On Thursday, Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo – brother of Francisco – was on court for a little over three and a half hours as he came from two sets down to beat an ailing Jannik Sinner in the second round. <\/p>\n
Two days later, the world number 56 was involved in another five-set epic, beating Spain’s Martin Landaluce 6-4 6-7 (7-9) 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (10-8) to advance to the second week at a major for the first time. <\/p>\n
Lasting five hours and 58 minutes, it is the third-longest match in Roland Garros history and the longest since fifth-set tie-breaks were introduced in 2022. <\/p>\n
His fourth-round opponent is Italian Matteo Berrettini, who contested five tie-breaks and took five hours and 13 minutes to beat Francisco Comesana. He won the final-set shootout 15-13. <\/p>\n
Berrettini, 30, is playing in the French Open for the first time since reaching the quarter-finals in 2021, and his first major since last year’s Wimbledon due to injury. <\/p>\n
Unseeded Italian Matteo Arnaldi clocked in two minutes shy of the five-hour mark is his win over Raphael Collignon, with Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca – who downed Novak Djokovic – Rafael Jodar, Jesper de Jong, and Casper Ruud contesting marathon matches on Friday. <\/p>\n
Cobolli and 11th seed Andrey Rublev were the only players to advance in straight sets. <\/p>\n
“This is just outrageous,” Annabel Croft said on BBC Radio 5 Live’s French Open Daily podcast. <\/p>\n
“It’s not just the physical side of it, it’s the mental capacity to keep focusing for that amount of time while you’re sprinting back and forth. <\/p>\n
“I think the crowds that came here today have been absolutely treated to some spectacular drama and entertainment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo – brother of Francisco – was on court for a little over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-705374","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\/705374","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=705374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}