performance on the clay courts of paris. the wimbledon champion eased past the 21st seed, felix auger aliassime, winning in straight sets injust over two hours. alcaraz will play stefanos tsitsipas in the quarter finals, after the greek ninth seed beat matteo arnaldi in four sets. he didn t beat me, yeah. so the matches that we ve played i won all of them. so that s what i wanted to mean when i said that they have the key against him. i know when stefanos is playing great, but i know technically what i have to do in the match. jannik sinner survived a scare to book his place in the quarterfinals. he lost the opening set against home favourite corentin moutet but the second seed fought back to win in four, and will play grigor dimitrov next who s reached the last eight for the first time in his career at the age of 33. well, it has been a busy day of action with no rain finally, and the tournament climax getting nearer. earlier, we spoke to our tennis correspondent who s
and, in the case of iga swiatek, 6 0, 6 0 against anastasia potapova, who is the world number 41. potapova won just ten points, and the match lasted a0 minutes the quickest professional win of swiatek s career, we are told. so under demolition and ominous for the rest of the world, especially as swiatek was 5 2 down to naomi osaka in the second round. there may be others in the draw regretting that that got away from osaka. bbc s russell fuller there. to the t20 men s world cup where there s been double success for the co hosts on the opening day of the tournament. the west indies got off to a winning start by beating papa new guinea. set 137 to win, the west indies reached their target with five wickets in hand and five overs to spare. both teams face uganda in their next fixture. and the other co hosts,