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2021 ROLAND GARROS
DAY 3 MEN’S NOTES
Tuesday 1 June
1st Round
Featured matches
No. 1 Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Tennys Sandgren (USA)
No. 3 Rafael Nadal (ESP) v Alexei Popyrin (AUS)
No. 7 Andrey Rublev (RUS) v Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)
No. 9 Matteo Berrettini (ITA) v (Q) Taro Daniel (JPN)
No. 10 Diego Schwartzman (ARG) v Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)
No. 14 Gael Monfils (FRA) v Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP)
No. 20 Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) v Andreas Seppi (ITA)
No. 29 Ugo Humbert (FRA) v Ricardas Berankis (LTU)
Lucas Pouille (FRA) v Pablo Cuevas (URU)
(WC) Hugo Gaston (FRA) v Richard Gasquet (FRA)
On court today…
• Rafael Nadal begins his campaign for a record-extending 14th Roland Garros title today, with the Mallorcan taking
on world No. 63 Alexei Popyrin in the 3rd match on Court Philippe-Chatrier. Nadal has not lost a clay court match
to a player ranked as low as Popyrin since 2013, when he fell to No. 73 Horacio Zeballoas in the final at Vina del
Mar. Popyrin won the junior title here in 2017 and was competitive in his only previous match against Nadal, in
the 3rd round at Madrid-1000 last month – but defeating Nadal at Roland Garros is perhaps the greatest challenge
in tennis and Popyrin will need to have the match of his life if he is to become the 3rd man to beat Nadal here.
• In the first men’s match to be scheduled in the night session on Chatrier, world No. 1 Novak Djokovic faces Tennys
Sandgren, with the Serb bidding to maintain his unbeaten record against the American. Djokovic arrives in Paris
in good form, having won his 16th clay court title at Belgrade II last week. Sandgren, by contrast, has struggled
for form this year, with just 3 Tour-level match-wins under his belt – and he has won just one set in his 3 previous
meetings with Djokovic. He will need to be at the top of his game if he is to defeat Djokovic and record just his
2nd match-win at Roland Garros.
• French No. 1 Gael Monfils has endured a difficult season so far this year and has been handed a tough 1st round
draw here – he plays Albert Ramos-Vinolas, the world No. 38, in the 2nd match on Court Suzanne-Lenglen today.
Monfils has managed just one Tour-level match-win in 2021, while Ramos-Vinolas has amassed 18 victories this
year, with 17 of them coming on clay. The Spaniard sits alongside Federico Delbonis and Stefanos Tsitsipas at
the top of the list for most Tour-level clay court match-wins this season – and he will hope to record a victory today
which would see him end a 6-match losing streak against Top 20 players.
• Hugo Gaston won fans across the tennis world with his performances here in 2020, recording a 5-set victory over
Stan Wawrinka before going down in 5 sets to Dominic Thiem in the round of 16. The draw has pitted the French
wild card against another home favourite here, with Richard Gasquet standing between Gaston and a place in
the next round. Gaston has made steady progress since his breakthrough here in October, and currently sits at a
career-high ranking of No. 141. Gasquet, meanwhile, has dropped outside the world’s Top 50 but has
rediscovered some form of late, having reached back-to-back quarterfinals at Lyon and Parma in the last 2 weeks
– and the 34-year-old will hope to continue the momentum today.
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2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesNO. 1 NOVAK DJOKOVIC (SRB) v TENNYS SANDGREN (USA)
Head-to-head: Djokovic leads 3-0
2018 Wimbledon Grass (O) R128 Djokovic 63 61 62
2018 US Open Hard (O) R64 Djokovic 61 63 67(2) 62
2020 Cincinnati-1000 Hard (O) R16 Djokovic 62 64
A 4th meeting for Djokovic and Sandgren, their 3rd at the Grand Slams, but their first on clay. Djokovic has
dropped just one set in their 3 previous meetings.
Djokovic has lost Grand Slam matches to players ranked as low as No. 66 Sandgren on 4 occasions – to No. 68
Paul Goldstein in the 1st round at the 2006 Australian Open, to No. 75 Marin Cilic in the 2nd round at 2008
Wimbledon, to No. 117 Denis Istomin in the 2nd round at the 2017 Australian Open and to No. 72 Marco
Cecchinato in the quarterfinals here in 2018.
DJOKOVIC v SANDGREN
34 Age 29
1 ATP Ranking (31 May) 66
83 Titles 1
303-45 Career Grand Slam Record 15-14
74-15 Roland Garros Record 1-4
954-195 Career Record 42-63
237-59 Career Record - Clay 9-20
20-3 2021 Record 3-7
11-3 2021 Record - Clay 1-3
33-10 Career Five-Set Record 5-1
4 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 1
268-145 Career Tiebreak Record 28-40
6-4 2021 Tiebreak Record 1-2
• 2016 champion DJOKOVIC is bidding to maintain his record of always reaching the 2nd round here. This is his
17th consecutive appearance at Roland Garros and his 64th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Djokovic reached the final here for the 5th time – and for the first time since he won the title here
in 2016 – but fell to Rafael Nadal 60 62 75. It was the first time that Djokovic had lost a set 60 in a Grand Slam
final.
• Djokovic has lost his opening match at a major on just 2 occasions – at the Australian Open in 2005 (l. Marat
Safin) and 2006 (l. Paul Goldstein).
• Djokovic is bidding to win his 19th Grand Slam title here and close the gap on Roger Federer and Nadal (20
Grand Slam titles each) at the top of the all-time list for most Grand Slam men’s singles titles. He claimed sole
ownership of 3rd place on the list, ahead of Pete Sampras, by winning his 15th major title at the 2019 Australian
Open.
• Djokovic is bidding to become the first man in the Open Era – and only the 3rd man in history – to win each
of the 4 Grand Slams twice. Roy Emerson and Laver are the only men to have won each Grand Slam on 2 or
more occasions. (NB While Laver completed the feat in 1969, some of the titles were won before the start of the
Open Era)
• Djokovic is bidding to become the 3rd man in history to win the Australian Open and Roland Garros titles in
the same year on multiple occasions after Emerson and Laver. He won the titles at both the Australian Open
and Roland Garros in 2016, when he became the first man to complete the Melbourne-Paris double since Jim
Courier in 1992.
• Aged 34 years 22 days, Djokovic is bidding to win his 7th Grand Slam title since turning 30 and claim sole
ownership of the Open Era record for most Grand Slam men’s singles titles won after the age of 30, ahead of
Nadal. Since celebrating his 30th birthday on 22 May 2017, Djokovic has won the titles at Wimbledon in 2018-19,
at the 2018 US Open, and at the Australian Open in 2019-21. (NB ages calculated at the end of the tournament)
• Djokovic became the 8th man in history to win all 4 Grand Slam events by winning his first Roland Garros title
in 2016, defeating Andy Murray in the final. He is one of only 3 men in history, alongside Don Budge and Laver,
to have held all 4 Grand Slam titles simultaneously.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• Earlier this year, Djokovic won his 9th Australian Open title, and 18th Grand Slam title overall, defeating Daniil
Medvedev in the final. He became the 2nd player to win 9 singles titles at a Grand Slam tournament after Nadal
(13 Roland Garros titles) and Margaret Court (9 Australian Championships/Open titles).
• Djokovic is bidding to record his 304th Grand Slam match-win. By defeating Milos Raonic in the round of 16 at
the Australian Open this year, he became the 2nd player to record 300 men’s singles match-wins at the Grand
Slams, after Federer.
• Djokovic’s won the title at Belgrade II last week, defeating Alex Molcan in the final. Elsewhere on clay this
season, he reached the final at Rome-1000 (l. Nadal), the semifinals at Belgrade I (l. Aslan Karatsev) and the 3rd
round at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Daniel Evans).
• Of Djokovic’s 83 Tour-level singles titles, 16 have come on clay – compared with 61 on hard court and 6 on
grass.
• Djokovic has won 6 of his last 7 five-set matches. His only defeat in a 5-set match in that time came against
Dominic Thiem in the semifinals here in 2019. He has a 7-3 win-loss record in 5-set matches at Roland Garros
and a 33-10 win-loss record in 5-set matches at Tour-level overall.
• Djokovic’s victory against Taylor Fritz in the 3rd round at the Australian Open this year was his 30th victory in a
5-set match at the Grand Slams, equalling Federer’s record for most 5-set matches won at the Grand Slams.
Most 5-set matches won at the Grand Slams (all-time)
Player 5-set match win-loss
Novak Djokovic 30-9
Roger Federer 30-17
Pete Sampras 29-9
Marin Cilic 27-12
Lleyton Hewitt 26-19
• Djokovic has held the world No. 1 ranking for a total of 323 weeks (including this week) and holds the record for
most weeks ranked No. 1, having surpassed Federer’s mark of 310 weeks as world No. 1 on 8 March 2021.
• Djokovic has played Davis Cup for Serbia since 2004, has a 37-11 win-loss record in the competition and led
Serbia to their only title in the competition to date in 2010. He won all 3 singles matches he contested as Serbia
reached the quarterfinals last year (l. Russia). Serbia will compete alongside Germany and Austria in Group F the
2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Djokovic is coached by Marian Vajda and Goran Ivanisevic.
• SANDGREN is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 2nd time. This is his 5th Roland Garros appearance
and his 15th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Sandgren reached the 2nd round. He defeated Hubert Hurkacz in 5 sets for his first Roland
Garros match-win before falling to Daniel Elahi Galan. He lost in the 1st round on his 3 other appearances here
– as a wild card in 2017 (l. Mikhail Kukushkin), as a direct acceptance in 2018 (l. Hurkacz) and as a qualifier in
2019 (l. Radu Albot).
• Sandgren’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the quarterfinals at the Australian Open on 2 occasions
– in 2018, ranked No. 97, when he fell to Hyeon Chung, and 2020, ranked No. 100, when he fell to Roger Federer
in 5 sets.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Sandgren fell to Alex de Minaur in straight sets in the 1st round at the Australian
Open. He has lost in the 1st round on 8 of his previous 14 Grand Slam appearances.
• Sandgren is bidding to record his 4th Tour-level match-win of 2021. His only match-wins at Tour-level this year
have come in 2nd round finishes at the Great Ocean Road Open in Melbourne (d. John-Patrick Smith, l. Salvatore
Caruso), at Miami-1000 (d. Pedro Martinez, l. Andrey Rublev) and on clay at Geneva (d. Caruso, l. Casper Ruud).
• Also on clay this year, Sandgren fell in the 1st round at Munich (l. Pablo Cuevas) and Belgrade II (l. Jeremy
Chardy). He failed to qualify at Barcelona, Madrid-1000 and Rome-1000.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• Sandgren is bidding to defeat a world No. 1 for the first time on his 2nd attempt. He lost his only previous match
against a world No. 1, falling to Djokovic in the 3rd round at Cincinnati-1000 last year. The highest-ranked player
he has defeated is No. 5 Dominic Thiem in the round of 16 at the 2018 Australian Open.
• Sandgren has won all 5 of the 6 five-set matches he has contested, including his victory against Hurkacz in the
1st round here last year. His only defeat in a 5-set match came against Federer in the quarterfinals at the 2020
Australian Open.
• Sandgren reached a career-high ranking of No. 41 in January 2019 after winning his only Tour-level title to date
at Auckland (d. Cameron Norrie). He plays here at No. 66.
• Sandgren played college tennis. He helped the University to Tennessee to the 2010 NCAA team final and was
also an NCAA singles semifinalist in 2011, losing to teammate Rhyne Williams.
• Sandgren is currently without a permanent coach.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesNO. 3 RAFAEL NADAL (ESP) v ALEXEI POPYRIN (AUS)
Head-to-head: Nadal leads 1-0
2021 Madrid-1000 Clay (O) R16 Nadal 63 63
A 2nd meeting for Nadal and Popyrin, with Nadal having won in straight sets in the 3rd round at Madrid-1000 last
month.
Nadal has lost a clay court match to a player ranked as low as No. 63 Popyrin on 4 occasions – to No. 70 Oliver
Rochus in the 2nd round at 2002 Mallorca, to No. 76 Nicolas Lapentti in the quarterfinals at 2003 Bastad, to
No. 113 Olivier Mutis in the 2nd round at 2004 Palermo and No. 73 Horacio Zeballos in the final at 2013 Vina del
Mar.
Nadal has lost Grand Slam matches to players ranked as low as Popyrin on 5 occasions – at Wimbledon in 2005
and in 2012-15. He fell to No. 69 Gilles Muller in 2005, No. 100 Lukas Rosol in 2012, No. 135 Steve Darcis in
2013, No. 144 Nick Kyrgios in 2014 and No. 102 Dustin Brown in 2015.
NADAL v POPYRIN
34* Age 21
3 ATP Ranking (31 May) 63
88 Titles 1
286-40 Career Grand Slam Record 9-8
100-2 Roland Garros Record 1-2
1022-207 Career Record 30-26
459-42 Career Record - Clay 5-8
18-3 2021 Record 15-8
14-2 2021 Record - Clay 4-4
22-13 Career Five-Set Record 1-2
3 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 0
248-162 Career Tiebreak Record 35-19
1-2 2021 Tiebreak Record 18-5
*Turns 35 on 3 June
• Four-time defending champion NADAL is bidding to win his 21st Grand Slam title and claim sole ownership of
the all-time record for most Grand Slam men’s singles titles, ahead of Roger Federer.
• Nadal is also bidding to close the gap on Steffi Graf in 3rd place on the list for most Grand Slam singles titles.
Margaret Court (24 major titles), Serena Williams (23) and Graf (22) are the only players to have won more Grand
Slam singles titles than Nadal or Federer.
• Last year here, Nadal won his 13th Roland Garros title, defeating Novak Djokovic 60 62 75 in the final. His
victory over Djokovic was his 100th match-win at Roland Garros, making him the first player in history to win 100
singles matches here.
• By winning his 13th title here last year, Nadal extended his record for most singles titles at the same Grand
Slam tournament. By winning the title here in 2019, he moved ahead of Court, who won 11 women’s singles
titles at the Australian Open.
• Nadal is also bidding to further extend his record for the most men’s singles Grand Slam titles at any one
event. He won the title here in 2005-08 and 2010-14, making him the only man in history to have won 5 titles in
a row at Roland Garros, before winning 4 straight titles here in 2017-20.
• Nadal is bidding to win the title here for a 5th consecutive year and become the first player in history to record
2 streaks of 5 men’s singles titles at the same Grand Slam event. Federer is the only man to have recorded
streaks of 5 consecutive titles at the same Grand Slam event on 2 different occasions, having won 5 straight
Wimbledon titles in 2003-07 and 5 straight US Open titles in 2004-08.
• Nadal is also bidding to become the first player in the Open Era to win 14 singles titles at any Tour-level
event. The only other player to have won 12 or more singles titles at one event is Martina Navratilova, who won
12 singles titles at Chicago between 1978 and 1992.
• Aged 35 years 10 days, Nadal is bidding to win his 7th Grand Slam title since turning 30 and claim sole
ownership of the Open Era record for most Grand Slam men’s singles titles won after the age of 30, ahead of
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesDjokovic. Since celebrating his 30th birthday on 3 June 2016, Nadal has won the titles at Roland Garros in
2017-20, and at the US Open in 2017 and 2019. (NB ages calculated at the end of the tournament)
• Nadal has a 125-2 win-loss record in best-of-five-set matches on clay. His only defeats came at Roland Garros
– in the round of 16 in 2009 (l. Robin Soderling) and the quarterfinals in 2015 (l. Djokovic).
• Nadal is the leading performer in Roland Garros history. He enters the tournament with a 100-2 win-loss record
at Roland Garros, ahead of Djokovic (74-15), Federer (70-17) and Guillermo Vilas (58-17). This is Nadal’s 17th
consecutive Roland Garros and his 62nd Grand Slam appearance overall.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Nadal reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, where he fell to Stefanos
Tsitsipas in 5 sets, despite holding a 2-0 lead. It was the 3rd time in his career that he had lost a match after being
2-0 up.
• Nadal’s best results in 2021 are winning the titles at Barcelona (d. Tsitsipas) and Rome-1000 (d. Djokovic). He
also reached the quarterfinals at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Andrey Rublev) and Madrid-1000 (l. Alexander Zverev).
• Nadal is bidding to win his 63rd career clay court title at Roland Garros. By winning his 50th clay court title at
2017 Monte Carlo-1000, he set an Open Era record for the most career clay court titles ahead of Vilas (49). He
has won 88 Tour-level titles in total.
• Nadal has won both 5-set matches he has contested at Roland Garros – against John Isner in the 1st round in
2011 and against Djokovic in the semifinals in 2013. He has a 22-13 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Nadal is seeded No. 3 at Roland Garros for the 2nd time in his career. He won the title as No. 3 seed here in
2013. It is the 5th time in his career he has been seeded No. 3 at a Grand Slam.
• Nadal dropped to No. 3 in the rankings in March this year – the first time he had been ranked outside the Top
2 since May 2017. He rose to No. 2 for 2 weeks in April-May before dropping to No. 3 again. He has spent a total
of 209 weeks as world No. 1, having first reached the top ranking in August 2008.
• Nadal is a 4-time Davis Cup champion. He made his debut in the competition in 2004 and was part of the
Spanish teams which won the title in 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2019 – among active players, he holds the record for
most Davis Cup titles, alongside Feliciano Lopez. At last year’s Davis Cup Finals in Madrid, he won all 8 matches
he contested as Spain won their 6th title. Spain will compete alongside the Russian Tennis Federation team and
Ecuador in Group A at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Nadal is coached by Carlos Moya, who won the title here in 1998, and Francisco Roig.
• POPYRIN is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 2nd time. This is his 3rd Roland Garros appearance and
his 9th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Popyrin fell in the 1st round to Lloyd Harris in straight sets. On his only other appearance in the
main draw here, as a wild card in 2019, he reached the 2nd round (d. Ugo Humbert, l. Laslo Djere).
• Popyrin’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the 3rd round on 3 occasions – at the Australian Open as a wild
card in 2019 (l. Lucas Pouille) and as a direct acceptance last year (l. Daniil Medvedev), and at the 2019 US Open
(l. Matteo Berrettini).
• In Grand Slam play this year, Popyrin reached the 2nd round as a wild card at the Australian Open defeating
David Goffin in 5 sets before falling to Harris, also in 5 sets. He has a 1-2 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall,
having also fallen to Pouille in 5 sets in the 3rd round at the 2019 Australian Open.
• Popyrin’s best result in 2021 is winning his first Tour-level title at Singapore defeating Alexander Bublik in the
final at Singapore. He also reached the 3rd round on hard courts at both the Murray River Open in Melbourne
(l. Grigor Dimitrov) and Miami-1000 (l. Medvedev), and on clay as a qualifier at Madrid-1000 (l. Nadal).
• Also on clay this year, Popyrin reached the 2nd round as a qualifier at Monte Carlo-1000 (d. Pablo Andujar,
l. Lucas Pouille) and as a direct acceptance at Belgrade (d. Francisco Cerundolo, l. Gianluca Mager). He fell in
the 1st round at Munich (l. John Millman) and failed to qualify at Rome-1000.
• Popyrin is bidding to defeat a Top 5 player for the first time on his 7th attempt. The highest-ranked player he has
defeated is No. 8 Dominic Thiem, who retired due to illness while trailing Popyrin in the 2nd round at the 2019
Australian Open.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• Popyrin lost the only 5-set match he has contested, falling to Pouille in 5 sets in the 3rd round at the 2019
Australian Open.
• Popyrin reached a career-high ranking of No. 61 last month. He plays here 2 places lower at No. 63.
• Popyrin was a successful junior. He won the boys’ singles title here in 2017 (d. Nicola Kuhn) and reached a
career-high junior ranking of No. 2.
• Popyrin made his Davis Cup debut in 2019, defeating Nerman Fatic during Australia’s victory over Bosnia and
Herzegovina in the 2019 Qualifiers. It is the only match he has contested in the competition to date. Australia will
compete alongside Croatia and Hungary in Group D at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Popyrin is coached by Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesNO. 7 ANDREY RUBLEV (RUS) v JAN-LENNARD STRUFF (GER)
Head-to-head: Rublev leads 2-1
2018 St Petersburg Hard (I) R32 Struff 64 76(6)
2021 ATP Cup Hard (O) SF Rublev 36 61 62
2021 Rome-1000 Clay (O) R32 Rublev 67(7) 61 64
Rublev and Struff meet for the 4th time – and for the 3rd time this season, the 2nd time on clay and the first time
at a Grand Slam. Struff won their first meeting in 2018, but Rublev has come from a set down to win both matches
they have contested this season.
RUBLEV v STRUFF
23 Age 31
7 ATP Ranking (31 May) 42
9 Titles 0
27-14 Career Grand Slam Record 18-29
4-2 Roland Garros Record 6-8
161-97 Career Record 151-174
34-22 Career Record - Clay 51-58
29-8 2021 Record 13-13
9-4 2021 Record - Clay 8-6
7-4 Career Five-Set Record 8-5
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 3
50-59 Career Tiebreak Record 74-101
8-7 2019 Tiebreak Record 6-6
• RUBLEV is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 2nd time. This is his 3rd appearance at Roland Garros
and his 15th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Rublev equalled his best Grand Slam performance by reaching the quarterfinals, where he fell
to Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets. He has reached the quarterfinals at the Grand Slams on 3 other occasions
– at the US Open in 2017 (l. Rafael Nadal) and 2020 (l. Daniil Medvedev), and at the Australian Open this year
(l. Medvedev).
• Rublev has lost in the 1st round here on one occasion – on his debut here as a lucky loser in 2017, when
he fell to Diego Schwartzman in 5 sets in the 1st round. He withdrew from Roland Garros with a back injury in
2018 and with a wrist injury in 2019.
• At 23 years 236 days, Rublev is bidding to become the youngest Grand Slam men’s singles champion since
Juan Martin del Potro won the title at the 2009 US Open aged 20 years 355 days. He is also bidding to become
the youngest Roland Garros men’s singles champion since Nadal won the title here in 2008 aged 22 years 5 days.
(NB ages calculated at the end of the tournament)
• On clay in 2021, Rublev reached his first Masters-1000 final at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Tsitsipas). He also reached
the quarterfinals at Barcelona (l. Jannik Sinner) and Rome-1000 (l. Lorenzo Sonego).
• Rublev’s best result in 2021 is winning the title at Rotterdam (d. Marton Fucsovics). He also reached the
semifinals at Doha (l. Roberto Bautista Agut), Dubai (l. Aslan Karatsev) and Miami-1000 (l. Hubert Hurkacz).
• Rublev has won 8 Tour-level singles titles. He won 5 titles in 2020, more than any other player on Tour – at
Doha (d. Corentin Moutet), Adelaide (d. Lloyd Harris), Hamburg (d. Tsitsipas), St Petersburg (d. Borna Coric) and
Vienna (d. Sonego).
• Rublev broke the Top 10 for the first time in October last year and finished the season ranked at No. 8. He
reached a career-high ranking of No. 7 in April this year and plays here at the same ranking.
• Rublev is a former junior world No.1 having topped the boys’ rankings for the first time in June 2014 after winning
the boys’ singles title at 2014 Roland Garros (d. Jaume Munar). He also won two medals at the Youth Olympic
Tennis Event in Nanjing later that year, winning boys’ singles bronze and boys’ doubles silver with Karen
Khachanov. He was named 2014 ITF Junior World Champion.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• Rublev has played Davis Cup since 2014 and has a 14-9 win-loss record in the competition. He won all 4 singles
matches he contested at the 2019 Davis Cup Finals in Madrid. The Russian Tennis Federation team will compete
alongside Spain and Ecuador in Group A at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Rublev is coached by Fernando Vicente.
• STRUFF is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 5th time. This is his 9th straight Roland Garros appearance
and his 30th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Struff reached the 2nd round (d. Frances Tiafoe, l. Daniel Altmaier).
• Struff’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the round of 16 here in 2019, where he defeated Denis
Shapovalov, Radu Albot and Borna Coric before falling to Novak Djokovic.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Struff fell to Christopher O’Connell in straight sets in the 1st round at the Australian
Open.
• Struff’s best result in 2021 is reaching his first Tour-level singles final at Munich (l. Nikoloz Basilashvili). He also
reached the quarterfinals on hard courts at Antalya (l. Jeremy Chardy) and on clay at both Sardinia (l. Basilashvili)
and Parma (l. Tommy Paul).
• Also on clay this year, Struff reached the 2nd round at Rome-1000 (d. Aljaz Bedene, l. Andrey Rublev) but fell
in the 1st round at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Grigor Dimitrov) and Madrid-1000 (Alexei Popyrin).
• Struff is bidding to defeat a Top 10 player at a Grand Slam the first time. The highest-ranked player he has
defeated at the Grand Slams is No. 15 Coric in the 3rd round here in 2019.
• Struff has won just one of his last 8 Tour-level matches against Top 10 opposition. His only victory against a
Top 10 opponent in that time came against No. 10 David Goffin in the quarterfinals at Cincinnati-1000 last year.
He has an 8-25 win-loss record against Top 10 opposition at Tour-level overall.
• Struff has won the last 6 five-set matches he has contested, having not lost a 5-set match since falling
to Alexandr Dolgopolov in the 1st round at the 2017 US Open. He has won both 5-set matches he has contested
at Roland Garros, defeating Coric in 5 sets in the 3rd round in 2019 and Tiafoe in 5 sets in the 1st round last year.
He has an 8-5 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Struff reached a career-high ranking of No. 29 in August last year. He plays here at No. 42.
• Struff has won 3 Tour-level doubles titles – on hard courts at 2018 Tokyo and at 2019 Auckland alongside Ben
McLachlan, defeating Raven Klaasen/Michael Venus on both occasions, and at 2019 Metz alongside Robert
Lindstedt (d. Nicolas Mahut/Edouard Roger-Vasselin).
• Struff has played Davis Cup for Germany since 2015 and has an 11-5 overall win-loss record in the competition.
Germany will compete in alongside Serbia and Austria in Group F at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Struff is coached by Carsten Arriens.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesNO. 9 MATTEO BERRETTINI (ITA) v (Q) TARO DANIEL (JPN)
Head-to-head: tied 1-1
2018 Istanbul Clay (O) R32 Daniel 75 63
2021 Belgrade I Clay (O) SF Berrettini 61 67(5) 60
A 3rd meeting for Berrettini and Daniel, but their first at a Grand Slam. Both of their previous meetings came on
clay, with Berrettini winning in 3 sets when the pair met in the semifinals at Belgrade I in April this year.
Berrettini has lost a Grand Slam match to a player ranked as low as No. 113 Daniel on one previous occasion –
when he fell to No. 186 Daniel Altmaier in the 3rd round here last year.
Berrettini has won 2 of his 3 previous matches against qualifiers at the Grand Slams, with his only defeat to a
qualifier at a major coming against Altmaier here last year. He has a 13-4 win-loss record against qualifiers at
Tour-level overall.
BERRETTINI v DANIEL
25 Age 28
9 ATP Ranking (31 May) 113
4 Titles 1
21-11 Career Grand Slam Record 4-15
5-3 Roland Garros Record 2-4
89-56 Career Record 53-85
38-17 Career Record - Clay 30-38
18-5 2021 Record 4-6
10-3 2021 Record - Clay 3-3
3-1 Career Five-Set Record 2-4
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 1
44-37 Career Tiebreak Record 32-27
7-3 2021 Tiebreak Record 1-4
• BERRETTINI is bidding to maintain his record of always reaching the 2nd round here. This is his 4th Roland
Garros appearance and his 13th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Berrettini equalled his best Roland Garros performance by reaching the 3rd round. As No. 7
seed, he defeated Vasek Pospisil and Lloyd Harris before falling to qualifier Daniel Altmaier. He also reached the
3rd round on his debut here in 2018 (l. Dominic Thiem).
• Berrettini’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the semifinals at the 2019 US Open (l. Rafael Nadal),
where he became the 4th Italian man in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam semifinal – after Adriano Panatta
(1973, 1975, 1976 Roland Garros), Corrado Barazzutti (1977 US Open, 1978 Roland Garros) and Marco
Cecchinato (2018 Roland Garros).
• In Grand Slam play this year, Berrettini reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open. He defeated Kevin
Anderson, Tomas Machac and Karen Khachanov before giving a walkover to Stefanos Tsitsipas due to an
abdominal injury.
• Berrettini’s best result in 2021 is winning the title at Belgrade I in April, defeating Aslan Karatsev in the final. He
also reached his first Masters-1000 final, finishing runner-up at Madrid-1000 (l. Alexander Zverev), but fell in the
3rd round at Rome-1000 (l. Tsitsipas) and lost his opening match at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Alejandro Davidovich
Fokina).
• Also in 2021, Berrettini reached the quarterfinals at Antalya (l. Alexander Bublik) and won 3 of the 4 singles
matches he contested as Italy reached the final at the ATP Cup, falling to Russia’s Daniil Medvedev in the final.
• Berrettini’s has won the 3 of the 4 five-set matches he has contested, with his only defeat in a 5-set match coming
against Tennys Sandgren in the 2nd round at the 2020 Australian Open. He has never contested a 5-set match
at Roland Garros.
• Berrettini has won 4 Tour-level singles titles, 3 of which have come on clay. In addition to his victory at
Belgrade I this year, he also won the titles on clay at 2018 Gstaad (d. Roberto Bautista Agut) and 2019 Budapest
(d. Filip Krajinovic), and on grass at 2019 Stuttgart (d. Felix Auger-Aliassime).
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• Berrettini reached a career-high ranking of No. 8 in November 2019, becoming the highest-ranked Italian man
since No. 8 Barazzutti in 1978. He plays here one place lower at No. 9.
• Berrettini made his Davis Cup debut in February 2019 during Italy’s victory against India in the Qualifiers. He also
competed in the 2019 Davis Cup Finals in Madrid, losing both singles matches he contested, falling to Denis
Shapovalov and Taylor Fritz. He has a 2-3 overall win-loss record in the competition. Italy will compete alongside
USA and Colombia in Group E at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Berrettini is coached by Vincenzo Santopadre, Marco Gulisano and Umberto Rianna.
• Qualifier DANIEL is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 3rd time. This is his 5th Roland Garros appearance
and his 16th Grand Slam overall.
• As No. 5 seed, Daniel defeated Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 63 64, Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 61 64 and Quentin Halys
(FRA) 76(7) 61 in the 3 rounds of qualifying here. It is the 4th time he has successfully qualified at the Grand
Slams on his 16th attempt. It is the 3rd time he has qualified for the main draw at Roland Garros, having also
come through qualifying here in 2015 and 2017.
• Last year here, Daniel reached the 2nd round of qualifying (d. Mathis Bourgue, l. Andrey Kuznetsov). On his last
main draw appearance here, in 2019, he fell to Gael Monfils in straight sets in the 1st round.
• Daniel’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the 2nd round on 4 occasions, including twice at Roland
Garros – in 2016 (d. Martin Klizan, l. Stan Wawrinka) and as a qualifier in 2017 (d. Jerzy Janowicz, l. Pablo
Carreno Busta). He also reached the 2nd round at the 2017 US Open (d. Tommy Paul, l. Rafael Nadal) and the
2019 Australian Open (d. Thanasi Kokkinakis, l. Denis Shapovalov).
• In Grand Slam play this year, Daniel fell to Maxime Cressy in straight sets in the 1st round as a lucky loser at
the Australian Open. He has lost in the 1st round on 11 of his previous 15 Grand Slam main draw appearances.
• Daniel’s best result in 2021 is reaching the semifinals as a lucky loser on clay at Belgrade I, where he defeated
Joao Sousa, John Millman and Federico Delbonis before falling to Berrettini. He recorded his only other Tour-
level match-win this season in a 2nd round finish on hard courts at Singapore (d. Ramkumar Ramanathan,
l. Marin Cilic). He lost in the 1st round at the only other Tour-level clay court event he contested – at Munich
(l. Yannick Hanfmann).
• At Challenger-level this year, Daniel’s best results are reaching the semifinals on hard courts at Nur-Sultan
(KAZ) (l. Sebastian Ofner) and on clay at Oeiras (POR) (l. Carlos Alcaraz). He also reached the quarterfinals at 3
clay court Challenger events – at Marbella (ESP) (l. Jaume Munar), Belgrade (SRB) (l. Damir Dzumhur) and
Heilbronn (GER) (l. Dennis Novak).
• Daniel is bidding to defeat a Top 10 player for the first time on his 6th attempt. The highest-ranked player he
has defeated is No. 13 Novak Djokovic in the 2nd round at 2018 Indian Wells-1000. The highest-ranked player
he has defeated at a Grand Slam is No. 45 Klizan, who retired due to a neck injury in the 5th set of their 1st round
match here in 2016.
• Clay is Daniel’s best surface. Of his 53 Tour-level match-wins, 30 have come on clay, compared to 23 on hard
courts. He has never recorded a Tour-level match-win on grass.
• Daniel reached a career-high ranking of No. 64 in August 2018. He plays here at No. 113.
• Daniel has played Davis Cup for Japan since 2014 and has a 6-6 overall win-loss record in the competition.
Japan defeated Pakistan in a World Group I tie in March and will next compete in the 2022 Qualifiers.
• Daniel is coached by Sven Groeneveld.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesNO. 10 DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN (ARG) v YEN-HSUN LU (TPE)
Head-to-head: Lu leads 1-0
2016 Winston-Salem Hard (O) R16 Lu 64 60
A 2nd meeting for Schwartzman and Lu, and their first on clay or at a Grand Slam. At the time of their previous
meeting, at Winston-Salem in August 2016, Schwartzman, at No. 68, was ranked just 4 places higher than Lu at
No. 72.
Schwartzman has never lost a Tour-level match to a player ranked as low as No. 680 Lu. The lowest-ranked
player to have defeated Schwartzman at Tour-level is No. 277 Ernesto Escobedo in the 1st round at 2016
Nottingham. The lowest-ranked player to have defeated Schwartzman at a Grand Slam is No. 142 Juan Martin
del Potro in the 1st round at the 2016 US Open.
SCHWARTZMAN v LU
28 Age 37
10 ATP Ranking (31 May) 680
4 Titles 0
39-26 Career Grand Slam Record 23-48
14-7 Roland Garros Record 2-9
180-153 Career Record 162-227
90-68 Career Record - Clay 6-19
12-10 2019 Record 1-3
7-6 2019 Record - Clay 0-0
6-5 Career Five-Set Record 9-8
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 0
48-57 Career Tiebreak Record 82-75
1-1 2019 Tiebreak Record 0-1
• SCHWARTZMAN is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 7th time. This is his 8th Roland Garros and his
27th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Schwartzman recorded his best Grand Slam performance by reaching the semifinals, falling to
eventual champion Rafael Nadal in straight sets.
• Schwartzman has lost in the 1st round at a Grand Slam on 9 occasions – including once at Roland Garros,
when he fell to Guido Pella in 2016.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Schwartzman reached the 3rd round at the Australian Open, defeating Elias Ymer
and Alexandre Muller before falling to qualifier Aslan Karatsev in straight sets.
• Schwartzman’s best result in 2021 is winning the title on clay at Buenos Aires (d. Francisco Cerundolo), where
he became the first Argentinian champion at the event since David Nalbandian in 2008. It was also his first Tour-
level title on home soil.
• Schwartzman’s other highlights this year are reaching the quarterfinals on clay at both Cordoba (l. Albert
Ramos-Vinolas) and Barcelona (l. Pablo Carreno Busta), and the round of 16 on hard courts at Miami-1000
(l. Sebastian Korda).
• Schwartzman is bidding to end a 4-match Tour-level losing streak. He has not recorded match-wins at Tour-
level since defeating Frances Tiafoe and Corentin Moutet to reach the quarterfinals at Barcelona. He has lost his
opening match at all 3 events he has contested since then – at Madrid-1000 (l. Karatsev), Rome-1000 (l. Felix
Auger-Aliassime) and Lyon (l. Richard Gasquet). He also lost his opening match at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Casper
Ruud) prior to reaching the last 8 at Barcelona.
• Schwartzman has won one of the last 3 five-set matches he has contested, with his only victory in a 5-set match
in that time coming against Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals here last year. He has a 4-2 win-loss record in
5-set matches at Roland Garros and a 6-5 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Schwartzman broke the Top 10 for the first time after reaching the semifinals here in October last year, rising
to a career-high ranking of No. 8. He plays here 2 places lower at No. 10.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• Schwartzman has won 4 Tour-level singles titles, 3 of which have come on clay. In addition to his victory at
Buenos Aires this year, he also won the titles on clay at 2016 Istanbul (d. Grigor Dimitrov) and 2018 Rio de Janeiro
in 2018 (d. Fernando Verdasco), and on hard courts at 2019 Los Cabos (d. Taylor Fritz).
• Schwartzman has played Davis Cup for Argentina since 2015 and has a 5-6 overall win-loss record in the
competition. He won one of the 3 matches he contested as Argentina reached the quarterfinals at the 2019 Davis
Cup Finals in Madrid. Argentina will next play at home to Belarus in a World Group I tie in September 2021.
• Schwartzman is coached by former world No. 15 Juan Ignacio Chela and Alejandro Fabbri.
• LU is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 3rd time. This is his 11th Roland Garros appearance and his
50th Grand Slam overall.
• Lu is making his first appearance here since 2017, when he fell in the 1st round to Sergiy Stakhovsky. He
missed 20 months between May 2018 and January 2020 due to a right shoulder injury and did not compete
following the resumption of play after the hiatus between March and August last year. He returned to action at the
Great Ocean Road Open in Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open this year.
• Lu’s best performance at Roland Garros is reaching the 2nd round on two occasions – in 2013, when he
defeated Simone Bolelli before giving a walkover to Philipp Kohlschreiber due to a right ankle injury, and in 2015
(d. Blaz Kavcic, l. Kevin Anderson).
• Lu’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the quarterfinals at 2010 Wimbledon, where he defeated Horacio
Zeballos, Michal Przysiezny, Florian Mayer and Andy Roddick before falling to Novak Djokovic.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Lu fell to Reilly Opelka in the 1st round at the Australian Open.
• Lu is bidding to record his 2nd Tour-level match-win this season. His only Tour-level match-win so far this year
came in a 2nd round finish at Miami-1000 (d. Sam Querrey, l. Daniil Medvedev). His only other Tour-level
appearances this year came at the Great Ocean Road Open in Melbourne, where he fell to Aleksandar Vukic in
the 1st round, and at the Australian Open.
• Lu is bidding to record his first match-win on clay, at any level, since he defeated Kavcic to reach the 2nd round
here in 2015. His only other appearances on clay since then, at any level, both came at Roland Garros – in 2016,
when he fell to Djokovic in the 1st round, and 2017.
• Lu is bidding to end a 9-match losing streak against Top 10 players. He has not defeated a Top 10 player
since defeating No. 5 Tomas Berdych in the 2nd round at 2014 Cincinnati-1000. He has a 1-8 win-loss record
against Top 10 opposition at the Grand Slams – with his only victory against a Top 10 player at a major coming
against No. 7 Roddick in the round of 16 at 2010 Wimbledon – and has a 7-28 win-loss record against Top 10
opposition overall.
• Lu has won one of the last 5 five-set matches he has contested. His only victory in a 5-set match in that time
came against Aleksandr Nedovyesov in the 1st round at 2014 Wimbledon. He has lost the only 5-set match he
has contested at Roland Garros, falling to Jeremy Chardy in 5 sets in the 1st round in 2012. He has a 9-8
win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Lu reached a career-high ranking of No. 33 in November 2010. He plays here at No. 680 but entered the
tournament using a protected ranking of No. 71.
• Lu has won 3 Tour-level doubles titles – on hard courts at 2005 Chennai alongside Rainer Schuettler (d.
Mahesh Bhupathi/Jonas Bjorkman), at 2012 Bangkok alongside Danai Udomchoke (d. Eric Butorac/Paul Hanley)
and at 2015 Chennai alongside Jonathan Marray (d. Raven Klaasen/Leander Paes).
• Lu is coached by Stephen Koon.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesNO. 14 GAEL MONFILS (FRA) v ALBERT RAMOS-VINOLAS (ESP)
Head-to-head: Monfils leads 4-2
2011 Hamburg Clay (O) R32 Monfils 64 62
2016 Indian Wells-1000 Hard (O) R32 Monfils 61 63
2019 Indian Wells-1000 Hard (O) R32 Monfils 60 63
2019 Rome-1000 Clay (O) R64 Ramos-Vinolas 63 61
2019 US Open Hard (O) R128 Monfils 76(2) 64 63
2019 Zhuhai Hard (O) QF Ramos-Vinolas 75 64
A 7th Tour-level meeting for Monfils and Ramos-Vinolas, their 3rd on clay and their 2nd at the Grand Slams. The
pair split their 2 meetings on clay, but Monfils won their only previous Grand Slam match, in the 1st round at the
2019 US Open.
Ramos-Vinolas has won 3 of his previous 4 matches against French players at Roland Garros, defeating both
Benjamin Bonzi and Lucas Pouille in 2017 and Adrian Mannarino last year but falling to Benoit Paire in 2012. He
has a 4-6 win-loss record against French players at the Grand Slams and a 29-32 win-loss record against French
players at Tour-level overall.
Monfils has won just one of his last 6 Tour-level matches against lefthanded players, with his only victory against
a lefthander in that time coming against Adrian Mannarino in the 2nd round at Montpellier last year. He has a
52-41 record against lefthanded opposition at Tour-level and a 16-6 win-loss record against lefthanded opposition
at the Grand Slams.
MONFILS v RAMOS-VINOLAS
34 Age 33
15 ATP Ranking (31 May) 38
10 Titles 3
110-54 Career Grand Slam Record 22-37
36-14 Roland Garros Record 11-10
494-286 Career Record 235-254
130-88 Career Record - Clay 165-133
1-5 2021 Record 18-10
1-3 2021 Record - Clay 17-7
17-17 Career Five-Set Record 7-6
2 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 0
196-147 Career Tiebreak Record 88-124
0-2 2021 Tiebreak Record 6-7
• MONFILS is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 13th time. This is his 15th appearance at Roland Garros
and his 55th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Monfils fell to Alexander Bublik in 4 sets in the 1st round. It was only the 2nd time he had lost in
the 1st round here – the only other occasion where he lost his opening match here was on his Roland Garros
debut as a wild card in 2005, when he fell to Guillermo Canas.
• Monfils’ best performance here – and at a Grand Slam – is a semifinal finish in 2008 when, ranked No. 59, he
lost to Roger Federer. He also reached the last 4 at the 2016 US Open (l. Novak Djokovic).
• In Grand Slam play this year, Monfils fell to Emil Ruusuvuori in 5 sets in the 1st round at the Australian Open.
It was the first time that he has fallen in the 1st round at back-to-back Grand Slam events since 2005-06, when
he fell to Djokovic in the 1st round at the 2005 US Open and to Luis Horna in the 1st round at the 2006 Australian
Open.
• Monfils is bidding to record his 111th Grand Slam match-win today. He is in 2nd place on the all-time list for
most Grand Slam match-wins by a Frenchman. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (121 Grand Slam match-wins) is the only
Frenchman to have recorded more Grand Slam match-wins than Monfils.
• Monfils is bidding to record his 2nd Tour-level match-win since the Tour resumed following the hiatus
between March and August last year. Since returning to competition at Rome-1000 last September, his only
match-win has come in a 2nd round finish at Lyon this year (d. Thiago Seyboth Wild, l. Yoshihito Nishioka). He
has lost his opening match at the other 7 individual events he has contested since last September, and lost the
only singles match he contested at the ATP Cup.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• On clay in 2021, in addition to his 2nd round finish at Lyon, Monfils lost his opening matches at both Rome-1000
(l. Lorenzo Sonego) and Belgrade II last week (l. Roberto Carballes Baena). He withdrew from Monte Carlo-1000
due to a calf injury.
• Monfils has won 10 Tour-level titles. His first title, at 2005 Sopot, where he defeated Florian Mayer in the final,
is the only Tour-level title he has won on clay.
• Monfils reached a career-high ranking of No. 6 in November 2016. He dropped out of the Top 10 after Roland
Garros last year and plays here at No. 15, his lowest-ranking since he was ranked No. 15 in August 2019.
• Monfils has played 14 of the 34 five-set matches he has contested at Roland Garros. He has a 10-4 win-loss
record in 5-set matches at Roland Garros and a 17-17 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Monfils is one of 18 Frenchmen to begin the main draw at this year’s Roland Garros. He is the highest-ranked
home player here this year. Yannick Noah is the only Frenchman to have won a Grand Slam title Open Era,
winning the title here in 1983. The last French finalist at Roland Garros was Henri Leconte in 1988.
• Monfils narrowly missed out on achieving the Junior Grand Slam in 2004 after winning the Australian Open,
Roland Garros and Wimbledon. His preparation for the junior US Open that year was hampered by a knee injury
and he lost in the 3rd round to Viktor Troicki. He was named 2004 ITF Junior Boys’ World Champion. Monfils is
one of 8 former Roland Garros junior singles champions to start in the men’s main draw.
• Monfils is coached by Gunter Bresnik and Richard Ruckelshausen.
• RAMOS-VINOLAS is bidding to reach the 2nd round here for the 6th time. This is his 10th appearance at Roland
Garros and his 36th Grand Slam appearance overall.
• Last year here, Ramos-Vinolas reached the 2nd round (d. Adrian Mannarino, l. Marton Fucsovics). His victory
against Mannarino ended a 9-match Grand Slam losing streak and was his first match-win at a major since
reaching the 3rd round here in 2018.
• Ramos-Vinolas’ best Grand Slam result is reaching the quarterfinals here in 2016 (l. Stan Wawrinka).
• In Grand Slam play this year, Ramos-Vinolas fell to Taylor Fritz in 4 sets in the 1st round at the Australian Open.
• Ramos-Vinolas’ best result in 2021 is winning the title at Estoril (d. Cameron Norrie). He also finished runner-up
at Cordoba (l. Juan Manuel Cerundolo) and reached the semifinals at Buenos Aires (l. Francisco Cerundolo) and
Marbella (l. Pablo Carreno Busta).
• Also on clay in 2021, Ramos-Vinolas reached the 3rd round at Barcelona, where he defeated Holger Vitus
Nodskov Rune and Mannarino before falling to Andrey Rublev, and the 2nd round at Madrid-1000 (d. Fritz,
l. Federico Delbonis), but lost his opening matches at both Monte Carlo-1000 (l. Jannik Sinner) and Lyon
(l. Norbert Gombos).
• Ramos-Vinolas is level at the top of the list for most Tour-level match-wins on clay this season, alongside
Federico Delbonis and Stefanos Tsitsipas.
2021 Tour-level win-loss on clay
Rank Player 2021 clay court win-loss
1= Federico Delbonis 17-9
Albert Ramos-Vinolas* 17-7
Stefanos Tsitsipas 17-3
4. Casper Ruud 16-4
5. Rafael Nadal* 14-2
Correct through Monday 31 May; *playing on Tuesday 1 June
• Ramos-Vinolas is bidding to end a 6-match losing streak against Top 20 opposition at the Grand Slams. He
has not defeated a Top 20 player at a Grand Slam since defeating No. 17 Lucas Pouille in the 3rd round here in
2017. He has a 2-15 win-loss record against Top 20 players at the Grand Slams and a 21-78 win-loss record
against Top 20 players at Tour-level overall. He is contesting his 100th Tour-level match against a Top 20
opponent today.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• Clay is Ramos-Vinolas’ best surface and the only surface on which he has a positive win-loss record. He has a
165-133 win-loss record on clay, compared to 64-109 on hard courts and 6-12 on grass.
• Ramos-Vinolas has won all 3 of the 5-set matches he has contested at Roland Garros – defeating Javier Marti
in the 1st round in 2011, Jack Sock in the 3rd round in 2016 and Lucas Pouille in the 3rd round last year. He has
a 7-6 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Ramos-Vinolas reached a career-high ranking of No. 17 in May 2018. He plays here at No. 38 – his highest
ranking since July 2018.
• Ramos-Vinolas has won 3 Tour-level titles, all of which have come on clay. In addition to his victory at Estoril
this year, he also won the titles at 2016 Bastad (d. Fernando Verdasco) and 2019 Gstaad (d. Cedrik-Marcel
Stebe).
• Ramos-Vinolas is coached by Jose Maria Diaz and Noe Losmozos.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesNO. 20 FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME (CAN) v ANDREAS SEPPI (ITA)
Head-to-head: first meeting
AUGER-ALIASSIME v SEPPI
20 Age 37
21 ATP Ranking (31 May) 98
0 Titles 3
8-7 Career Grand Slam Record 59-63
0-1 Roland Garros Record 11-15
76-62 Career Record 377-407
20-20 Career Record - Clay 129-135
14-10 2021 Record 0-3
4-5 2021 Record - Clay 0-1
0-1 Career Five-Set Record 22-21
0 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 5
42-28 Career Tiebreak Record 152-182
3-7 2021 Tiebreak Record 0-1
• AUGER-ALIASSIME is bidding to record his first Roland Garros match-win. This is his 2nd appearance here and
his 8th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, on his Roland Garros debut, Auger-Aliassime fell to Yoshihito Nishioka in straight sets in the 1st
round.
• Auger-Aliassime’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the round of 16 on 2 occasions – at the US Open last year
(l. Dominic Thiem) and at the Australian Open this year, where he fell to Aslan Karatsev in 5 sets despite holding
a 2-0 lead. It is the only 5-set match he has contested.
• Auger-Aliassime’s best result in 2021 is reaching the final at the Murray River Open in Melbourne, where he fell
to Daniel Evans in straight sets. He also reached the quarterfinals on hard courts at Acapulco and on clay at
Barcelona, falling to Stefanos Tsitsipas on both occasions.
• Also on clay this year, Auger-Aliassime reached the 3rd round at Rome-1000, where he defeated Filip Krajinovic
and Diego Schwartzman before falling to Federico Delbonis, but fell in the 1st round at Monte Carlo-1000
(l. Cristian Garin), Madrid-1000 (l. Casper Ruud) and Lyon (l. Lorenzo Musetti).
• Auger-Aliassime has reached 7 Tour-level singles finals but is yet to win his first title. He has lost all 7 Tour-
level finals he has contested in straight sets. Two of the 7 finals he has reached have been at clay court events –
at 2019 Rio de Janeiro (l. Laslo Djere) and 2019 Lyon (l. Benoit Paire).
• Auger-Aliassime broke the Top 20 for the first time in August 2019 and reached a career-high ranking of No. 17
in October that year. He plays here 4 places lower at No. 21.
• Auger-Aliassime was a successful junior. He won the boys’ singles title at the 2016 US Open (d. Miomir
Kecmanovic) and finished runner-up in the boys’ singles at 2016 Roland Garros (l. Geoffrey Blancaneaux). He
was also part of Canadian teams that reached back-to-back Junior Davis Cup Finals in 2015-16, defeating
Germany to win the title in 2015 but finishing runner-up to Russia in 2016.
• Auger-Aliassime made his Davis Cup debut in 2019, as the Canadian team reached the final for the first time. He
fell to Roberto Bautista Agut in the first match of the final and has a 1-3 win-loss record in the competition overall.
Canada will compete alongside Kazakhstan and Sweden in Group B at the 2021 Davis Cup Finals.
• Auger-Aliassime is coached by Frederic Fontang and Toni Nadal.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notes• SEPPI is bidding the 2nd round here for the 8th time – and for the first time since 2017. This is his 16th Roland
Garros appearance and his 64th Grand Slam overall.
• Last year here, Seppi fell to Sebastian Korda in the 1st round. He also fell in the 1st round in both 2018 (l. Richard
Gasquet) and 2019 (l. Fabio Fognini).
• Seppi’s best Grand Slam performance is reaching the round of 16 on 6 occasions – including Roland Garros in
2012, where he fell to world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in 5 sets despite leading 2-0. He also reached the round of 16
at the Australian Open in 2013 (l. Jeremy Chardy), 2015 (l. Nick Kyrgios), 2017 (l. Stan Wawrinka) and 2018
(l. Kyle Edmund), and at 2013 Wimbledon (l. Juan Martin del Potro).
• Seppi is appearing at his 63rd consecutive Grand Slam event, putting him in 4th place on the list for most
consecutive Grand Slam men’s singles appearances. It is also the 2nd-longest active streak of Grand Slam men’s
singles appearances, after Feliciano Lopez’s streak of 76 consecutive Grand Slams played including this event.
Seppi has not missed a Grand Slam since 2005 Roland Garros.
• Seppi is bidding to record his first Tour-level match-win this season. He has lost in the 1st round at all 3 Tour-
level events he has contested in 2021 – at the Great Ocean Road Open in Melbourne (l. Salvatore Caruso), at
the Australian Open and on clay at Parma last week (l. Korda).
• Also in 2021, Seppi has contested 3 Challenger events in Biella (ITA), winning the title at one of the events in
March, defeating Liam Broady in the final. He also reached the semifinals at the event in February (l. Lorenzo
Musetti).
• Seppi has recorded one Tour-level match-win since the resumption of play following the Tour’s hiatus
between March and August last year. His only Tour-level match-win in that time came in a 2nd round finish as a
wild card at Nur-Sultan in October (d. Aslan Karatsev, l. Mackenzie McDonald).
• Seppi has lost the last 6 five-set matches he has contested. He has not won a 5-set match since defeating Ivo
Karlovic in the 3rd round at the 2018 Australian Open. He has a 4-3 win-loss record in 5-set matches at Roland
Garros and a 23-20 win-loss record in 5-set matches overall.
• Seppi has won 3 Tour-level singles titles, including one on clay at 2012 Belgrade (d. Benoit Paire). He also won
the titles at on grass at 2011 Eastbourne (d. Janko Tipsarevic) and on hard courts at 2012 Moscow (d. Thomaz
Bellucci).
• Seppi is a former Top 20 player, having reached a career-high ranking of No. 18 in January 2013. He dropped
to No. 108 in February this year – his lowest-ranking since July 2007, when he was ranked at No. 111 – but plays
here at No. 98.
• Seppi has been coached by Massimo Sartori since 1995.
2021 Roland Garros day 3 men’s match notesNO. 29 UGO HUMBERT (FRA) v RICARDAS BERANKIS (LTU)
Head-to-head: first meeting
Berankis is facing a French player at Roland Garros for the 3rd time. He lost both of his previous matches against
French players here – falling to Julien Benneteau in the 1st round in 2013 and to Nicolas Mahut in the 1st round
in 2016. He has also lost all 5 matches he has contested against French opposition at the Grand Slams and has
a 9-17 win-loss record against French opposition at Tour-level overall.
Berankis has a 3-3 win-loss record against players at their home Grand Slams. In addition to his 2 defeats to
French players here, he also lost his only match against a British player at Wimbledon, but won both of his matches
against American players at the US Open and also won his only match against an Australian player at the
Australian Open.
Berankis is facing a lefthanded player at Roland Garros for the first time. He has a 3-4 win-loss record against
lefthanded players at the Grand Slams and a 20-24 win-loss record against lefthanded players at Tour-level
overall.
HUMBERT v BERANKIS
22 Age 30
32 ATP Ranking (31 May) 93
2 Titles 0
6-9 Career Grand Slam Record 17-30
0-2 Roland Garros Record 1-7
50-49 Career Record 117-132
6-12 Career Record - Clay 12-27
7-11 2021 Record 6-7
1-5 2021 Record - Clay 2-4
1-3 Career Five-Set Record 6-4
1 Comebacks from 0-2 Down 2
28-28 Career Tiebreak Record 59-60
4-6 2021 Tiebreak Record 3-1
• Lefthander HUMBERT is contesting his 100th Tour-level match today.
• Humbert is bidding to record his first Roland Garros match-win. This is his 3rd appearance here and his 10th
Grand Slam appearance overall.
• Last year here, Humbert fell to Marc Polmans in 4 sets in the 1st round. He also fell in the 1st round on his only
other appearance here, in 2019, when he fell to Alexei Popyrin in 4 sets.
• Humbert recorded his best Grand Slam result at 2019 Wimbledon, where he reached the round of 16. He
defeated Gael Monfils, Marcel Granollers and Felix Auger-Aliassime before falling to Novak Djokovic in the last
16.
• In Grand Slam play this year, Humbert reached the 2nd round at the Australian Open, where he defeated
Yasutaka Uchiyama before falling to Nick Kyrgios in 5 sets. He has a 1-3 win-loss record in 5-set matches and
has never contested a 5-set match at Roland Garros.
• Humbert’s best results in 2021 are reaching the semifinals at Marseille (l. Pierre-Hugues Herbert) and the
quarterfinals at Montpellier (l. Roberto Bautista Agut).
• Humbert is bidding to record his 2nd Tour-level match-win on clay this season. His only match-win on clay in
2021 came in a quarterfinal finish at Estoril, after receiving a bye through the 1st round (d. Marco Cecchinato,
l. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina). He fell in the 1st round at Monte Carlo-1000 (l. John Millman), Madrid-1000
(l. Aslan Karatsev), Rome-1000 (l. Jannik Sinner) and Lyon (l. Yoshihito Nishioka).
• Clay is Humbert’s weakest surface. It is the only surface on which he has a negative win-loss record – he has a
6-12 Tour-level win-loss record on clay, compared to 38-33 on hard courts and 6-4 on grass.
• Humbert is one of 18 Frenchmen to begin the main draw at this year’s Roland Garros. He is the highest-ranked
home player here this year. Yannick Noah is the only Frenchman to have won a Grand Slam title Open Era,
winning the title here in 1983. The last French finalist at Roland Garros was Henri Leconte in 1988.
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