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Salut! And welcome to Roland-Garros 2023 – day 11! Who will join Karolína Muchová and Aryna Sabalenka; Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz in the last four?
As yesterday, we begin with two women’s quarter-finals, and both look tasty in the extreme. This may be the first time Beatriz Haddad Maia has reached this stage of a major, but she’s playing like someone whose penny has dropped. Her patient, powerful, adroit, lefty game game looks in terrific order, and if she hits the level she produced in the second set of her last-16 match against Sara Sorribes Tormo, she has a chance of causing an upset. However Ons Jabeur has already passed the stage she’s currently at, now a fixture at the business end of things, and her combination of guile, hands and hitting looks a potent antidote to what the Brazilian brings.
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Second on we’ve a potential classic. Iga Swiatek is the defending French Open champion, the US Open champion and the best player in the world … and Coco Gauff is surging, poised to finally fulfil her potential. If her backhand is working and her forehand is working well enough, she has the game to cause plenty of problems but most importantly of all, the way she’s carrying herself tells you she believes her time is now.
And finally this afternoon we’ve Alexander Zverev, still working his way back after injury, against Tomás Martín Etcheverry. If we’re being real, neither looks a potential winner, but both are hitting it nicely … and obscenely hard. The former has dropped just one set so far this competition and beaten both Francis Tiafoe and Griggzy Dimitrov, while the latter, a clay-court specialist, has yet to concede at all, having seen off Alex De Minaur, Borna Coric and Yoshihito Nishioka.
Or, put another way, we’ve got another terrific day in store. On y va!
