Novak Djokovic will look to succeed in his fifteenth consecutive French Open quarterfinal on Monday as he units an undesirable report at Roland Garros. The defending champion and 24-time Grand Slam title winner reached the final 16 by beating Italy's Lorenzo Musetti in a five-set thriller that ended at 3:07 a.m. on Sunday. It was the most recent match ever at Roland Garros. “I believe some issues may have been dealt with in a different way,” stated Djokovic, 37. “If it's the final match of the event, it's a unique magnificence to win a match at three within the morning, but it surely didn't occur.”
On Monday, three-time French Open champion Djokovic will face twenty third seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina for a spot within the final eight.
The win would give him a report 370th Grand Slam match win.
Cerundolo and Djokovic have by no means confronted one another earlier than, however the Argentine reached the quarter-finals earlier this season by beating world quantity 4 Alexander Zverev on clay in Madrid.
The 25-year-old additionally made the final 16 in Paris in 2023, the place he misplaced to Denmark's Holger Rune in 5 units.
Zverev, who defeated 14-time champion Rafael Nadal within the first spherical, was given a tricky struggle by Tallon Griekspoor within the third spherical, the place he got here again from 4-1 down within the remaining set.
The 27-year-old German is taking part in within the shadow of his ongoing trial in Berlin for assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
Zverev is into the fourth spherical at Roland Garros for the seventh consecutive yr and is the one participant to have reached the semi-finals on the final three French Opens.
Rune, a two-time quarterfinalist in Paris, defeated Zverev in straight units of their solely earlier assembly on clay in Munich in 2022.
Fifth seed Russian participant Daniil Medvedev will face eleventh seed Alex de Minaur of Australia.
Former US Open champion Medvedev reached the quarterfinals in 2021, ending a streak of 4 consecutive first-round losses.
Casper Ruud, who completed runner-up to Nadal after which Djokovic the previous two years, will tackle Taylor Fritz for a spot within the quarter-finals.
Fritz hit 56 winners to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis in a five-set third-round match on Saturday.
– Sabalenka in acquainted territory –
Within the ladies's event, world quantity two Aryna Sabalenka, who was a semi-finalist in 2023 and has made at the least the final 4 in her final six Grand Slams, will face twenty second seed Emma Navarro of the USA.
The 23-year-old Navarro has reached the final 16 of a Grand Slam for the primary time.
Navarro defeated fellow American and up to date Strasbourg clay-court champion Madison Keys within the third spherical.
Former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, seeded fourth and the one girl to beat world primary Iga Swiatek on clay this season, will face skilled Ukrainian fifteenth seed Elina Svitolina.
Moscow-born French participant Varvara Gracheva will face 17-year-old Russian teenager Mira Andreva, the youngest girl to succeed in the final 16 in any respect three Grand Slam occasions since Anna Kournikova in 1998.
“I do know Varvara very properly. We've been practising collectively for nearly two years, so I do know what to anticipate. She's at an excellent stage for the time being,” Andreeva stated of her 88th-ranked opponent.
Within the different final 16 match on Monday, Russia's Elina Avanesyan will face twelfth seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy.
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