French Open 2024 semi-finals order of play and schedule: Carlos Alcaraz v Jannik Sinner, Casper Ruud v Alexander Zverev

Published 06/06/2024 at 18:21 GMT

The French Open semi-finals will see Carlos Alcaraz take on Jannik Sinner and Casper Ruud face Alexander Zverev. Alcaraz overcame Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarter-finals, while Sinner will become world No. 1 after he beat Grigor Dimitrov. Zverev overcame Alex de Minaur, while Ruud, the Norwegian seventh seed, avoided facing Novak Djokovic after the defending champion withdrew with injury.

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A mouth-watering encounter between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner headlines day 13 of the French Open.

The Spanish third seed faces the incoming world No. 1 Sinner, after both made light work of their quarter-final opponents, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Grigor Dimitrov, respectively.

The pair play second on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Friday, following the first semi-final of the men’s wheelchair doubles, which sees the Japanese second seeds Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in action against the unseeded French pair Federic Cattaneo and Guilhem Laget.

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Alcaraz and Sinner will not take to the court until 13:30 UK time, and the second men’s semi-final is between Casper Ruud, the Norwegian seventh seed, and Alexander Zverev, the German fourth seed.

All the semi-final action on Friday at Roland-Garros will be live on Eurosport and discovery+.

Carlos Alcaraz v Jannik Sinner

They are the two form players in the men’s draw right now, but there were doubts over the pair’s fitness coming into the tournament.

Alcaraz was nursing a forearm injury, and has been wearing a protective sleeve throughout Roland-Garros, while Sinner had been struggling with a hip injury that forced him out of the Rome Open.

However, both have proved their doubters wrong, hitting top form on the Parisian clay, and Court Philippe-Chatrier will be in for a thriller on Friday.

The head-to-head record is four wins apiece, although Alcaraz won the previous meeting between the pair in the semi-finals of Indian Wells.

Both men have just dropped one set en route to the last four, with Sinner losing the opener of his second round to Corentin Moutet, the unseeded Frenchman, while Alcaraz was given a third-set scare by the Dutch qualifier and Jack Draper’s conqueror, Jesper de Jong.

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Casper Ruud v Alexander Zverev

Two clay-court titans will conclude play on Chatrier, with the two-time finalist Casper Ruud, who has reached the last Sunday of the previous two French Opens, desperate to go one further and claim his first Grand Slam title.

However, he meets the in-form German Zverev, who has endured a tough run to the semi-finals, beating record 14-time Roland-Garros champion Rafael Nadal in his first round, before coming through two five-set thrillers against Tallon Griekspoor and Holger Rune in his third and fourth rounds.

He beat Alex de Minaur, the Australian 11th seed, in his quarter-final.

Ruud, however, was given a surprise walkover by the top seed Novak Djokovic in the last eight, after the 24-time Grand Slam champion withdrew with a knee injury.

The Norwegian has not played since Monday, when he beat Taylor Fritz in four sets, and he was given a fright in his second-round encounter with Alejandro Davidoch Fokina, who took him to five sets.

The head-to-head record between the two is level at two-wins each, with Ruud beating Zverev at this stage of the French Open last year in their most recent meeting.