{"id":597354,"date":"2026-05-22T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:59:11","slug":"day-5-preview-three-to-watch-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597354\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 preview: Three to watch &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/order-of-play?year=2026&amp;competition=all&amp;annexeCourt=all&amp;principalCourt=all&amp;favoriteFilter=false&amp;country=all&amp;date=2026-05-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Friday May 22 order of play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Court 14, third match<\/p>\n<p>Darwin Blanch vs Luka Pavlovic<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/48187-d.blanch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Darwin<\/a>. The 18-year-old from Boca Raton by way of Thailand (the family moved there when he was one week old) has previous in these parts: aged 15, he reached the boys\u2019 singles semi-finals and was watched closely by Juan Carlos Ferrero as he did so. It comes as no surprise, then, that he now trains at Ferrero\u2019s academy and has practised often with Carlos Alcaraz. But it is Rafael Nadal that springs to mind when you see him: he has an outrageous lefty forehand that can cause serious damage. If he can get into the main draw today, that will be an achievement but even if he doesn\u2019t, we will be seeing much more of Darwin in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u27a1\ufe0f Friday May 22 order of play Court 14, third match Darwin Blanch vs Luka Pavlovic Keep your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}