Roland Garros has thrown the towel at four thirty in the afternoon, after more than four hours without rain tennis, since the games that started at eleven o’clock were interrupted at noon. Faced with the adverse weather, cancellation of today’s Wednesday.
The most benefited, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer, though they could not train, giving up on the indoor track. They are from Tuesday in the semifinals, which will not be played until Friday. They have plenty of time to prepare for their confrontation.
The victims, the tennis players in the top of the table, since the best will be forced to play two days in a row: tomorrow, Thursday, the quarters and Friday, the ‘semis’.
The encounters Novak Djokovic-Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem-Karen Khachanov will reappear in the programming of this Thursday, the 6th.
It also happens with the women’s Simona Halep-Amanda Anisimova and Madison Keys-Ashleigh Barty. The successive winners must go to the track Thursday (quarter), semifinals (now Friday in their case) and final (Saturday.
The semi-final between the British Johanna Konta and the Czech Marketa Vondrous has already been drawn since Tuesday.
The organization has announced that it will refund the price of the tickets to its holders.
In the year 2020 the Philippe-Chatrier center court will have a retractable roof, being the last Grand Slam tournament that will have it.