Friday's schedule at Roland-Garros: start of the 3rd round and no rain
After a long day on Thursday, marked by a 55-match jam on the Roland-Garros courts, and punctuated by multiple rain interruptions, things should calm down a little on Friday with the start of the 3rd round. At least as far as the sequence of matches is concerned, since only 16 singles matches (men's and women's) are scheduled on the Paris clay court.
As for the weather forecast, the rain should leave players, organizers and spectators in peace. Apart from a few drops in the late afternoon, the whole day should be dry, according to Météo France.
(The full order of play is available on TennisTemple via the website and app menu)
On the ladies' side, we'll be following Coco Gauff against Dayana Yastremska, Iga Swiatek against Maria Bouzkova, Ons Jabeur against Leylah Fernandez, Marketa Vondrousova against Chloé Paquet, Sofia Kenin against Clara Tauson, Donna Vekic against Olga Danilovic, Liudmila Samsonova against Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Anastasia Potapova against Xinyu Wang.
On the men's side, Jannik Sinner faces Pavel Kotov, Carlos Alcaraz faces Sebastian Korda, Andrey Rublev faces Matteo Arnaldi, Stefanos Tsitsipas faces Zhizhen Zhang, Hubert Hurkacz faces Denis Shapovalov, Grigor Dimitrov faces Zizou Bergs and Ben Shelton faces Felix Auger-Aliassime.
The first matches are scheduled to start at 12:00 on Court Philippe Chatrier and at 11:00 on all other courts. A very happy sixth day to you all.
(The full order of play is available on TennisTemple via the website and app menu)
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