French Open 2025 Day Eleven Recap

Wednesday at Roland Garros delivered two assertion wins, confirming the Friday semi-final lineup in Paris.

Jannik Sinner produced one other commanding efficiency, dismantling Alexander Bublik in slightly below two hours to achieve his sixth Grand Slam semi-final.

Later within the day, Novak Djokovic reminded everybody why he’s nonetheless a power in Paris, recovering from a gradual begin to defeat Alexander Zverev in 4 units.

The 24-time Slam champion now strikes into his thirteenth Roland Garros semi-final and can face Sinner in a blockbuster Friday conflict.

With Alcaraz vs. Musetti already locked in from the highest half, the ultimate 4 is about. Right here’s how Day Eleven unfolded on the clay.

Day Eleven French Open 2025 Quarter Closing Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Jannik Sinner (1)
Alexander Bublik
6-1 7-5 6-0

Novak Djokovic (6)
Alexander Zverev (3)
4-6 6-3 6-2 6-4

Jannik Sinner (1) def Alexander Bublik 6-1 7-5 6-0

Jannik Sinner is into his sixth Grand Slam semi-final after seeing off Alexander Bublik 6-1, 7-5, 6-0.

The World No. 1 dominated on Courtroom Philippe-Chatrier, utilizing his trademark precision to counter Bublik’s sport in a one-hour, 48-minute rout.

I believed Bublik would possibly trigger just a few issues, as Sinner has proven all match that he’s far too good for ball machine-type gamers.

Bublik presents one thing a bit totally different, however he began nervously, making means too many errors as he dropped the opener 6-1.

That set the tone for the match because it sucked any perception out of Bublik, and though he rallied within the second set when he obtained his dropshot working properly, Sinner broke within the eleventh sport to grab the set after which went on to bagel Bublik within the third, successful the final eight video games of the match.

We performed a pair occasions already, so you realize a bit of bit what to anticipate. However in one other means, with him, you by no means know what is going on. He deserved to be within the quarter-finals, he beat very robust opponents. I attempted to remain centered from my facet of the courtroom and play as stable as doable as he can have some ups and downs. I’m attempting to serve very nicely in essential moments, which I’ve achieved. Towards this sort of participant, you must be constant as a result of for those who make lots of errors, it’s a sport the place if we each serve very nicely, there’s already not so many rallies. I attempted to get rhythm with the rallies. I’m very comfortable and pleased with how I arrived within the semi-finals. Semi-finals in Grand Slams are very particular, so I’m trying ahead to it. Sinner on his win.

Match Stats

Jannik Sinner
Alexander Bublik

Winners
31
22

Unforced Errors
13
37

Aces
5
5

Double Faults
1
6

1st Serve %
60% (46/77)
64% (57/89)

1st Serve Factors Gained
78% (36/46)
68% (39/57)

2nd Serve Factors Gained
69% (22/32)
22% (7/32)

Break Factors Saved
100% (2/2)
57% (8/14)

Service Video games
100% (13/13)
50% (6/12)

1st Return Factors Gained
32% (18/57)
22% (10/46)

2nd Return Factors Gained
78% (25/32)
31% (10/32)

Break Factors Gained
43% (6/14)
0% (0/2)

Return Video games
50% (6/12)
0% (0/13)

Strain Factors
50% (8/16)
50% (8/16)

Service Factors
74% (57/77)
51% (45/89)

Return Factors
49% (44/89)
26% (20/77)

Internet Factors
58% (18/31)
43% (9/21)

Whole Factors
61% (101/166)
39% (65/166)

Match Factors Saved
0
0

Max Factors In A Row
7
4

Whole Video games
76% (19/25)
24% (6/25)

Max Video games In A Row
9
1

Highlights

Novak Djokovic (6) def Alexander Zverev (6) 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-4

Novak Djokovic delivered a commanding efficiency on Wednesday night at Roland Garros, overcoming final yr’s finalist Alexander Zverev 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 to achieve his 51st Grand Slam semi-final.

Zverev began strongly, taking a 2-0 lead and successful the primary set with a 17/18 first-serve level success charge. However you would sense Novak was stepping into issues, and after being damaged in his opening service sport, he by no means seemed like dropping serve once more.

Within the second set, Djokovic started to combine up his sport, disrupting Zverev’s baseline sport with a various strategy that included drop pictures and web play, to stage the rating shortly.

He maintained this strategy till the tip, mixing brief factors, web exchanges, and gruelling rallies, together with a 41-shot rally to avoid wasting a break level within the fourth set’s sixth sport, which is some extent of the yr contender.

He then sealed the three-hour, 18-minute victory on his fifth match level to maneuver into his thirteenth Roland Garros semi-final.

A couple of weeks in the past, I used to be considering Novak may even skip clay to deal with the grass season, given his early-season struggles. Nonetheless, he has regained prime kind, arriving in Paris contemporary off his one centesimal tour-level title in Geneva, and he’s now on a nine-match win streak.

Tonight, I believed he performed very solidly and exploited the weaknesses in Zverev’s sport. I’m reluctant to say ‘nice’ as I’m undecided about Zverev’s stage of play.

The German is a straightforward goal for criticism, so I don’t wish to kick him whereas he’s down, however his report towards the very best in Slams is comparatively poor (8/15 vs. Prime 10), and tonight was a weak efficiency the place he by no means seemed like he thought he was the winner on the market.

Djokovic was all the time one step forward of him, as he learn his sport simply, and he hit his groundstrokes with much more conviction (averaging +3mph extra). So, it was the identical outdated story for Sascha: too passive at occasions and never grabbing the bull by the horns. When he goes one arrange, he has to maintain his foot down, not begin hitting by way of the center of the courtroom from means again. Sarcastically, probably the greatest factors he performed was when saving one of many 4 match factors within the last sport 😕

Particularly over the last sport, my tactic was simply to play drop pictures. So I performed three or 4 in a row… Possibly you possibly can’t see it on TV, however there’s lots of wind from one facet, so it provides the feeling that you should hit twice as laborious. It was essential to fluctuate the sport. Evidently there was lots of stress on the finish, Zverev has been probably the greatest gamers on the earth over the previous six years. Matches like this tonight are the rationale why I nonetheless wish to play and compete. Djokovic on his win.