By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday Could 31, 2025
Paris – American tennis has smashed a file that stood for 40 years at Roland-Garros. Eight People – 5 girls, three males – have reached the singles Spherical of 16 on the French Open for the primary time in 40 years.
The final time the Roland-Garros fourth spherical featured eight or extra American gamers was 1985, additionally with 5 girls and three males.
On the ladies’s facet, Coco Gauff, Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula, Amanda Anisimova and Hailey Baptiste reached the fourth spherical. On the lads’s facet, Tommy Paul, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe made it by way of.
The American males have positioned three within the second week for the primary time since 1995. All three People will probably be in motion on Sunday in Paris, with Shelton taking over Alcaraz, Paul going through Alexei Popyrin and Tiafoe going through Daniel Altmaier.
On the ladies’s facet, Anisimova will face Aryna Sabalenka on Sunday.
Keys will face Baptiste in an all-American conflict on Monday, Pegula will tackle France’s Loic Boisson, whereas Gauff will face Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia.
