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Casper Ruud survived a brief scare against Zhizhen Zhang to move into the fourth round 4-6 6-4 6-1 6-4. Fourth seed Casper Ruud was the favourite going into the match, and one of the most leading players in the tournament given the absence of Rafael Nadal. Ad On Thursday in his second-round match, he needed four sets against Giulio Zeppieri and there were signs of struggles early on against Zhang.
Rafael Nadal underwent surgery on Friday evening in a bid to discover the extent of his hip problem.
Rafael Nadal underwent an arthroscopic intervention on Friday to assess the hip injury which has kept him out of competition since the Australian Open in January with the result to be known on Saturday, the day of his 37th birthday.
Novak Djokovic battled into the French Open fourth round for a 14th consecutive year on Friday as Carlos Alcaraz also progressed, after women's third seed Jessica Pegula and men's seventh-ranked Andrey Rublev were dumped out of the tournament. Djokovic has made headlines for his comments about Kosovo this week but his on-court progress has been relatively serene, reaching the second week without dropping a set. The Serb star was made to work hard by Spanish 29th seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who served for the first set and missed a set point in the second, but won 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 on Court Philippe Chatrier.
Rafael Nadal underwent an arthroscopic intervention on Friday to assess the hip injury which has kept him out of competition since the Australian Open in January with the result to be known on Saturday, the day of his 37th birthday. Nadal said last month that the injury has not healed as well as he had hoped and therefore he was taking more time out of the sport. The Spaniard missed the ongoing French Open, which he has won 14 times, for the first time since 2004.
We are into the third round of the French Open and Day 7 promises much as the likes of Iga Swiatek, Holger Rune and Alexander Zverev are set to continue their campaigns in Paris as the second week of the tournament begins. Day 6 saw Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka among those to book their places in the fourth round of Roland-Garros.
Rafael Nadal has had arthroscopic surgery to treat his psoas muscle, his representative has said. The results of the surgery are expected on Saturday.
PARIS — Rafael Nadal had arthroscopic surgery Friday night for the injured left hip flexor that forced him to sit out the French Open for the first time since he won the first of his record 14 titles there in his 2005 tournament debut.