The round of sixteen Roland Garros 2018 has been reached for some, and the highlight has to be the second successive five set escape concocted by second seed Sascha Zverev.
In doing so the German equaled his best effort at a Grand Slam tournament, that of a fourth round at Wimbledon last year.
Damir Dzumhur (26) began on the back foot, losing the opening set and trailing 1-3 in the second.
Zverev lost only four points in his first five service games and he appeared on track for a much easier win than his second round struggle against Dusan Lajovic.
However he somehow lost his way, losing the next five games and the second set.
Dzumhur broke the Zverev serve late in the third set and saved break points when serving out for a two sets to one lead.
When trailing 2-4 in the fourth set, an exit from Paris seemed ever closer for Sascha.
He tightened up his ball striking when it mattered and levelled at 5-5.
Another twist with Dzumhur breaking on his second chance when the second seed double faulted.
Serving for the match, Damir lost all four points and in the tie break was swamped by a rejuvenated Zverev.
The match score saw Dzumhur now level 2-6 6-3 6-4 6-7(3)
In the decider, Zverev broke Dzumhur in the first game and at 4-2 was set for victory. Damir wasn’t done yet and at 5-5 the match was up for grabs again.
The class of Zverev finally showed and the final two games were his, as was the amazing battle 6-2 3-6 4-6 7-6(3) 7-5
He will play the winner of Lucas Pouille (15) and Karen Khachanov in the round of sixteen.
Not so fortunate was fourth seed Grigor Dimitrov - after surviving a five setter against Jared Donaldson, he relented against Fernando Verdasco (30) 7-6(4) 6-2 6-4
Other third round results:
Caroline Wozniacki (2) defeated Pauline Parmentier 6-0 6-3
She will play Daria Kasatkina in the round of sixteen
Daria Kasatkina (14) defeated Maria Sakkari 6-1 1-6 6-3
Madison Keys (13) defeated Naomi Osaka (21) 6-1 7-6(7)
She will play Mihaela Buzarnescu in the round of sixteen
Mihaela Buzarnescu (31) defeated Elina Svitolina (4) 6-3 7-5
Novak Djokovic (20) defeated Roberto Bautista Agut (13) 6-4 6-7(6) 7-6(4) 6-2
He will play Fernando Verdasco in the round of sixteen
Dominic Thiem (7) defeated Matteo Berrettini 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2
He will play Kei Nishikori in the round of sixteen
Kei Nishikori (19) defeated Gilles Simon 6-3 6-1 6-3
Marco Cecchinato defeated Pablo Carreno Busta (10) 2-6 7-6(5) 6-3 6-1
He will play the winner of David Goffin (8) and Gaël Monfils (32) in the round of sixteen
Yulia Putintseva defeated Qiang Wang 1-6 7-5 6-4
She will play Barbora Strycova in the round of sixteen
Barbora Strycova (26) defeated Katerina Siniakova 6-2 6-3
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