French Open 2025: Raducanu v Swiatek, Sabalenka and Alcaraz in action on day four

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Ons Jabeur, who lost in the first round yesterday, has called out organisers for not scheduling women’s matches in the night slot, saying: “I don’t think they have daughters.” Last year all 11 prime-time matches featured men, and that’s been the case too for the first four days of this year’s tournament – tonight 12th seed Holger Rune will face the American world No 137 Emilio Nava – so it’s hardly the contest of the day. Why couldn’t, say, Swiatek and Raducanu have played their match this evening? What’s more baffling about the French Open’s stance is that Amelie Mauresmo – who does have a daughter – is the tournament director. You’d think she’d be more keen to promote the women’s game.

The players are out on another overcast day in Paris, so expect heavy conditions again. Among the early starters: the Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen, the red-hot Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the Canadian teenage winning machine Victoria Mboko, the French Open giantkiller Daniel Altmaier, the American former semi-finalist Amanda Anisimova, the Australian 25th seed Alexei Popyrin and Argentina’s clay-court slugger Francisco Cerundolo.

Meanwhile on TNT Sports, Chrissie Evert, Tim Henman, Laura Robson and Anne Keothavong have some important business to discuss: Nike’s 2025 French Open rugby vibe vs Adidas’s neon highlighter tops. Doesn’t sound as if they’re massively impressed with either tbh.

Play didn’t finish until past midnight as Gael Monfils treated his home crowd to a comeback from two sets to love down, with the 38-year-old eventually seeing off Bolivia’s Hugo Dellien 4-6, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-1 – despite crashing into the advertising boards during the first set and needing a medical timeout for treatment to his hand, knee and back. The 2008 semi-finalist will face Jack Draper next. Ever the showman, there were so many highlights last night, but here’s one of them:

Before we get going, here’s what happened yesterday:

Today’s order of play on the main courts

Preamble

Bonjour mesdames et messieurs! Pour votre plaisir aujourd’hui: defending champions Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek, who faces Emma Raducanu in the second round; the title favourite Aryna Sabalenka; former runners-up Jasmine Paolini, Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas; the in-form Lorenzo Musetti and Zheng Qinwen, who both deserve at least a mention in the title conversation; 2017 champ Jelena Ostapenko; honorary Frenchwoman Elina Svitolina; plus Elena Rybakina, Holger Rune and Daniel Altmaier, who took out Taylor Fritz in the first round, but there are still plenty of Americans in Paris today, including Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe, Amanda Anisimova and Danielle Collins.

D’accord? Tres bien! L’action commence: 11h à Paris/10am BST.