It took until the fourth round, but now the seeds are the ones who eliminate Roland-Garros.
Second-placed Daniil Medvedev lost 6-2 6-3 6-2 to 20th seed Marin Cilic in a match between the two former US Open champions at Court Philippe Chatrier on Monday night.
Medvedev joins fourth-placed Stefanos Tsitsipas, runner-up last year, in dropping out of the standings.
While only three of the top 10 female seeds have made it to the French Open knockout stages this year, the top 12 have. All eight men were in the fourth round.
Watch Medvedev go down in straight sets against Cilic:
World number 2 Medvedev falls in straight sets against Cilic at Roland-Garros
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French Open champion Marin Cilic beat world number two Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in the fourth round.
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Medvedev is the defending US Open champion, but he was 0-4 at Roland Garros until he reached the quarter-finals a year ago. This time the Russian won every set he played until he faced Croatian Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, who has now reached the quarter-finals for the third time in 16 matches. in Paris.
Cilic’s next challenger is Russian seventh seed Andrey Rublev. They will face off on Wednesday with a semi-final spot on the line.
Tsitsipas was expelled by Ron
Young Dane Holger Ron knocked out 2021 French Open runner-up Tsitsipas to reach his first quarter-final on his Roland Garros debut.
Ron, the 40th seed, defeated fourth seed Greece 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-4 at Court Philippe Chatrier on Monday.
Tsitsipas was the first member of the top eight to leave the men’s ranks.
Ron hadn’t won a Grand Slam match until last week, going 0-2 in previous matches in the sport’s top four events.
Watch | Return runes to take the fourth and final set:
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Danish teenager Holger Ron surprises French Open 2021 finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas
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Denmark’s Holger Ron beat Greece’s fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to become the first Danish player to reach the quarter-finals at Roland Garros.
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But the 19-year-old now joins sixth seed Carlos Alcaraz for the first men’s quarter-final teen slam tournament since Hendrik Drakemann and Andrei Medvedev at the 1994 French Open.
Ron struggled to close things down in Tsitsipas after taking a 5-2 lead in the fourth set. Ron has dropped nine points in a row and cut his lead to 5-4. Then it took him three break points to save before the biggest victory of his career.
Ron will face Norway’s No. 8 seed Kasper Ruud in the semifinals.
Rudd makes Norwegian tennis history
Ruud reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career by beating Hubert Hurkacz 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 at Roland Garros.
The eighth seed, Ruud, is the first Norwegian player to reach the quarter-finals of Roland-Garros.
The 12th seed Hurkacz qualified for the semi-finals at Wimbledon last year. He had lost in the first round of Roland-Garros in three consecutive matches.
Elsewhere, Rafael Nadal failed to secure his favorite in his impressive quarter-final match against French Open seed Novak Djokovic.
Swiatek drops out of group, extends winning streak
Iga Swiatek’s 20-game winning streak is over. It doesn’t matter, because his winning streak in the game is now at 32.
Seeded Swiatek excelled on an unusually problematic streak and came back to defeat 19-year-old Chinese Cheng Chenwen 6-7(5) 6-0, 6-2 on Monday in the fourth round at Roland Garros.
Swiatek, the 2020 French Open champion, took a 3-0 5-2 lead in the first set but couldn’t finish it, dropping five set points in total. In the tiebreaker, Swiatek scored five straight points to lead 5-2, and 74th seed Cheng responded by taking the next five.
It was the first group Swiatek had offered since April 23.
Zheng’s movement was not good at the start of the second set and she took medical time to stick her right leg in the 3-0 loss. Swiatek has won eight straight to own the second set and leads 2-0 in the third set and won’t let the lead slip away.
When he finished, I shouted “Come on!” She shook her right fist.
Swiatek hasn’t lost a match since February, winning five titles in a row. No woman has won more in a row since Serena Williams completed 34 consecutive matches in 2013.
Swatik will advance to the quarter-finals, seeded 11th to American Jessica Pegula.
Nadal and Djokovic in the spotlight
The 13-time Roland Garros champion wanted a day game on Tuesday to avoid somewhat slower conditions on clay at night. But the organizers made it the highlight of the evening of the 10th, scheduled for 8:45 p.m., after negotiating with the rights broadcasters so that all viewers in France could watch the retransmission of the match for free.
Nadal beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in five sets in the fourth round on Sunday to set a record against Djokovic 59.
Watch | Nadal beats Auger Aliassime in excitement:
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Nadal beats Auger-Aliassime at Roland-Garros
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Rafael Nadal had to battle for a five-set victory over Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and will now face Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals.
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He has a win-loss total of 109-3 at Roland Garros. Two of those three defeats in Paris have come against Djokovic, including in the semi-finals last year.
Nadal won the Australian Open in January with a record 21st Grand Slam for men, breaking a tie with Djokovic and Roger Federer. Djokovic missed the tournament after being kicked out of Australia for not being vaccinated against COVID-19.
Pegola is the third American in the quarter-finals
Jessica Pegula reached the French Open quarter-finals for the first time after coming back to defeat Irina-Camelia Bejo 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Pegula joins two other Americans in the quarterfinals in Paris, where Coco Gauff and Sloane Stephens face off on Tuesday.
Pegula, 26, ranks 11th at Roland Garros. His two previous rounds for the Grand Slam quarter-finals were at the Australian Open – in January and last year.
Pegula arrived in Paris with a 2-3 career record on clay and a third-round appearance.
She needed 10 game points to seal her first-round victory and eight in the second round last week.
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