PARIS (Reuters) – Highlights of the ninth day at the French Open, the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Monday (all times GMT):
1620 DJOKOVIC POWERS PAST KHACHANOV
World number one Novak Djokovic struck 44 winners to put away Russia’s Karen Khachanov 6-4 6-3 6-3 and reach his 14th quarter-final at Roland Garros.
1320 TSITSIPAS EASES PAST DIMITROV
Fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas becomes the first Greek player to reach the French Open quarter-finals with a 6-3 7-6(9) 6-2 victory over Bulgaria’s number 18 seed Grigor Dimitrov.
1310 RUBLEV SEALS COMEBACK WIN
Hamburg Open champion Andrey Rublev recovered from a slow start to beat Hungarian Marton Fucsovics 6-7(4) 7-5 6-4 7-6(3).
The 13th seeded Russian won 11 of the last 14 points to reach his maiden Roland Garros quarter-final.
1054 SIEGEMUND PASSES BADOSA TEST
Unseeded German Laura Siegemund beat Spaniard Paula Badosa 7-5 6-2 to reach her maiden Grand Slam quarter-final.
1035 KVITOVA POWERS PAST ZHANG
Double Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova made short work of China’s Zhang Shuai, winning 6-2 6-4 to make the last eight. The Czech seventh seed’s best finish at Roland Garros was reaching the semi-finals eight years ago.
0908 PLAY UNDERWAY AT ROLAND GARROS
Action began at Roland Garros on a cloudy day with the temperature hovering around 12 degrees Celsius (53.6°F). Rain is expected later.
Top seed Novak Djokovic meets Karen Khachanov of Russia and Grigor Dimitrov faces fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas later.
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar and Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond and Christian Radnedge)
