Roland Garros 2026 might be the most chaotic slam YET (Day 5 Recap)

Roland Garros 2026 continues to make its case for being the most chaotic slam tennis tournament in recent history. Massive title favorite Jannik Sinner lost his title bid in a shocking five-set collapse to Juan Manuel Cerundolo despite being four points from victory. Sinner was (once again) accused of receiving special treatment after being granted a mid-game medical evaluation. Ben Shelton also lost early, giving Frances Tiafoe the prime opportunity to reach his maiden slam final. Moise Kouame is making himself a household name following an epic five-set win vs Daniel Vallejo. Meanwhile, Serena Williams is rumored to be making a comeback next month in doubles alongside Victoria Mboko.

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We witnessed one of the biggest shocks in tennis history on Wednesday at Rolling Girls. Really, arguably the upset of the century. And that is, of course, none other than Elisa Murna's losing to Maya Halinska. I was shocked. I'm I'm trolling, y'all. I'm obviously talking about Yannick Sinner bowing out in round two to Juan Emmanuel Sodondalo. I'll discuss Sinner's exit and the controversies surrounding his medical evaluation in the third set. Share who I think has the best shot at taking advantage of this seismic shock and talk the latest reports of Serena Williams' comeback, which is set to happen in less than two weeks. Bonjour, JMF of Christian Bass Knight at Benvenue LA Christian's Court, where I cover tennis from all angles. If you have not yet already, make sure you subscribe and click the notification bell so you are notified whenever I post more content. And if you are new, I'm dressed all crazy like this because my real ones know that whenever something crazy happens on the tour, I dress crazy accordingly. I haven't dressed crazy really since the Australian Open Semifinals, but I feel like definitely day five Rolling Girls recap deserves it all. So to give you all the framework, which I'm sure most of you know, Yannick Sinner was trying to become the first man since Rafa Nadal in 2010 to sweep all the big clay titles in a single season. He was as big of a favorite as Rafa was in the late 2000s and early 2010s, riding a 30-match win streak. And he also had a really great draw. It was clear that really no one, it felt like really no one could challenge him, at least until the finals. So imagine my shock when I woke up at 10 a.m. today. I was already on high alert because I had snoozed my alarm and my dentist appointment was at 10 a.m. So I was obviously late. So as I rushed to get dressed and go out the door, I just checked my phone and the rolling girl scores, and I see that world number 56, Juan Emmanuel Sarondalo, defeats Yannick Center 3626-756161. I ended up missing my dentist appointment because I stood in shock for five minutes straight. For the full breakdown, I will toss it over now to Christian from the past. This was crazy. And everyone really knew coming into Roland Garros this tournament that the heat and fatigue would be Yannick's biggest obstacle. It would be an even bigger factor too with the record heat wave and heat temperatures in Paris in this first week. Yannick was first on today, and usually the first onslaught is reserved for the woman. But Yannick likely requested for him to play this time because he probably wasn't gonna get the night session. And with the night session, normally a French player plays it or it's a marquee matchup between two top players. But noon was also the coolest time of the day, which is why he likely requested this time. And Yannick he seemed fine overall in the match until around 4-1 in the third set. And he noticeably looked like he was struggling physically. He was shaking out his legs, it looked like cramps, and things progressively got worse for the world number one. Yannick said in his press conference that he woke up not feeling well at the start of the day. He said he didn't sleep great the night before. And he said that while he was still playing pretty well initially in the match, he felt worse in the middle of the third set. Sinner said he started to feel dizzy and was low of energy and did not have enough to serve off the match both times in the third set, which was evident through his poorly executed serving volleys and drop shots. Yannick also said he kind of gave away the fourth set and tried to conserve energy for the deciding set. And a lot of people interpreted this as a heat-related issue. Yannick has struggled with the heat and humidity rather recently in Melbourne this year and in Shanghai, but Yannick made it abundantly clear in his press conference that his struggles weren't so much heat related. He said it was warm, but not crazy warm. I feel like it was quite okay to play. It was nothing against the heat, nothing against the weather. It was just me today. I do still think the heat and humidity played a role. The temperature also rose as the match progressed. I also think maybe Yannick could be maybe trying to save face just a little bit. I'm not saying he's lying, but I think he's well aware of the reputation of heat and him not faring as well and the warmer temperatures. But regardless, I still think people are gonna feel that heat played a role. Sure, you can maybe have a conversation about conditioning. Also, maybe if he played last match on Suzanne Longland instead of earlier in the day, things could have been different. But again, this seems to be more about fatigue. And I think what Yannick did the last few months was utterly ridiculous, unprecedented. We probably would never see anything like it again. A player winning five 1000s in less than three months, 30 matches. And yes, he only lost three sets in that span. But four of the five 1000 tournaments that he won this year were extended, 12-day long 1000 tournaments. Formerly, Rome and Madrid were just a week long, but now they're longer, and I think that takes a further toll on the players. And people felt that he should have skipped Madrid after winning Monte Carlo, and then people said he should have skipped Rome after winning Madrid. I personally felt that he should have skipped Madrid after Monte Carlo. But even though Yannick had a great draw at Roland Garros, it still I think would have been an uphill battle now looking back on it. He just played too much tennis, too much. And Yannick showed that he is human. You simply cannot play every last big tournament. The tennis schedule is not made for that, it's not designed for that dominant run that center went on at all. You're not supposed to win that much in that span, especially again with the extended 1000 tournaments. Yannick was chasing 1000 history and he got it, but in doing so, it cost him the big title, the slam in the career slam. And I'm wondering if it was worth the risk for him. It's crazy to think that despite this being an unbelievable season, Yannick does not have a slam final even to show for it. I still think he'll be a big favorite to take the title and defend his crown at Wimbledon, especially with Carlos Alkadaz being out. He has more time as he won't be playing any tournaments before Wimbledon, he said in the post-match press conference today. But you cannot deny this is going to be a disappointing blow for him. And this was his best shot. It could have been his best shot at winning Roland Garros with his biggest threat, Carlos, not being in the picture. I still think he eventually will win it because even when Carlos was playing, he made the final and was one point away from lifting the trophy. But with him being out, Carlos being out, and this draw, that's a tough, that's tough for Yannick. And I think looking back on it, he might regret playing a 1000 or two. Now I think this is a little bit overshadowed because Yannick eventually lost, but I do have to talk about the accusations and talks of Yannick receiving special treatment in this match. At 5-4, love 40 in the third set. Yannick was struggling a lot with seemingly cramps. And instead of giving the Italian a time violation or a loss of serve, Chair Empire R Lee Tort stopped the serve clock and got out of the chair to speak with Yannick directly. Explained the rules to Yannick that if he's not ready to play, then he gets a warning and then loses his first serve and then points. Yannick told her he thinks it was a dehydration concern, which is when she stopped play immediately, or allowed for play to stop immediately, and Cinner received a medical evaluation and play was stopped for about nine and a half minutes. For basic exhaustion or loss of conditioning, players cannot receive medical attention. But if the player seems to be suffering from a heat illness, the umpire, they can stop play and call for a doctor to have a player be medically evaluated. Now, the thing is that Yannick was taken off court for his medical evaluation, and that raised some eyebrows because typically doctors would come on court to do the evaluation. Players usually only go off court if they're dealing with some type of groin issue and they don't want their nibbles and bits to be shown to the world. But the optics of center being taken off court, presumably into the AC, where he would have better chances of recovering, it was drawing to many people, including Jim Courier, who was commentating the match, and he said the rules are being bent for the top player straight out. I also want to add that players cannot take a medical timeout for cramping. They can be treated for cramps at three changeovers max, each lasting 60 seconds, but they can receive treatment if they're dealing with the simultaneous muscle injury in addition to the cramps. There was a bit of controversy during the Australian Open semifinals between Carlos Alcadas and Alexander Zverev because Alcadas received a medical timeout for an upper leg injury, whereas Zverev thought it was just cramping. So that was a little bit of an issue. I do think though that there is a bit of favoritism at play here, and here's why I say that. Because Jakob Mengik, who played yesterday in a four-hour, 41-minute marathon match against Mariana Navone, he was seemingly dealing with the heat illness. He did not receive this much grace. He was dealing with a different umpire than Center was, but this umpire for Mengik took multiple first serves away from him and wasn't leaning it with the shirt with the serve clock really at all. And this is just my opinion, but I don't think Tort would have gone to this extreme and went down and asked Juan Manuel Sudondalo what was going on and talked him through his options like she did with Yannick. Credit to Juan Manuel though for keeping his composure and really his coach was more upset about it than he was. I think the top players are always going to receive special treatment. They drive the big bucks and they do get special treatment regarding scheduling preferences. We all know that. I think the rules can be tough to apply because players can easily, you know, fake an illness or an injury, and you don't want to give players too much of a pass because illness, injury, and loss of condition, it ultimately is a part of sport. But on the other hand, you do need to protect the health of the player. And if anything, I think the rules should be a little bit more forgiving for the lower ranked players in these scenarios because they need to eat, like give them a chance to come back and play these slam matches where a lot of money is on the line. That's what I have to say about it. On that, let me know in the comments how y'all feel about it. Now, center, I think he would have won this match if he wasn't ill. Juan Manuel basically said the same thing himself that he got lucky. And I still don't want to give a lot of credit to Salandoro because first he's a solid clay court player. He won the Bordeaux Challenger recently, and you can clearly see why Clay is his most successful surface. He hits with a lot of heavy spin, he has a consistent game style, doesn't give opponents too many unforced errors, and I think that helped him stay the course here. He did not overplay, and I think perhaps against a more aggressive-minded opponent, Yannick could have hung in there a little bit more and hoped for errors, but Sarondalo was not giving them to him at all. And despite Yannick being severely hampered, Juan Manuel still had to step up and take this match. In the fourth set, Yannick had three break points at one all. The second one, he kind of slapped a forehand second serve return in the net. And on the third chance for center in this game, Yannick hit a decent backhand approach off of Sarondalo's drop shot. But then Juan Manuel hit this unbelievable log to win the point and get out of trouble. The second one was his best chance. Once again, Yannick hit another backhand approach off a drop shot, but Juan Manuel hit this really great lefty banana passing shot winner. And on the next break point, they had a longer rally, and Yannick's body just gave out midpoint, and that really indicated there that he had no shot at winning this match. And the fifth set, center had a few more chances to get more than just that one game he took away in the fifth set. But Juan Manuel was too solid and continued just making Yannick play longer points and got him moving. I was still waiting for Yannick to feel better at one point, and I thought maybe at 1-4-15-40, Yannick could mount a comeback. He had two break points, but it just was not meant to be. I also do want to mention how Sim Query was talking after the match about on his podcast he refers to Juan Manuel as the bat Sarondalo. Of course, Juan Manuel is a brother of Francisco Sarondalo, who is a top 30 player right now and has accomplished more than Juan Manuel has. I just want to say that's honestly just completely disrespectful. Yes, Francisco is more accomplished, but I just hate how fans and clearly commentators are so disrespectful to lower ranked players. Seeing creators bat mouth players saying they suck, it only fuels more hate in cyberbullying. And where's the nuance? Like, you should know as a player, Sam Quarry, that it's not easy being pro in tennis. The fact that Juan Manuel is a top 70 player in and of itself, top 60, top 70 player, he's a good player. He's not bad. So for you to say bad Sorundolo on the air, it's utterly disrespectful. I have to say that. Maybe you can call me soft or whatever else, but that's disrespectful. But, anyways, I keep thinking also back to reporters during the Australian Open when Yannick got that win over Elliott Spaziri despite struggling with the heat and the roof was ultimately closed. He was asked, like, how much longer do you think your luck will continue? Like, when will your luck run out? Because the reporter also referenced when Yannick was down two sets to love against Rigor Dmitrov at Wimbledon, and then Dmitrov suffered from that peck injury. It's not like karma, because Center didn't do anything wrong, but I think that just goes to show that it can it came back around. I I don't know. But it's crazy again that this happened when Yannick was up 5-1 in the third set, one game away, four points away from the win. This is utterly insane. But that's all I have for me right now. Back to you, Christian from the future. I also want to add that Yannick looked a little bit fatigued. Let me take these off. Uh he looked a little bit fatigued in his match against Dino Medvedev in Rome, and he also wasn't feeling great in Rome before then. So I think maybe this was low-key bound to happen. And I also have a few questions for y'all, the audience. Let me know in the comments if you think that this was more so fatigue or illness with Yannick. Also, how confident are you that Center will win Roland Garros eventually? Could we look back in history maybe if he doesn't win it and see this year as being the big missed opportunity for him to win the career slam? Also, too, where does this one rank in terms of all-time upsets? I see a lot of people say that still Nadal Soderling and Serena Vinci are top two, and I think I agree. But, anyways, obviously the draw is wide open now, and it's gonna be the first slam since 2023 US Open where Syndicat's will not lift the title. And I hate to say it, but the men's side is much more interesting now because it's not so clear that Yannick will win. Yannick was that big of big of a favorite. And as Gil Gross mentioned on X or slash Twitter, it's very similar to the 2020 US Open where Novak was a huge favorite, especially with Nadal out of the picture in that tournament. But then another unexpected factor, his disqualification, changed it all. That tournament was an utter mess, but an entertaining one nonetheless. And we will be guaranteed a first-time Roland Girls finalist, but Terra Berrettini is the only former slam finalist remaining in the top half. And this is why Novak Djokovic is still playing, because he, I think, knew that there's got to be some chance where Yannick and Carlos are not 100% or injured. And this is his perfect chance, I feel. I think right now Alexander Zverev will be the favorite to take the title. But the biggest thing with him is mental because he's so big of a favorite, I feel not overwhelming, but this is by far his best shot at winning a slam. Will he crumble under the pressure? I can see that happening. Then I think Novak for sure, among their as far as title favorites, but his draw is not easy. He gets phoned second next, and then possibly Rude. And a lot of people are talking about Casper Rude being uh a title favorite too. I didn't see many names of guys from the top half of the draw. Ben Shelton was thrown around a little bit for some of at least him making the finals, but he lost his second round match toward number 62, Rafael Colino, 64, 7564, marking his earliest defeat at a major since Womba in 2023. I really did not see Shelton going that deep here, being totally honest. His form post-Munich title was not convincing. He lost his opening round matches at Madrid and Rome, and he also lost his second match in Amborg. His only saving grace to me was his tendency to rise and perform better in the majors, but it just was not enough today against Colinone, who simply outplayed the 23-year-old with a phenomenal performance. The Belgian finished with 31 winners, 13 unforced errors. He also won a whopping 88% of his first serve points, which is really ridiculous considering Ron Clay. That's also 19% points higher than Shelton. And then he also finished with 70% of second serve points won, which is very high as well. Now, in addition to his serve, a lot of Shelton's success hinges on how well he's returning. Because if he makes a solid number of high quality returns, he tends to play well, and vice versa. Now, today his return was honestly pissed poor. He won 19% of his return points, and he struggled to land them at times. And when he did, they often lacked good depth. Now Kalino served well, but it's not like he was hitting these unreturnable bombs. Ben just needed to get the return in at some parts, and Shelton generated zero, zero break points for himself in this match, which is ridiculous. It's crazy. There was also a big discrepancy in net points won as Kalino won 15 out of his 17 net points, whereas Shelton was 15 from 31 at the net, which is not great at all. I think Shelton's approaches and passing shots were far inferior, of course, to Rafael's. And I also want to reiterate that Colino played great. And I really should have known that he'd be dangerous. He did skip both Madrid and Rome, but he has had a lot of success this year, especially on the surface. He won a challenger title in Monza and made the finals recently of Bordeaux, losing to Juan Manuel Surondolo, but still a massive, massive missed opportunity for Shelton with center being out because Yannick was his kryptonite. And I feel like this loss raises further questions of if Ben should add another voice to his bot. I think it's definitely something for him to consider. I'm not really saying he needs to get rid of his father, Brian Shelton, but maybe add another prominent voice. I feel like parrot coach partnerships can only go so far. Case in point, CeCpause. Hodar, Rafa Hodar, he is currently primarily coached by his dad. We'll see how long that lasts. But let me know in the comments if you think that Ben should indeed add another coach to his team. And if so, who would you like to see that coach be? Now, with both Shelton and Center's exits, another American, Francis Tiafo, has a massive opportunity to have his deepest run yet at Roland Garros. Tiafo had to earn his spot into round three. He won the longest match of his career, defeating Hubert Herkotch 6'7, 76, 6'4, 6'7, 6'4 in four hours and 43 minutes. This was a crazy match as evident by the score line. Perhaps it didn't need to be this dramatic because Francis served for the match at 5-4 in the second set. And then even after he got broken, he had a couple break points and a pretty lengthy 5-all game that he wasn't able to convert. He didn't convert those break points. Still big effort from Bigfo to put that behind him to get the win. And he sealed the victory with an epic cross-court forehead angle. And I just love this reaction. A well-deserved celebration. Francis now has a golden opportunity to reach the semifinals. Not only would he be guaranteed to not face a seed until the Final Four, but he would not have to face a top 50 player. And honestly, this part of the draw is giving Rio 500. No shade, but shade. His next opponent is a qualifier, Jain Ferria, ranked 115 in the world. Ferria had a tough round one quality's win, defeating Rigor Dimitrov like 7-6 in the third set. He then beat Denishapovalov and Jan Lennart Struf in the main draw. The winner of this Tiafa Ferria match faces the victor of Matteo Arnaldi and Colinon. Arnaldi defeated the 2021 finalist Citipas in four sets, and that continues a streak of Stefano's failing to reach a slam third round dating back to Rolling Girls 2024. Tragic. Center was not the only Italian who was upset on day five, as Rome semifinalist and number 14th seed Luciano Darderi bit the dust to Argentina's Francisco Comenzania in five sets. The Argentine now takes on another Italian, Matteo Berettini, who eliminated Francis Arthur Renanesh 4-4-4. Center Slayer Sarandolo faces now 20-year-old Martin Landeluthe from Spain. Lendeluth earned his second straight five-set win, this time coming back from two sets to love down against against Vic Copachiva. I noticed in that whole conversation of men who could come through and win their first slam or have a good run, really nobody mentioned Felix Ojer Aliasin, which is crazy because Felix is now the highest ranked man in the top half after Yannick's departure, and he's now also the only top 10 player remaining in this top half. I mentioned Felix on Twitter, and Loki got dragged in the replies and quotes. The reason for this is that Felix notoriously is an indoor hardcourt merchant. I hate to say it, but it's true. He hasn't had the most success on clay. He's never made the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, but he's still alive here. And I think this is his best chance of doing so, of making the quarterfinals and beyond. He would now take on 31st seed Brandon Nakashima, who defeated Francis Luca Van Asha in five sets. Now, Felix is not the only French-speaking brother in this section. 17-year-old French Final Mois Kwame continued his incredible Cinderella run at Roland Garros with a 6-3-75-36-2676-108 victory. Kwame is the youngest man to reach the third round at any major since Rafa Nodal at Wimbledon in 2003. There are so many things to be impressed by with this with this win from Kwame. First of all, it's his first ever five set match, and it lasted nearly five hours, just three minutes shy of that. Mind you, again, he's just 17 years old. And this is also just Moyse's fourth troll level main draw tournament. He's ranked 318 in the world. So considering how he let a two set to lovely slip and trailed 2-5 in the fifth set, for him to not give up like that, like it's it's awe-inspiring. And he hit some also awe-inspiring backhand winners from the return and on the stretch. Again, that backhand down the line of his is absolute money. I'm also again impressed by, and then he showed just great composure because he was leading six love and that 10-point tiebreaker, but Vallejo clawed back and won seven points in a row. Moïse could have easily crumbled at this point, but he continued to play fearless bolt tennis. He came to the net a few times, and the servant volley actually is what sealed him the win. No doubt the Parisian crowd carried him through, and Moïse acknowledged that after the match. He said, Well, maybe if I didn't play at home, I don't know if I win this match. And the Suzanne Longland crowd was fully behind their guy, and they often cheered Vallejo's missed first serves. And Vallejo made some interesting comments after the match per Clay Magazine. He said the match should have been umpowered by a man instead of Ana Caravajo because, according to him, you need a lot of strength to go against the a rowdy crowd like this. I do not like these comments at all, and I feel like if Vallejo had directed more of those mid-court balls to Kwame's forehand instead of the backhand, he might still be in the tournament and might be singing a different tune. But Moise is undoubtedly a star. It's kind of reminiscent of Coco's rise when she reached the Woman fourth round in 2019 at 15 years old. And I feel like this win over Vallejo would be Kwame's equivalent of golf's win over Pelona Hercog. But standing in the way of Kwame going to round four here is 36th ranked Alejandro Tabilo from Chile. Tabilou for sure not only has the experience edge but the physical edge as he got a walkover from Valentin Vasciro, who gave a walkov from their second round match. But this will be a huge match, obviously, for both guys, but more so for Tabilo. He is a little bit older, um, not 30 yet, but still he's in the prime of his career, I feel like, and he's never yet made a slam second week. So this would be his biggest chance of doing so. A lot of pressure on him. Also, the crowd will be heavily on Kwame's side, so it's gonna be really interesting. I don't know who to pick. I might give Tabilo the edge though, because of his uh again, the experience edge, but more so his him having more in the tank. I think five hours, 17 years old, that's gonna be a tough ass, but we'll see. Now, the most competitive section in the top half is at the bottom. Here you have 10th seed Flavio Caboli who will go up against Leonard Tien. And Tien, he scored a massive five-set win over Diaz Acosta. Tien, he was down and out in this match. He was down a double break, one four in the fourth set, and ended up saving two match points before notching the four-hour win. Kaboli was my pick to win this or come out of the section before the tournament, and I'm gonna stick with him here. I think Tien, while he's been playing good, he's played a lot of tennis lately. Again, this match was four hours, and not only that, he won Geneva the week before Rolling Girls, playing a couple really grueling tough matches. Down here below, you also see the 25th seed and Elder Sarundalo, who got a good win as well. And I think he'll be favored against American Zach Svida, who beat Alex Walton. Walton, he beat Medvedev in the opening round. Shout out to Zvaida. This is his first slam third round. Now, talking about the women's action, it was business as usual. So I'm not gonna spend as much time. This video is already long and I'm low-key sleep deprived and exhausted. But running through the results really, war number one, Arina Sabalenka. She was tested a bit by Francis Elsa Jackmont, but she got through 7-5-6-2. I think she'll need to play better as the tournament progresses. But up next for her is Daria Kazikina, and Arina leads the head-to-head between her and Kazuchina 7-2. The winner of Sabalenka Kazakhina takes on the victor of Osaka Yovic, Naomi Osaka and Eva Yovic. Eva earned a moderately impressive 6-love 6-3 win over Strasbourg champion Alma Navarro, and Navarro beat Yovic in that Strasbourg tournament the week prior to this tournament, Rolling Garrett's. Naomi, meanwhile, earned a strong 7-6-6-4 win over a dangerous Donovec. I am anticipating this Osaka Yovic match being a really tough one. I have Naomi coming through though in three sets. Moving down, number nine seed, Victoria and Boko recover from a set and a break deficit to defeat the tricky Czech Katarina Sinjakova, 5'7, 6'4, 6'2. Up next for Vicky is 19th seed Madison Keys, who's really been moving through the draw kind of quietly, but she's been playing very well. I didn't have her really doing too much here because of a potential thigh issue coming into Roland Garrett's. But if she stays healthy, I can see her make the quarterfinals. Down here below, you also see Deanna Schneider taking on Alexandra Olininkova. And there would definitely be no love loss between these two when they have their match because Olininkova, she pretty much called out Schneider in her second round press conference following her win over Kimberrell. She highlighted how Schneider has shown support for Vladimir Putin, and she reiterated that Schneider takes part in Gozprom events and is involved in Russia's propaganda machinery, in her words. So definitely do not expect a handshake in that match. Meanwhile, Coco Golf, the defending champion, she moved on to round three with a somewhat testy but still solid 6'3, 6'2 victory over Maya Sharif. Sharif is a tricky opponent. She likes to moonball. Also, that grunt can be a little, a little obnoxious, not gonna lie. And Coco didn't play her best, but she didn't need to. It was enough. And she got through. That's all that matters. Because against an opponent like Sharif, it's hard for you to play your best. She doesn't give you much good rhythm. Now, things will probably not get any easier for Coco. As up next for her is Anastasia Patapova, who is playing her best tennis right now. Patapova, she recently made the finals of Lent and the semifinals of Madrid, and she actually won her last two meetings against Coco. Granted, they were both in 2023, but that was at the Miami Open and in Stuttgart. I had Coco winning this match before the tournament, and I'm gonna stick with her taking this one as well. Also below that, you have Anakanskaya who will take on Camilo Osorio, who escaped Yulia Potensova in a tough three and a half hour thrilling match. Last but not least, World number six, Amana Anisimova has a really wide open section. She's the only seed left, and the highest ranked woman, aside from her, is Maria Sakri. The ward number 49 Sakri recovered from a set and love three down to defeat Claire Lou. And I think this is a decent opportunity for the Greek woman to reach her first slam round of 16 since 2022 Australian Open. She will next take on qualifier Maya Halinska. And I honestly favor Maya here because she's been on a tear so far, beating both Chinwin Jang and now Elise Murden 6'4 6 love. Looking now at day six's order of play, we'll have an all-Polish affair between Igor Shiantek and Magdalene Lynette opening play on Chartrier. Then is Mira Andreva against Marie Bolskova. The blockbuster match for me is Novad Djokovic taking on Joao Fonseca, and then it's Alexander Zverev facing off against Quentin Elise. On court Suzanne Longland, there's Andre Rublev against Nuno Borges, followed by Carolina Muhova against Jill Teichman. Alina Svitilina then follows, and then we have another blockbuster match to end on that court between Caspar Roode and Tommy Paul. On court Simone Mattoo, you have Marta Kostjuk opening play, followed by Rafa Hodar against another young player, Alex Mickelson. Another Alex, Alex Di Manor, takes on Yaka Menjik, followed by Belinda Benchic against Peyton Stearns. I'm noticing this side of the draw really isn't giving too too much, especially on the woman's side, honestly. But before I officially wrap up this video, I want to toss it back over to Christian from the past, who will discuss this Serena Williams latest comeback news. Yes, so a big story that's been kind of taking over the tennis community, that's been hovering over the tennis community the past really six months or so is the impending potential comeback of Serena Williams, the 23-time major champion. And John Wertheim joined the Serve podcast with Andy Roddick recently, yesterday, and he said that there are reports that Williams is planning to officially return to action for the grass season, specifically the WTA Queens tournament in London, which is a 500-level tournament. Queens starts June 8th. And Wertheim is hearing that Serena requested a doubles wall card and would partner with World No. 9, Victoria Mboko. Wordtime also mentioned that Williams is interested in playing doubles in Berlin the week after Queens. This is not too surprising because Williams was added to the anti-doping drug testing pool late last year, and she officially regained eligibility in February because even if you request to be entered back into the pool, there has to be a period before you're eligible to play. But Serena's been eligible to play for a few months now. And I thought this Serena comeback would be more so to do one last ride with Venus and play doubles with her one last time before Venus officially calls it her career. But if that was the case, do you think that Serena and Venus would play doubles together in Queens? So if Serena does indeed play doubles with Vicky, it more so indicates that she's trying to come back for singles too. And by the way, I know Serena's probably pissed that all her comeback news and tea is just out there in the open like this. I know she's trying to do another edgy 2022 pop-up and gag and surprise release, but that won't happen this time around, it seems like. But like Andy Rollick and Andrea Pekovic said, it's hard to imagine Serena going through all these anti-doping protocols and having her having to report her whereabouts if there was no singles comeback attached to it. And we have not seen Serena in any pro setting since the 2022 US Open. There, she lost in the third round to Ayla Tomyanovic. And I actually asked Ayla her thoughts on this potential Serena comeback in February when I covered the ATX Open. And Ayla said that she thinks it would be good for the sport and she's here for it. And I agree, I think a Serena comeback would be good for the sport, but I don't know if it would be good for me, honestly speaking, because I don't need my blood pressure rising. Like I'm not really parasocial at all anymore, but I still have a soft spot for Serena, even though I'm a I'm a professional in this game now. She's my player, like that's my mama. I I can't like I love Venus with all my heart. I love her too. She's Auntie to me. But with Venus, it's just different because she frustrates me so much, Venus does, because we kind of always know how her matches turn out. She just does not have the same Moxie that Serena does. Simple as that. Now, this comeback kind of does give a scheme that Ro and GOP1 set up. But I do think that Serena, regardless, has been training for some time. And Alicia Parks has said on multiple accounts that she has been practicing with Serena and that Serena looks good. So we'll see, and whatever happens, I'll let you know. So stay tuned. That is all I have for this Roland Garros update video. Oh my gosh. I I really hope that day six is just somewhat normal, but I feel like we won't get a normal day with this Djokovic Fonseca match as well as Rude Paul, but I'm just praying, tennis gods, take it easy on us, please. Our bodies can only take so much. But yeah, that's all I have for the for this recap video. Let me know your thoughts on everything I discussed, as well as again, make sure you subscribe and click that notification bell so you're notified whenever I do post this next day recap video. Thank y'all so much for watching and for your support. And I will see you all next time here on Christian's Court.