Today’s poster
We hesitated for a long time with Alcaraz-Korda but like Paula Badosa, our heart finally leaned towards Stefanos Tsitsipas. After having brilliantly escaped the Altmaier trap in the previous round, the Greek will have to come up against the spring attraction, Zhang Zhizhen. Why attraction? Because he is both capable of losing on clay against Ugo Humbert and Luca Van Assche and capable of reaching a Masters 1000 quarter-final as well as a 3rd round of Grand Slam. So we say to ourselves that a misunderstanding could result in something nice
Today’s favorites
In addition to Tsitsipas, we will therefore find Carlitos Alcaraz on the Philippe Chatrier court against Sebastian Korda. On paper, the American should smash his head against his glass ceiling, but let’s not exclude the possibility of at least annoying the Spaniard, who was still connected to alternating current in the previous round. For the rest, we will watch Ons Jabeur against Leylah Fernandez, and Coco Gauff opening in the center against Yastremska, just before Sinner, opposed to Kotov. Finally, Iga Swiatek will hope to have a better time against Bouzkova than against Osaka. We will watch his reunion with the formidable public of Chatrier (no).
The French of the day
We take the same and start again. Tomorrow, to see the French in the 3rd round, you will have to camp on the Simmone-Mathieu court. Chloé Paquet, in the second rotation, and Corentin Moutet, in the last, will have a difficult task, barely 24 hours after their last match, caught hard due to the rain. Paquet faces former finalist Marketa Vondrousova and Coco will play Austrian landlubber Ofner. Note that if you want to see Alizé Cornet at Roland, it’s always possible: she plays doubles with Fiona Ferro.
Weather
It should rain a little in the morning, but overall the sky will be a little less threatening. We have the right to hope for a decent day, without too many interruptions. Temperatures will nevertheless remain autumnal.
The daring prediction of the day
Arnaldi, the French’s new best friend, makes Andrey Rublev and his chip mentality go crazy when the road gets a little too steep. The match goes to five sets. As for the winner, we’ll let you decide.