Just like last year, Carlos Alcaraz y Stefanos Tsitsipas They face each other this Tuesday in the quarterfinals of Roland Garrosin a night session that will see two of the favorites in action to raise the Musketeers Cup.
The Greek, number 9 in the world, will take the field Philippe Chatrier hoping to beat Carlitos for the first time, number 3 in the world who won the five previous matches between the two.
“He still hasn’t beaten me in the games we’ve played, I won them all. It doesn’t mean I have to play at 50%, but I know what I have to do tactically,” Alcaraz said on Sunday after his victory against the Canadian Happy Auger-Also (21°).
Tsitsipas, however, is launched this season, after a sensational campaign on clay in which he won the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 in mid-April and after reaching the final at the ATP 500 in Barcelona.
On the Parisian clay, the 25-year-old Greek is having a solid tournament, although in the round of 16 he needed to “get his act together” against the Italian Matteo Arnaldi (35°).
He will need to maintain that attitude against Alcaraz on Tuesday, an opponent who defeated him for the first time in the third round of the 2023 US Open, when Tsitsipas was world number 3. On clay, the Murcian surpassed him with ease last year in the final of the ATP 500 Barcelona and, weeks later, in the quarterfinals of the Parisian Grand Slam.
“He said that, because of our past, he liked playing against me. I hope he likes it less this time. I also hope to be able to take advantage of this opportunity and make him not so comfortable against me, that is the goal I have set for myself,” he replied. the Greek
When both take to the court, they will do so knowing the rival they would have to face in the semifinals. The Italian Jannik Sinner (2nd) part as favorite against the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (N.10).
On Tuesday the Pole will also take to the center court. Every Swiatek, number 1 in the world and winner of three of the last four editions of Roland Garros. Her last obstacle before the semifinals is the Czech Marketa Vondrousova (6th). The opening match of the day will feature two talented players: the American Coco Gauff (3rd) and the Tunisian Our Jabeur (8°).
Main matches of the 10th day of Roland Garros:
Starting at 6.00: Coco Gauff (USA/N.3) – Ons Jabeur (TUN/N.8)
Not before 7.30: Iga Swiatek (POL/N.1) – Marketa Vondrousova (CZE/N.5)
Next: Grigor Dimitrov (BUL/N.10) – Jannik Sinner (ITA/N.2)
Not before 3:15 p.m.: Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE/N.9) – Carlos Alcaraz (ESP/N.3)
Second round: Tomas Machac (CzE) and Zhizhen Zhang (CHI) – Maximo Gonzalez (ARG/N.8) and Andres Molteni (ARG/N.8)
Last round: Miyu Kato (JPN) and Tim Puetz (ALE) – Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR) and Maximo Gonzalez (ARG)
Second round: Gustavo Fernández (ARG/N.8) vs Takashi Sanada