In the opening day of the wheelchair singles matches, doubles partners Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid won their first-round ties to set up an all-British quarter-final against each other. The second seed will play Karolina Muchova in the last four, after the Czech reached her first French Open semi-final with a straight-set victory over former Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. On the women's side of the draw, Aryna Sabalenka kept her hopes of a second successive Grand Slam alive when she beat Ukraine's Elina Svitolina 6-4 6-4.Īfter her win, Belarusian Sabalenka resumed her regular media duties and said she does not support her president Alexander Lukashenko 'right now' because of his backing of Russia's war in Ukraine. So we've just seen world number one Carlos Alcaraz triumph over Stefanos Tsitsipas to set up an epic semi-final tie against 22-time major winner Novak Djokovic.Įarlier on Tuesday, Djokovic survived a quarter-final scare from Karen Khachanov, winning 4-6 7-6 (7-0) 6-2 6-4.
