Tournament director Amelie Mauresmo has addressed the lack of women’s matches in the night sessions of the French Open. The competition was a week old when the first women’s match – Aryna Sabalenka v Sloane Stephens – finally took centre stage on Court Philippe-Chatrier as the late match. Ad It has created plenty of debate with Eurosport expert Mats Wilander describing the situation as “ridiculous”.
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“The choices aren’t easy to make and you have to take a lot of things into consideration. Tonight is the perfect match to promote women’s tennis and I look forward to these girls giving us a big show and a big fight. Aryna Sabalenka withstands brave Sloane Stephens fightback Elina Svitolina ousts Daria Kasatkina to book quarter-final place Novak Djokovic awaiting return of great rival Rafael Nadal — 'we want to see a healthy Rafa' “We definitely talked about it [having two night matches] and there was a debate around the men’s matches v women’s matches in the evening.
«There are a few things I wanted to avoid — I don’t think we can put five matches on Philippe Chatrier in the whole day. So, it would mean we would have only two matches in the day and two in the evening for evening ticket holders which would start at six or seven o’clock. »I don’t think the crowd will be in their
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