Le Monde
The last games of the knockout stages of the Roland-Garros tournament take place this Monday, May 30. If there is no longer a single Frenchwoman and only one French in the running, some favorites will be on the courts, like the Polish Iga Swiatek who will try to sign a 32 ‘Affilled by defying the Chinese Qinwen Zheng. Russian Daniil Medvedev will face the Croatian Marin Cilic on the Philippe-Chatrier in night session.
In the meantime, Russian Daria Kasatkina won her ticket for the quarter-finals without fear (6-2, 6-2) against the Italian Camila Giorgi. In 2018, the current 20th world player had already reached this quarter -final stadium in the Paris tournament: she had been beaten by the American Sloane Stephens.
If she had chained with another quarter -final in Wimbledon, since she had no longer reached the second week in Grand Slam. But this year, she arrived in Paris with a series of 9 victories in her last 11 games: she has notably been semi-finalist at the Tournament on Terre de Rome, bowing in front of the Tunisian Ons Jabeur. Since the start of the tournament in Paris, she has not lost a set.