Tennis-French Open Day Seven
May 31 - Highlights of the seventh day at the French Open on Saturday :
0912 PLAY UNDER WAY
Play began under cloudy skies with the temperature hovering around 22 degrees Celsius. It is a humid day at Roland Garros, with light showers forecast.
Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva, seeded sixth, takes on Kazakh Yulia Putintseva in the women's third round on Court Suzanne-Lenglen.
Russian 17th seed Andrey Rublev advanced to the fourth round without hitting a ball after his French opponent, Arthur Fils, withdrew from today's clash due to a back injury.
Novak Djokovic will headline the night session, while world number one Jannik Sinner and top seeds including Alexander Zverev, Jack Draper, Coco Gauff and Madison Keys are also in action.
FRENCH OPEN ORDER OF PLAY ON SATURDAY :
COURT PHILIPPE-CHATRIER
Marketa Vondrousova v 3-Jessica Pegula
3-Alexander Zverev v Flavio Cobolli
Marie Bouzkova v 2-Coco Gauff
6-Novak Djokovic v Filip Misolic
COURT SUZANNE-LENGLEN
6-Mirra Andreeva v 32-Yulia Putintseva
1-Jannik Sinner v Jiri Lehecka
7-Madison Keys v 31-Sofia Kenin
COURT SIMONNE-MATHIEU
17-Daria Kasatkina v 10-Paula Badosa
Elsa Jacquemot v Lois Boisson
Joao Fonseca v 5-Jack Draper
Cameron Norrie v Jacob Fearnley
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