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PARIS: Friday was a day of stark storylines at the French Open. Aryna Sabalenka rode home on scads of winners, while Elina Svitolina, the comeback mom, playing tennis and using her strokes to fight for Ukraine in a different frontline, clinched victory and made an epic statement. Svitolina in summary…

PARIS: For much of Thursday's late evening match, the crowd backed the home player, the underdog - Arthur Rinderknech.

British interest in singles is over at Roland Garros after the British number one’s 6-1 6-2 6-4 defeat.

The 36-year-old battled for more than three and a half hours to win 7-6 (4) 7-6 (5) 6-2.

Top tennis player Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus has been allowed to avoid a traditional postmatch news conference at the French Open after saying she did not feel safe when a reporter asked about the war in Ukraine during previous question-and-answer sessions

Ukraine tennis player Elina Svitolina will not shake the hands of Russian and Belarusian opponents out of respect for the soldiers fighting on the front line following Moscow's invasion of her country last year, she said on Friday.

Novak Djokovic beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-6(4), 7-6(5), 6-2 to reach the fourth round but Cameron Norrie lost 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 to Lorenzo Musetti

Djokovic needed three hours and 36 minutes to complete the straight-sets victory

With Pegula joining No. 5 Caroline Garcia, No. 8 Maria Sakkari and No. 10 Petra Kvitova on the sideline, four of the top 10 women’s seeds already are gone