{"id":683760,"date":"2026-06-04T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:07:27","slug":"roland-garros-wrap-tues-june-2-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683760\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland-Garros wrap – Tues June 2 – Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the men\u2019s draw, another player familiar with semifinals day in Paris is Alexander Zverev. The German can start preparing for his fifth visit to the RG last four after proving too strong for new kid on the block Rafael Jodar. <\/p>\n

Things were looking good for the young Spaniard when he jumped into a 5-2 first set lead but once Zverev had snatched the opener on a tiebreak he cruised to a 7-6(3), 6-1, 6-3 scoreline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The night session was about the next generation as 19-year-old Joao Fonseca and 20-year-old Jakub Mensik battled for a first major semifinal spot and it was the calmer Czech who overall played a more consistent match. <\/p>\n

It looked as though the Brazilian Fonseca might extend the contest when he had set point serving at 5-4 in the third set, but Mensik stood firm and finally finished the job on his seventh match point 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(3)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the men\u2019s draw, another player familiar with semifinals day in Paris is Alexander Zverev. The German can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-683760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}