Novak Djokovic vs Stefanos Tsitsipas
LOOKAHEAD TO SUNDAY
The French Open males’s remaining pits Novak Djokovic in opposition to Stefanos Tsitsipas. Djokovic shall be making an attempt to win 19th Grand Slam title in his 29th look in a significant remaining. That may transfer the 34-year-old from Serbia inside one of many males’s file of 20 Slam trophies shared by his rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Djokovic beat Nadal within the semifinals.
The 22-year-old Tsitsipas shall be showing in his first Grand Slam remaining. Djokovic is making an attempt to gather his seventh trophy prior to now 11 main tournaments. He can also develop into solely the third man in tennis historical past with a minimum of two titles from every of the 4 Grand Slam occasions. The age hole between Djokovic and Tsitsipas is the biggest for a French Open males’s remaining since Mats Wilander, 17, defeated Guillermo Vilas, 29, in 1982.
And within the girls’s doubles remaining Sunday, newly topped singles champion Barbora Krejcikova will attempt to develop into the primary lady since Mary Pierce in 2000 to win each occasions at Roland Garros. Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova face 2020 singles champion Iga Swiatek and Bethanie Mattek-Sands for the doubles championship.
SUNDAY’S FORECAST
Sunny. Excessive of 82 levels Fahrenheit (28 Celsius).
SATURDAY’S WEATHER
Cloudy. Excessive of 73 levels Fahrenheit (23 Celsius).
SATURDAY’S KEY RESULTS
Girls’s Singles Ultimate: Unseeded Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic beat No. 31 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-1, 2-6, 6-Four to win her first Grand Slam title.
Males’s Doubles Ultimate: Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut beat Alexander Bublik and Andrey Golubev 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-Four for his or her fifth Grand Slam title as a pair, together with two at Roland Garros.
STAT OF THE DAY
6 — Consecutive French Opens to finish with a first-time Grand Slam champion profitable the ladies’s singles title. Krejcikova follows Garbiñe Muguruza (2016), Jelena Ostapenko (2017), Simona Halep (2018), Ash Barty (2019) and Iga Swiatek (2020). Muguruza and Halep have gone on to win different main trophies.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I don’t know. Who is aware of? I imply, I simply need to be me. I simply don’t need to change. I simply need to nonetheless be me.” — Krejcikova, requested whether or not her life goes to vary now that she is a significant singles champion.