French Open 2026: Marathon man Arnaldi makes it three Italian men in quarterfinals, even without Sinner

Matteo Arnaldi clawed his mode backmost from the brink to ​become the 3rd Italian antheral successful the French Open ‌quarterfinals connected Monday (June 1, 2026), outlasting American Frances Tiafoe ​7-6(5) 6-7(5) 3-6 7-6(3) 6-4 successful ⁠a delirious late-night epic connected tribunal Suzanne-Lenglen.

With the assemblage crackling nether the Paris floodlights, the satellite fig 104 ‌stared elimination successful the look erstwhile helium trailed 4-1 successful the 4th set, ‌only to summon 1 last surge and ‌prevail ⁠on his 3rd lucifer constituent aft 5 ⁠hours and 26 minutes of ferocious shot-making and lung-busting rallies.

“It’s a imagination to beryllium here. Today successful the 3rd acceptable ​I was truthful ‌tired,” said Arnaldi, the marathon antheral of this year’s tourney aft already needing much than 5 hours to triumph his third-round match.

“We unrecorded ‌to play these matches, I ever wanted ​to play similar this astatine nighttime astatine Roland Garros.

“It was not tennis, conscionable ⁠something else, with everything we had. Someone had to win. Fortunately, it was maine tonight.”

Arnaldi has present ‌spent 17 hours and 42 minutes connected tribunal successful Paris — the astir by immoderate subordinate reaching the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam since the ATP Tour began signaling lucifer times successful 1991.

The Italian produced moments of astir absurd ‌defence to blunt the powerfulness of 19th effect Tiafoe, scrambling ​from country to country and someway turning defence into onslaught successful a lucifer ⁠that repeatedly pushed some men beyond exhaustion.

Tiafoe yet cracked, ⁠dumping a backhand into the net.

Arnaldi volition adjacent look compatriot Matteo Berrettini for a ‌place successful the semi-finals, some joining Flavio Cobolli successful the past 8 aft their compatriot ​Jannik Sinner's astonishment second-round exit.