Tennis: Thanasi Kokkinakis edged out compatriot and close friend Alexei Popyrin in five sets in an all-Australian opening-round battle in Paris.
Kokkinakis downs Popyrin in Aussie clash | 00:20World No. 1 Iga Swiatek and Naomi Osaka played one of the matches of the year overnight at the French Open, but you wouldn’t have known by the size of the crowd in the stadium.
The Swiatek-Osaka match was played between 5.30pm and 8.30pm local time in the day session, which is ticketed separately to the night session. He added: “Don’t exactly know how you ensure there aren’t empty seats , but this is a terrible shame when thousands of tennis deprived fans saw nothing.” Currently, the French Open only holds one match in the night session — on Wednesday it was a contest between Jannik Sinner and Frenchman Richard Gasquet, who lost potentially his last match at his home grand slam.
“In first and second set I felt like I’m not completely in the zone. When I was under the biggest pressure I was able actually to switch that and maybe that made the difference.” Swiatek is attempting to become only the fourth woman in the Open era to lift four Roland Garros titles and just the second — after Serena Williams — to complete the clay-court treble of Madrid, Rome and French Opens in the same season.
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