'I've practised with both of them a little bit and they're incredible ball strikers. There's more to come, I hope they stay injury-free.'
Images from Day 3 of the French Open matches played at Roland Garros in Paris on Tuesday
Whatever the season's results or pundits may suggest, Rafael Nadal -- and not Novak Djokovic -- is the top favourite for the French Open title this year, Roger Federer assessed.
Unseeded Gaston Gaudio fought back from two sets down and saved two match points to win the French Open.
The duo meet in the semi-finals of the German Open.
'I have so much to look forward to in 2021, including the Olympics'
Sharapova's quarter-final defeat by Williams at the 2016 Australian Open was the last competitive match the Russian played for 15 months after she received a doping ban while American Williams was on a maternity break for most of 2017.
Barbora Krejcikova claimed her maiden Grand Slam title when she beat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
The Spaniard, who turns 36 next week, will next meet Dutch 26th seed Botic van de Zandschulp with a potential quarter-final looming against world number one Novak Djokovic who defeated him in last year's semi-finals.
The Spaniard became the first man since Bjorn Borg to win three successive titles at Roland Garros.
Federer picked French teenager Jonathan Eysseric because he is a left-hander, like world No 2 Rafael Nadal, and has a power-based game similar to the Spaniard's.
The Swiss ace came from a set down to snap the Spaniard's 81-match winning streak on clay on Sunday.
Stanislas Wawrinka will hang up his racquet at the end of 2026, the three-times Grand Slam champion announced on Friday, bringing down the curtain on a 24-year professional career that saw him gatecrash tennis's elite during the sport's golden era.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza eased to their second major title as a pair when they thrashed Klaudia Jan-Ignacik and Santiago Gonzalez in the final of the mixed doubles event at the French Open on Thursday.
Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina made a smooth progress to the mixed doubles quarter-finals of the French Open with a 6-2, 6-0 drubbing of Mathilde Johansson and Marc Gicquel.
He will also officiate at Wimbledon along with woman umpire Payal Jain and Ritu Sharma.
World number one Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from next week's Madrid Open for a second consecutive year to rest before the Rome Masters and the French Open, organisers of the clay Masters event said on Wednesday.
