Tennis-French Open Day Six

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PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the sixth day at the French Open on Friday (times GMT):

1645 PAOLINI CRUSHES STARODUBTSEVA

Italian fourth seed Jasmine Paolini, last year’s runner-up at Roland Garros, carved out a comfortable 6-4 6-1 victory over Ukrainian Yuliia Starodubtseva.

1635 RYBAKINA TO FACE SWIATEK

Elena Rybakina brushed aside Latvian 21st seed Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-2 to reach the fourth round, where the Kazakhstani 12th seed will take on four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek.

1513 RUNE SETS UP MUSETTI CLASH

Danish 10th seed Holger Rune beat local favourite Quentin Halys 4-6 6-2 5-7 7-5 6-2 to set up a fourth-round clash with eighth seed Lorenzo Musetti.

1509 PAUL OVERCOMES KHACHANOV

American 12th seed Tommy Paul was tested by Russia’s Karen Khachanov in a four-hour battle, but prevailed 6-3 3-6 7-6(7) 3-6 6-3 to reach the fourth round, where he faces Australian 25th seed Alexei Popyrin.

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1455 SWIATEK THROUGH TO FOURTH ROUND

Iga Swiatek’s quest for a fourth straight French Open crown continued unimpeded as the Polish fifth seed beat Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian 6-2 7-5 to reach the fourth round.

1427 POPYRIN ENDS BORGES’S DREAM RUN

Australian 25th seed Alexei Popyrin reached the fourth round of the French Open for the first time by beating Portugal’s Nuno Borges 6-4 7-6(11) 7-6(5).

1236 MUSETTI BEATS NAVONE

Italian eighth seed Lorenzo Musetti beat Argentine Mariano Navone 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-2, reaching the fourth round of the French Open for the third time.

1128 SABALENKA DISPATCHES DANILOVIC

World number one Aryna Sabalenka brushed aside Serbia’s Olga Danilovic 6-2 6-3 in one hour and 20 minutes on Court Philippe-Chatrier to reach the fourth round, where she is set to face Amanda Anisimova.

1107 ANISIMOVA THROUGH TO FOURTH ROUND

Former French Open semi-finalist American Amanda Anisimova, seeded 16, beat Clara Tauson of Denmark 7-6(4) 6-4 to reach the round of 16, where she could face Aryna Sabalenka.

1035 CHINA’S ZHENG OVERCOMES MBOKO

Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen beat Canadian Victoria Mboko 6-3 6-4 on Court Simonne-Mathieu to reach the fourth round of the French Open for the second time in her career.

0912 PLAY UNDER WAY

Play began with the sun shining and the temperature hovering around 23 degrees Celsius. It is a hot day at Roland Garros, with a real feel of 27-31 degrees.

Italian eighth seed Lorenzo Musetti is playing Argentina’s Mariano Navone in the men’s third round on Court Suzanne-Lenglen

Top seed Aryna Sabalenka, and four-times winner Iga Swiatek are in action later, while defending champion Carlos Alcaraz continues his quest for a fifth Grand Slam crown.

FRENCH OPEN ORDER OF PLAY ON FRIDAY (prefix number denotes seeding)

COURT PHILIPPE-CHATRIER (play begins at 1000 GMT)

1-Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) v Olga Danilovic (Serbia)

Quentin Halys (France) v 10-Holger Rune (Denmark)

4-Jasmine Paolini (Italy) v Yuliia Starodubtseva (Ukraine)

Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia & Herzegovina) v 2-Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)

COURT SUZANNE-LENGLEN (play begins at 0900 GMT)

8-Lorenzo Musetti (Italy) v Mariano Navone (Argentina)

Jaqueline Cristian (Romania) v 5-Iga Swiatek (Poland)

12-Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) v 21-Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)

15-Frances Tiafoe (U.S.) v 23-Sebastian Korda (U.S.)

COURT SIMONNE-MATHIEU (play begins at 0900 GMT)

Victoria Mboko (Canada) v 8-Zheng Qinwen (China)

24-Karen Khachanov (Russia) v 12-Tommy Paul (U.S.)

13-Ben Shelton (U.S.) v Matteo Gigante (Italy)

Bernarda Pera (U.S.) v 13-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)

(Reporting by Shifa Jahan and Chiranjit Ojha in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Radnedge)