When I got my chance in the tie-break, I’m happy that I used it. It wasn’t like we were just missing shots. Then, obviously, in the tie-break it was a back and forth, with quite good tennis. “I think that was quite important how I came back in the game of 6-5. “I had to stay calm when I didn’t serve out the fourth set at 5-4,” Zverev said. It was after one in the morning when the 13-time Roland Garros champion triumphed, delighting the Philippe Chatrier crowd by landing a backhand winner in the fourth-set tie-break and sealing a 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(4).

He was able to put his feet up in the knowledge he would have two clear days off before his semi-final while Novak Djokovic and Nadal spent more than four hours on court battling for the right to face him. Zverev, who had previously never beaten a top-10 player at a grand slam, finally broke that duck with what turned out to be a relatively straight-forward victory over the world No 6 to reach his second consecutive French Open semi-final. Zverev ‘stays calm’ to conquer one of world’s bestĬarlos Alcaraz’s dream run on clay finally came to an end with a 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(7) defeat by Alexander Zverev in the quarter-finals before Rafael Nadal joined the German in the last four. Sunday 5 June, final, not before 1.45pm BST.

Friday 3 June, Rafael Nadal vs Alexander Zverev, not 2.45pm BST, followed by Marin Cilic vs Casper Ruud.Live stream: Online-only Discovery+ subscription sport package available for £6.99 per month or £59.99 annually on Sky, Amazon Prime Video channels, Roku and Vodafone and across LG Smart TV, Samsung Smart TVs and Amazon Fire TV.TV: Eurosport 1 (Sky channel 410, BT 435, Virgin 521).I‘s predicted final: Rafael Nadal (5) vs Casper Ruud (8) How to watch Rafael Nadal (5) vs Alexander Zverev (3).Should he reach the final, it will mean Cilic has played in the final of all four slams, having won the US Open in 2014 and lost the 2017 Wimbledon final and 2018 Australian Open, both to Federer.

“I feel more tired emotionally out there because Andrey plays a difficult game, he serves big, hits big, and you don’t have many chances.” But Andrey also played an incredible match. “It was an incredibly fair-play performance on the court. “Andrey played incredibly well,” Cilic added, after more than four hours on court. Similarly, like Rune and Cilic, Rublev in the other semi-final had never reached this stage in Paris, or in fact at any grand slam, despite having played five quarter-finals

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