The Ukrainian gave birth to daughter Skai in October and played her first tournament in more than a year at the beginning of April.

She arrived in Paris on the back of a WTA title in Strasbourg and, watched by husband Gael Monfils, extended her winning run to eight matches with a 6-4 7-6 (5) success against ninth seed Kasatkina.

Alfie Hewett is enjoying being the man to be shot at in wheelchair tennis as he prepares to bid for a fourth French Open title.

The retirement at the beginning of the year of Hewett’s big rival Shingo Kunieda after one of the great tennis careers left the Norfolk player as world number one.

Hewett first won the French Open as a teenager and has been used to being the relative new kid on the block but now he finds a host of younger players challenging him.

Top of that pile is Kunieda’s Japanese compatriot, 17-year-old Tokito Oda, who was beaten by Hewett in the Australian Open final in January.

Hewett told the PA news agency: “It is strange. I’m 25 so I don’t see myself as being the experienced one when you have the likes of Gordy (doubles partner Gordon Reid) and some of the others who are five to 10 years older than me.

“But I guess this is my eighth year on tour so I do have experience. I’ve been fortunate enough to play in some big moments and I thought the Australian Open final demonstrated that, managing the occasion probably in a better way than Tokito did, but he’s such an unbelievable talent.”

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Holger Rune had a chance to finish off Francisco Cerundolo at last - but the mammoth five-set match continues.

Dane Rune just needed to hold his own serve to wrap up victory, but Cerundolo broke back and on the match goes.

7-6 3-6 6-4 1-6 5-5

Daria Kasatkina has hit out at the French Open crowd after she was booed off court following her defeat by Elina Svitolina.

Knowing Ukrainian players’ stance of not shaking hands with Russian or Belarusian opponents at the end of matches, Kasatkina gave Svitolina a thumbs up, which was reciprocated, before walking to her chair.

Some of the fans on Suzanne Lenglen then responded by booing the Russian as she walked off court.

Holger Rune 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 1-6, 1-1 Francisco Cerundolo

A nice, solid start to the deciding set from Cerundolo as he holds serve and then he pushes Rune hard in his first service game.

He forces deuce but a Rune drop shot-passing shot combo fires up the crowd and then a return off a big first serve is long, meaning the Norwegian escapes with no real damage done.

SET! Holger Rune 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 1-6 Francisco Cerundolo

Cerundolo is conducting the crowd after winning a brilliant point where he pulls off a hotdog (between-the-legs shot) and then comes up with a scintillating backhand winner.

Another thunderous forehand brings up three set points and a double fault from Rune finishes it off. That was a brilliant set of tennis from the Argentine and we’re going all the way!

Holger Rune 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 1-4 Francisco Cerundolo

It’s a double break for Cerundolo as he races into a 4-0 lead. Rune finally stops the rot to hold serve in the fifth game and narrow the gap to 4-1 but we’re starting to look destined for a fifth set here.

Holger Rune 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 0-2 Francisco Cerundolo

Cerundolo might be channelling that righteous anger as he breaks Rune in a marathon opening game of the fourth set and then holds serve himself. He has been crunching his groundstrokes in the early going here.

RESULT! Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 5-7, 2-6 Coco Gauff

And it’s there for Coco Gauff. She serves out the match to triumph 7-5, 6-2 and reach the quarter-finals. A battling performance from the American. Even the final game sees Schmiedlova have a break point but Gauff battles back to seal the deal.

Credit to Schmiedlova, who pushed her all the way and could have snatched that first set at the end

SET! Holger Rune 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 Francisco Cerundolo

Francisco Cerundolo is not a happy bunny right now and, frankly, he has every right to be livid. Rune has absolutely pinched this third set with a vital break of serve at 5-4.

Let’s start with the good – Rune brings up set point with an otherworldy forehand as he slides across baseline out wide that arcs in and somehow finds the back left corner of the court. It’s sublime.

But Cerundolo is shouting and holding up two fingers to the umpire and his box - in reference to the clear double bounce that wasn’t spotted earlier in the set and led to him being broken.