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Roland Garros women’s SF scheduling ‘unfair and inappropriate’
Jun 7, 2019
Paris – The French Open’s decision to move the women’s semi-finals away from the tournament’s showpiece court was blasted as “unfair and inappropriate” on Thursday.
After torrential rain washed out all of Wednesday’s play, the last two women’s quarter-finals were played Thursday with the semi-finals pushed back a day until Friday.
However, the semi-final between Ashleigh Barty and Amanda Anisimova will be played on Court Suzanne Lenglen while Johanna Konta’s match with Marketa Vondrousova has been shifted to the smaller 5,000-seater Court Simonne-Mathieu.
The men’s semis between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic against Dominic Thiem will be played on the main Court Philippe Chatrier.
“We are extremely disappointed by the scheduling of both women’s semifinals on outside courts,” said WTA chief executive Steve Simon.
