Monday, June 5, 2023 – 11:31 PM
Paris, June 5, WAM/ Polish tennis players Iga Schwatek and Tunisian Anas Jaber continued their breakthrough in the French Open (Roland Garros), the second of the four major “Grand Slam” tournaments in the current season, and the two players qualified for the quarter-finals of the tournament today.
And Schwatek, the defending champion and world number one, booked her seat in the quarter-finals without trouble, as her Ukrainian opponent, Lesya Cherenko, withdrew when Schwatek was leading 5-1 in the first set of the match.
Schwatec set a date with sixth-seeded American Coco Gauff in the quarter-finals; Gauff qualified for the same round by defeating Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmidlova 7-5, 6-2 in another match today in the round of 16 of the tournament.
Tunisian Anas Jaber, the seventh seed, qualified for the quarter-finals by defeating American Bernarda Pera 6-3, 6-1. In the quarter-finals, Anas Jaber will meet Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maya, who defeated Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-7, 6-3, 7-5. .
In the men’s competition, Norwegian Casper Rudd, the fourth seed, defeated Chilean Nicholas Jarry 7-6, 7-5, 7-5, and Danish Holger Rohn, the sixth seed, defeated Argentine Francisco Serundolo 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6. .
Reda Abdel Nour / Ahmed Zahran
2023-06-05 19:34:46
#Schwatec #Anas #Jabeur #qualified #quarterfinals #Roland #Garros