ROLAND GARROS 2026

sinner out 2d rd

Noooooooooooooo

I cannot deal with a Djokovic win

zverev is now over 30% to win it here
https://www.tennisabstract.com/current/2026RolandGarrosMenForecast.html

I can’t deal with a Zverev win, either

Come on *checks notes* um… anyone but Djokovic or Zverev I guess?

Just saying that on the French Open thread. The men's game was depressing but Alcaraz and Sinner are great champions and nice ppl.

Blaming climate change

Ruud, Cobolli, FAA, we got options. Or Kouame to pull a Michael Chang! Fingers crossed for Fonseca tomorrow.

Swiatek has dodged a bullet with the exit of Ostapenko, but still a rough draw.

I am bemused that FAA is the highest men’s seed left in the draw

djoker and zverev ahead of him

perhaps you meant in the top half

Yes that is what I meant

Djoko in the 5th against Fonseca, after being two sets up!

Oh yes

Hell yeeah

3 aces to finish! wow

Now we just need a wild night session crowd and Quentin Halys to make this the best Slam first week ever (and I like Sinner).

Oh thank god

wildly impressive by zach svajda, takes out fran cerundolo in 5 after being up 2 sets to 0

That’s quite a result. I had high hopes for Sakkari this week but she’s gone too. Cobolli yet to drop a set. Might still be ITALIA.

plays coboli next in rd of 16 who looked scary vs learner xp

Good to see Osaka doing well.

Berrettini 15-13 in a breaker after 5h11. If Landaluce can pinch this 4th set vs JM Cerundolo, they’ll go beyond that.

tuff for american women -- anisimova, coco & jovic all out -- all v good matches

yeah jm cerundolo/landaluce just crossed 6 hours on court

JMC wins. It's up to Arnaldi-Collignon to raise the bar now. They've had an 85min set. No one wants to go home.

And Kouame almost forced a fifth vs Tabilo.

im worried theres no way the second week of this tournament can live up to this first week

Good grief, I missed Coco's exit in all this marathon madness. (Can't see any of this, btw - thought about a month's subscription to cover the UEFA club finals too, but nah).

the atp seems to say the jmc/landaluce match was only 5h 58m; my score app said 6h 03m

We may have the same score app! Happy to round it up to six hours. Wilander-McEnroe '82, Clement-Santoro '04, it's the magic mark.

And now Tiafoe has recovered from 0-2. FAA not there yet, and may go the distance.
Cobolli the only winner today in the men's singles who didn't have to go at least three hours (not even two!). Three matches >5h.
Mboko-Keys also an epic. But only the third longest women's match of the day.

We've also had some mad scorelines this first week. Medvedev trading 6-1 sets in his loss. Kalinskaya and Mensik winning after suffering a bagel; Tien handing out two either side of a 2-6.

Not sure I've seen anything like it.

Yeah many bagels in matches. Wonder if it's the heat and the player just giving up the set to move on to the next..

"nine men's singles third-round ties to go to five sets - breaking the Open era record of seven"

Iga dumped! Kostyuk has been on the rise..

Cirstea -- on her retirement year -- now in her first slam qf!!

I missed the fact that Ruud saved MPs vs Paul. Hope Osaka can beat Sabalenka, and for a Zverev exit before the semis.

Sorry Cirstea has appeared at RG qf before (17 years ago)

Jodar has come from two sets down and has broken Busta in the 5th

Fonseca's gonna be pretty good I think

Mid level guys like Rublev and Ruud with a higher ranking area losing to the new blood.

Mensik has just beaten Rublev in 5. Fonseca is up two sets rn..

mensik/fonseca
zverev/jodar

is a great qtr finals

This Tiafoe/Arnaldi match is kinda something. (Need to duck out so I probably can't catch the finish.)

foe losing that 4-5 deuce pt 5th set was bruuutal

feels criminal that didnt go to a match tiebreak

Sadly had to switch off Tiafoe Arnaldi after the 3rd. Brutal indeed

Kostyuk has won the first against Svitolina. She's looking really really good

But then Svitolina plays more aggressive and Kostyuk goes off a notch and we are on a final decider where breaks are exchanged

Brilliant matchh

Too good, Kostyuk. Really pulled away..

Felt this might be a little too soon for Jodar to pull off a match like this. And Mensik/Fonseca have played themselves into the ground and will probably go four hours tonight. Meh. Flavio or Felix maybe.

Fonseca and Mensik don't have enough experience. Zverev should get to the final. He is playing solid.

"So many players in the top section have been embroiled in marathon matches, not least Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi, whose 17 hours 54 minutes on court to reach the last eight is an open-era record by, astoundingly, over two hours."

FAA Cobolli hasn't had many fireworks so far at one set all though I am only half watching

Cobolli survived 10 mins on his own serve after breaking FAA in the 3rd

And breaks in the middle of the 4th. Cobolli is close

There will be an Italian in the final #teamItalia

Berrettini just retired. Real shame, you could tell throughout something healthwise was getting to him.

All the Italian talent is going to tennis.

The youngest Italy team 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 beat Luxembourg thanks to Inter's Esposito 💪🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/ifutphPihk

— 433 (@433) June 3, 2026

chwalinksa reminds me of a lefty halep

Well that was a hell of a way to wrap up a set.

Great match, had to leave mid way through the breaker, chwalinksa was 4-2 down lol

Whew! Bring on the final!

Zverev to serve for a two set lead. He's only had one tricky game to deal with in his own serve..

Zverev was edgy after the Mensik time out. Z broken and Mensik serving for the set

Booo!

Arnaldi withdraws from semi-final due to illness
Flavio Cobolli will face Alexander Zverev in the French Open final after his semi-final opponent and fellow Italian Matteo Arnaldi pulled out of the tournament due to illness on Friday.

Cobolli, the 10th seed, was due to be playing in his first Grand Slam semi-final but will instead benefit from some extra rest ahead of Sunday’s final. AFP

If this is collusion, I approve

"Chwalinska has climbed to the fringes of the world's top 20 with her Roland Garros run but she is not guaranteed to make the main draw at Wimbledon as she was outside the top 100 at the cut-off time for entries.

It means she will again have to go through qualifying - unless she is awarded a main-draw wildcard for the tournament, which begins on 29 June.

Wildcards are usually reserved for British players, those who have performed well previously on grass and notable high-profile players.

France's Lois Boisson, who was ranked 361st in the world when she reached the French Open semi-finals last year, did not get a wildcard and subsequently lost in the first round of qualifying."

Imagine some British no hoper getting into a Wimbledon first round instead of this wonderful, entertaining player.

Even if Chwalinska never does anything at a slam again!

Dbl break Zverev in command

Not a German winner at RG since 1937...fucked up

Zverev is solid but Cobolli isn't at the races. UEs column is not good rn

Cobolli has settled: 3-3 in the 2nd

No signs of breaking Zverev tho'

Cobolli breaks, helped by two dfs but let's take it!

Took Zverev 10 mins to hold serve.

Cobolli to serve for the 2nd

Forza Flavio!!

Cobolli's groundstrokes are so awesome

Zverev had two bps, skanked one return: 2-2

Cobolli plays a poor game from 30-0 to hand Zverev the set.

Well, 2-1, let's see if this cunt can actually do it

Zverev went onto have a v shitty 1st game and is broken in the 4th!

Cobolli broken back...sigh. Zverev did his best to fuck it up too. Took him 4 bps..

Broken straight back! Horrible game from Z

Cobolli to serve for the 4th

Sigh, Zverev breaks back. Actually strung some winners..5-5

Zverev 6-5. Ace after smashing into the net

Loads of tension, took some pills from non-medical stuff lol, lots of cramping. Physio on now, just change of ends treatment...

*staff

If Cobolli can win the game and TB...but he is nervy too..

Won the game easy, so..

Yes Flavio!! Cross court winner

Zverev is moving again and grinding it out: 3-1

3-3..

Easy dunk for Cobolli set and he skanks it omg

Gets that FH winner though. Into a 5th!!

Zverev had won 12 TBs in a row at RG before this..come on Flavio get this done!

Zverev is 3-0 up, and he could do the funniest thing now, but this is so depressing.

5-1. Just make him serve it out.

3 CPs..Cobolli's race is surely run..

grats to zverev, the only way he was losing that match was at his own hand, and he nearly did, but he deserves to have a slam, prob several

Shame. All it took was for Alcaraz, Fils, Musetti, Draper and Rune to pull out, and Medvedev, Sinner and Djokovic to lose in week one.

So... the title of the best to never win a Slam now goes to...? Gottfried, Okker, Rios, Coria, Nalbandian?

I always forget David Ferrer! 27 titles, ranked #3, 17 QFs or better in Slam (incl 10 in a row).

But still, the only active multiple Slam final losers are Ruud and Tsitsipas. I can see Casper reaching another at some point, not so Stefanos.

"All it took was for Alcaraz, Fils, Musetti, Draper and Rune to pull out, and Medvedev, Sinner and Djokovic to lose in week one."

Reckon Cobolli would've won had this not been his 1st slam final. Very uncompetitive in that 1st set, and he was pretty much on one leg in that last set.

"Likewise, the 24-year-old Lorenzo Musetti reached the semi-finals or better of all the big clay-court tournaments last year and would have been a contender if not for the fact that, since his retirement in the semi-final in Paris last year, he has frequently been injured. This could have similarly been a huge opportunity for 24-year-old Jack Draper, but he has been unable to stay healthy. Holger Rune, 23, is still sidelined due to the torn achilles tendon he suffered last year. The timeline of Alcaraz’s recovery from his right wrist injury remains uncertain"

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jun/08/dramatic-french-open-2026-tennis-lack-of-challengers-zverev

Zverev needs to win another and beat a great player on route to be thought of as a proper champion, don't care whether he's won this or not.