{"id":687293,"date":"2026-05-22T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/687293\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:21:18","slug":"roland-garros-wrap-thur-may-21-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/687293\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland-Garros wrap &#8211; Thur May 21 &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As for the serious business of fighting through three rounds of qualifying, 16 players are celebrating on Thursday night after making it mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s second seed Sinja Kraus was the first player through, and she was followed by the likes of former finalist Sloane Stephens and Egypt\u2019s Mayar Sherif later in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dan Imhoff sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-womens-qualifying-sherif-turns-the-tables-for-main-draw-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">30-year-old Sherif to hear about how she\u2019s starting to rediscover her best tennis after a difficult few months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At 29 years of age, Andrea Pellegrino delivered one of the greatest feel good stories of the day when he beat fellow Italian Marco Cecchinato in straight sets to reach a Grand Slam main draw for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-pellegrino-and-faurel-revel-in-rg-qualification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the world No.126 &#8211; who also reached the last 16 in Rome recently &#8211; told RG\u2019s Alex Sharp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-year-old Frenchman Thomas Faurel, Italy\u2019s Federico Cina, American graduate Michael Zheng and Jaime Faria from Portugal &#8211; the man who beat Grigor Dimitrov in the opening round &#8211; all booked main draw spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As for the serious business of fighting through three rounds of qualifying, 16 players are celebrating on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-687293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}