2021 ROLAND GARROSDAY 10 MEN’S NOTESTuesday 8 JuneQuarterfinals Bottom Half

No. 2 Daniil Medvedev (RUS) v No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) No. 6 Alexander Zverev (GER) v Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) A look at the quarterfinalists… Player Age Ranking Best Roland Garros performance Best Grand Slam performance No. 1 Novak Djokovic (SRB) 34 1 Won 2016 Won 18 titles No. 2 Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 25 2 QF 2021 RU 2019 US Open, 2021 Australian Open No. 3 Rafael Nadal (ESP) 35 3 Won 2005-08, 2010-14, 2017-20 Won 20 titles No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 22 5 SF 2020 SF 2019, 2021 Australian Open; 2020 Roland Garros No. 6 Alexander Zverev (GER) 24 6 QF 2018-19, 2021 RU 2020 US Open No. 9 Matteo Berrettini (ITA) 25 9 QF 2021 SF 2019 US Open No. 10 Diego Schwartzman (ARG) 28 10 SF 2020 SF 2020 Roland Garros Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) 22 46 QF 2021 QF 2021 Roland Garros On court today… • In today’s first quarterfinal, No. 6 seed Alexander Zverev takes on unseeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. It is the pair’s 2nd meeting at a Grand Slam – and Davidovich Fokina will hope that today’s clash goes better than his previous encounter with Zverev at the majors. He won just 5 games when the pair faced off in a round of 16 clash at the US Open last year. Should Davidovich Fokina overcome the No. 6 seed today, he will become just the 2nd Spanish man (apart from Rafael Nadal) to reach the semifinals at Roland Garros since 2005 – David Ferrer, who reached the last 4 here in 2013, is the only other Spanish man to have reached the semifinals here in that time. Zverev, meanwhile, is bidding to reach his 3rd Grand Slam semifinal and claim sole ownership of 4th place on the list for most Grand Slam semifinal appearances by a German man in the Open Era, ahead of Rainer Schuettler • The night session on Court Philippe-Chatrier sees the first meeting between 2 Top 5 players at Roland Garros this year, with Daniil Medvedev up against Stefanos Tsitsipas. Both players are aiming to reach their 4th Grand Slam semifinal – and both boast a perfect record in Grand Slam quarterfinal matches, so something will have to give this evening. Tsitsipas arrives in better clay court form than Medvedev, but the Russian leads the pair’s headto-head, and has won both of their previous Grand Slam meetings and their only previous clay court encounter, at 2019 Monte Carlo-1000. The pair have also lost just one set each en route to the quarterfinals here, and a close contest seems tonight a certainty.