PARIS (Reuters) -Highlights of the sixth day at the French Open on Friday (times GMT):
0912 PLAY UNDER WAY
Play began with the sun shining and the temperature hovering around 23 degrees Celsius. It is a hot day at Roland Garros, with a real feel of 27-31 degrees.
Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen takes on Canada’s Victoria Mboko in the women’s third round on Court Simonne-Mathieu. Italian eighth seed Lorenzo Musetti is playing Argentina’s Mariano Navone in the men’s third round on Court Suzanne-Lenglen
Top seed Aryna Sabalenka, and four-times winner Iga Swiatek are in action later, while defending champion Carlos Alcaraz continues his quest for a fifth Grand Slam crown.
FRENCH OPEN ORDER OF PLAY ON FRIDAY (prefix number denotes seeding)
COURT PHILIPPE-CHATRIER (play begins at 1000 GMT)
1-Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) v Olga Danilovic (Serbia)
Quentin Halys (France) v 10-Holger Rune (Denmark)
4-Jasmine Paolini (Italy) v Yuliia Starodubtseva (Ukraine)
Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia & Herzegovina) v 2-Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
COURT SUZANNE-LENGLEN (play begins at 0900 GMT)
8-Lorenzo Musetti (Italy) v Mariano Navone (Argentina)
Jaqueline Cristian (Romania) v 5-Iga Swiatek (Poland)
12-Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) v 21-Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)
15-Frances Tiafoe (U.S.) v 23-Sebastian Korda (U.S.)
COURT SIMONNE-MATHIEU (play begins at 0900 GMT)
Victoria Mboko (Canada) v 8-Zheng Qinwen (China)
24-Karen Khachanov (Russia) v 12-Tommy Paul (U.S.)
13-Ben Shelton (U.S.) v Matteo Gigante (Gigante)
Bernarda Pera (U.S.) v 13-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)
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(Reporting by Shifa Jahan in BengaluruEditing by Christian Radnedge)
