What to watch on Saturday at Roland-Garros



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After 1 hour For 28 minutes in miserable conditions, the Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem semifinal match was suspended on Friday night. Thiem led 3-1 in the third set. The pair split the first two sets. The match will resume at noon local time (6:00 am Eastern Time). The winner will be much less rested for the final than Rafael Nadal, who beat Roger Federer in two sets earlier Friday, in a wind a little less vexing.

Ashleigh Barty, 23, faces Marketa Vondrousova, 19, for the title of Roland Garros (3am local time, 9am NBC). Both players play in the old, which should appeal to the purists of tennis: Barty, the number 8 seed, has a bad backhand, and Vondrousova, which has not been sown, has a penchant for loose throws.

Both won the semi-finals hands down Friday, but Barty could have a slight advantage in the final as she has already played on Chatrier. Vondrousova's only experience in the stadium, she said, encouraged her Czech compatriot Lucie Safarova in her loss to Serena Williams in the 2015 final.

Each final features an underdog American. The women's final will pit Emma Navarro of South Carolina against first seed Leylah Annie Fernandez, 16, of Canada. Navarro, 18, won the U.S.T.A U.S.T.A National Clay Tennis Championship for 18-year-old girls, winning a wild card at the WTA Charleston, SC this year. (Navarro is three months older than Amanda Anisimova, who played in the women's semifinal on Friday).

The last traits of boys Toby Alex Kodat of Florida, a 16-year-old teenage girl whose half-sister, Nicole Vaidisova, reached the women's semifinal of 2006 here at age 17. Kodat will play seventh seed Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune of Denmark.

The girls' final begins at 5 pm Eastern on Tennis Channel, followed by boys.

Three weeks ago, Kevin Krawietz and his partner, Andreas Mies, defeated Fabrice Martin and Andre Begemann's men's doubles teams in the final of the Challenger competition in Heilbronn, Germany. Saturday, three of these four will meet in the final of the Open de France.

Martin teamed up with Jeremy Chardy in Paris to draw a men's doubles draw full of surprises. Both teams are unscathed, but Krawietz and Mies distinguished themselves by building a football-style human wall in their third-round victory against fourth-placed team Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic.

As in Melbourne in January, Dylan Alcott and David Wagner will play for the first title of the wheelchair quad division at Roland Garros. Alcott which became very important in his native Australia, won the final of the Australian Open in two sets.

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