People Land Eight in Roland-Garros Spherical of 16, Most Since 1985

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday Could 31, 2025

Paris – American tennis has smashed a document that stood for 40 years at Roland-Garros. Eight People – 5 ladies, 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 ladies 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 boys’s facet, Tommy Paul, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe made it by means of.

The American males have positioned three within the second week for the primary time since 1995. All three People might be in motion on Sunday in Paris, with Shelton taking over Alcaraz, Paul dealing with Alexei Popyrin and Tiafoe dealing with 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.