​Kasper Ruud (last year’s finalist) managed to reach the semifinals of Roland Garros 2023, the Norwegian defeated Holger Roon (consultant Patrick Muratoglu). The “final” of the penultimate act in Paris will take place between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic.

Casper Ruud says Holger Roon made too many mistakes in his Roland Garros quarter-final

At the end of the match with Holger Rune, Norway’s Ruud admitted that he caught his opponent on a rather bad day, giving him a lot of free points (unforced errors).

“I feel very relieved (not after winning the quarters). I wanted only one thing from this match – to perform without pressure. But it is not easy at all, given the stakes of the match.

Roon plays very aggressively, but luckily for me, he didn’t feel very good on the court today in the first two sets. He made a lot of mistakes, so I got a lot of free points.

In the third set he started to play better and better, but in the fourth set I was lucky to make an early break and then hold him until the end” – Casper Ruudquoted by atptour.com.

Roland Garros 2023, semi-finals: Alcaraz – Djokovic and Ruud – Zverev

The two Roland Garros men’s semi-finals will be played on Friday, with kick-off times to be confirmed by French organisers.

You can watch the matches live on Eurosport.

Carlos Alcaraz (1) vs. Novak Djokovic (3) / straight games 1-0

Casper Ruud (4) vs. Oleksandr Zverev (22) / 1-2

The Roland Garros tournament takes place from May 28 to June 11, has a total prize pool of 49.6 million euros, and is the 127th tournament. Iga Sviatek and Rafael Nadal (14-time winner in Paris) became the champions of the title.