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Roland-Garros wrap - Sat May 30

Gauff and Anisimova say goodbye on Saturday

Anastasia Potapova / Troisième tour - Roland-Garros 2026
©Cédric Lecocq / FFT
 - Lee Goodall

During a period of around 90 minutes early on Saturday evening, Roland-Garros 2026 turned the crazy dial up another couple of notches towards the end of a week that has left most tennis experts scratching their heads in disbelief.

In the hour between 7-8pm, four electric matches came to a crescendo as Matteo Berrettini won a deciding tiebreak 15-13, the incredible Moise Kouame’s run finally came to an end, Anastasia Potapova beat defending champion Coco Gauff and a few moments later the tournament’s longest match finished on Court 7.

➡️ Saturday results

➡️ Sunday order of play

Potapova’s defeat of 2025 champion Gauff was the biggest shock on Day 7 as the No.28 seed continued her strong clay season to beat the two-time major winner 4-6, 7-6(1), 6-4 on Chatrier.

Earlier the women’s draw lost the No.6 seed Amanda Anisimova when a partisan crowd pushed Diane Parry to a 6-3, 4-6, 7-6[10-3] result on the main court. Later former semifinalist Madison Keys fought past the ninth seed Victoria Mboko 7-5 in the third.

So there’ll be no Aryna Sabalenka-Gauff semifinal in the top half but there will be an intriguing clash between the world No.1 and four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka after both won on Saturday.

Sabalenka beat Daria Kasatkina 6-0, 7-5 while Osaka had to use all her experience to get past talented American 18-year-old Iva Jovic 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-4. 

For a while that incredible Berrettini final tiebreak success over Argentina’s Francisco Comesana - saving two match points along the way - was the longest contest of the event at five hours 13 minutes, but their record didn’t survive for long.

Former Grand Slam finalist Berrettini was joined in the fourth round by fellow Italians Flavio Cobolli, who crushed American Learner Tien, and Matteo Arnaldi who scrambled over the line in another deciding tiebreak 10-4 against Belgium’s Raphael Collignon.

The longest match of the tournament goes to the man who beat Jannik Sinner in the second round, Juan Manuel Cerundolo, and his opponent Martin Landaluce. Cerundolo was the iron man of Roland-Garros on Saturday winning 6-4, 6-7(7), 7-6(4), 6-7(4), 7-6[10-8] after an eye-watering five hours and 58 minutes on another day when temperatures sat in the 30c-plus territory.

Late on, American Frances Tiafoe did a great job of turning around his match with Portuguese qualifier Jaime Faria who led by two sets and a break. The No.19 seed hit back to win 6-2 in the fifth after four hours.

And in the last match on court No.4 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime made sure of his presence in the last 16 with a four-set win over Brandon Nakashima during the Chatrier night session.

On Sunday the fourth round begins in the bottom halves of both singles draws - four men’s matches and four women’s singles. 

With things getting serious and with quarterfinal spots up for grabs, Alix Ramsay assesses the order of play and picks out the best of the bunch.