 ahead, he looks very confident in this game so far, but Tsitsipas has worked his forehand well to open up the court.
Alcaraz hold the game, and is one game away from taking the first set.
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 20:00
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 4-3 Stefanos Tsitsipas
After being broken in the first game of the match, Tsitsipas has looked to settle into his service games, and takes a 30-0 lead in this one as well.
But Alcaraz comes to the net and plays a skilled volleyed backhand that just dropped over the net and out of reach of the Greek player.
At this point, they have both played six winners each. Tsitsipas holds to 15.
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 19:56
French Open: Carlos Alcaraz 4-2 Stefanos Tsitsipas
Alcaraz rips a forehand to take the first point on his serve. He has looked very confident in this game, easing to a 40-0 lead before dropping the first point.
But he holds comfortably.
Sonia Twigg4 June 2024 19:54