Matchday 6 summary at the French Open: Wu Yixiang ended the clay-court season and Deyo struggled to reach the round of 16
In the early morning of June 3, Beijing time, the sixth matchday of the French Open ended the competition. On this match day, Wu Yixiang lost to the top seed in the doubles match, Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan reversed the promotion after a hard fight, and Deyo, Alcaraz, Tsitsipas, Sabalenka and other famous players also appeared again and successfully passed.
Wu Yixiang's partner Kachin met the top seed Kurhoff/Skapsky in the second round of men's doubles, and the temporary paired Wu Yiyang/Kaqin combination had a big gap with his opponent in terms of strength, and missed the next round after losing two sets in a row. At this point, Wu Yixiang has ended his clay season journey, and he is about to move to the grass season that he is better at.
Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan continued to move forward in the women's doubles arena, the two faced Bonaventur/Udvardi, the match lasted 3 hours and 09 minutes, Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan saved one match point each in the second set and the tiebreaker, and stubbornly reversed and eliminated their opponent, achieving a wave of six consecutive clay wins and advancing to the round of 16 of women's doubles.
World No. 1 Alcaraz made it easy in the third round, winning in straight sets over 26th-seeded Shapovalov. Alcaraz's opponent in the next round was Italian Musetti, who swept through British brother Norrie. Also sweeping was Tsitsipas, who eliminated Schwarzman in straight sets. Deyo struggled in the third round for 3 hours and 36 minutes, narrowly beating 29th seed Davidovic Fokina.
In the rest of the men's singles matches, No. 7 seed Rublev was reversed with a two-set advantage, losing to Italy's Sonego. Kachanov eliminated wildcard Kokinakis in four sets to reach the last 16 of the French Open for the sixth time. No. 13 seed Hurkacz fought hard in five sets and was eliminated by Valillas.
In the women's singles, No. 3 seed Pegula lost only four sets to Mertens, becoming the highest-seeded player to date. No. 3 seed Sabalenka took Rahimova lightly and took a solid step on the road to world number one. No. 9 seed Kasakina swept the cuts, along with Stephens, Svetolina and Mukhova in the next round.