Tennis, Roland Garros: Zverev in the semifinals. Women: Brazil celebrates thanks to Haddad Maia

A year after the serious ankle injury, and for the third time in a row, Alexander Zverev reaches the semifinals of Roland Garros. The 26-year-old German tennis player, seeded number 22, overcame Argentinean Tomas Martin in the quarterfinals Etcheverry in four sets, with the score 6-4 3-6 6-3 6-4. An empty passage, then all easy or almost for the Hamburg talent, who is now waiting for a place in the last act one between the Norwegian Casper Ruud (4) and the Danish Holger Runes (6). In the other semifinal the super challenge between the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz (1) and Serbian Novak Djokovic (3).

Historic Haddad Maia: A Brazilian semi-finalist after 57 years

The women’s tournament, on the other hand, is ‘tinged’ with green and gold. Brazilian fans go wild in the stands of the “Philippe Chatrier” for a new feat by their darling, capable of bringing “tennis carioca” back to the penultimate act in Paris 57 years after Maria Good (and male 22 years after “Guga” Kuerten). Beatriz Haddad Maya he’s in the semifinals and virtually enters the top ten for the first time in his career. In the quarterfinals, the 27-year-old left-handed from San Paolo, n.12 in the ranking and 14 in the seeding, beat the Tunisian Ons 3-6 7-6 (5) 6-1 after almost two and a half hours of battle. Jabeur, n. 7 WTA and 7th seed, becoming the first Brazilian tennis player to reach the semifinals on clay in Paris in the Open Era. And to think that before this tournament “Bia” had never gone beyond the second round in a Grand Slam.

Swiatek folds Gauff again in remake of 2022 final

Haddad Maia will now have to deal with the n. 1 in the world and on the board, Iga Swiatek, who for the third time in the last 4 years is in the semifinals on the Paris red clay, where he boasts a record of 26 wins against 2 defeats: he’s in a positive streak for 12 games and seems to have no intention of stopping. In the quarterfinals, which proposed the replay of last year’s final (won 6-1, 6-3, ed), the 22-year-old from Warsaw, defeated the American Coco by 6-4 6-2 in just under an hour and a half of play Gauff, n.6 in the ranking and seeding, finalist 12 months ago. Swiatek scored 19 winners against 15 free (13 against 23 the balance of his opponent), and converted 4 breakpoints out of 5 (Gauff only 1 out of 5) but above all he obtained 75% of the points with the second service (the US only 44%). In the semifinal of the lower part, the challenge between the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (2) and the Czech Karolina Muchova.