Day five roundup
There’s still plenty for play for at Roland Garros, and that includes Tstsipas struggling in the second set with Zdenk Kolar, and Dan Evans’ battle royal with Sweden’s Ymer levelled at 1-1 as I write. But that concludes the blog for the day. Niall McVeigh will be here on Friday for more.
But some big stories already today, particularly in the women’s singles, with France’s Leolia Jeanjean, the qualifier, beating Karolina Pliskova, the no 8 seed, and Simona Halep’s loss to the Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen, which looked a possible glimpse of the future, though Halep didn’t look too well.
Iga Swiatek, the Polish no 1 seed, had no such issues, winning her 30th straight match, taking just a minute over an hour to beat Alison Riske.
And in the men’s, so far the biggest name in action was Daniil Medvedev, who won in three sets against Laslo Dere but didn’t have it his own way by any means.
Tumaini Carayol will be reporting from Paris later on for more details.
