On June 4th, local time, the 2024 French Open entered its tenth day of main draw action, with doubles matches moving into the third round. Zhang Zhizhen and Mahachkhvari, playing on Court Suzanne Lenglen, defeated the eighth seeds Gonzalez and Moltini 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the quarterfinals of this year’s Roland Garros men’s doubles competition.
Zhang Zhizhen and Mahachkhvari secured a crucial break in the sixth game of the first set to win it 6-3. In the second set, with the score tied at 5-5, they rallied in the closing stages, breaking and holding serve to clinch the set 7-5 and the match.
Their quarterfinal opponents will be top seeds Granollers and Zeballos. The two pairs previously met this season at the Barcelona Open, where Zhang Zhizhen and Mahachkhvari emerged victorious. They have a good chance of repeating their success in this upcoming encounter.
(Written and edited by Fei Wang)