Matteo Arnaldi's journey continues in Paris. The Italian tennis player beat and eliminated the world number 6, the Russian Andrey Rublev, in just three sets. Having won the first at the tie break, Arnaldi won the next two 6-2, 6-4, reaching the round of 16. His next opponent will be Stefanos Tsitsipas or the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang.
Three sets to zero also for Jannik Sinner. The South Tyrolean number 2 in the world and in the scoreboard reaches the round of 16 of Roland Garros by overcoming the Russian Pavel Kotov, already beaten recently in Madrid, 6-4 6-4 6-4. Sinner, who will be world number 1 after Roland Garros regardless of Djokovic's results reaching the final or if the Serbian exits before the semi-final.