Roland Garros 2024: Tennis breaks its own rules: Djokovic and Musetti’s match in the ‘top10’ in the early morning

FIt was in January 2024 when the ATP and the WTA issued a unified statement to try to regulate the start and end times of the matches. To avoid disco schedules, no more than five games per day could be scheduled per court..

In the ‘Grand Slam’, for example, since the 2023 US Open, four were played on the main court. The Australian Open repeated the script and that was the intention of Roland Garros until the rain appeared.

On the seventh day of competition, marked for another day by bad weather, The tournament management scheduled five matches at the Philippe Chatrier, including the continuation of the one starring Grigor Dimitrov and Zizou Bergs.

Novak Djokovic and Lorenzo Musetti, who were to start at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, they did it almost at 11:00 p.m.. Conclusion, that their duel lasted for 4 hours and 29 minutes and ended at seven minutes past three in the morning on Sunday.

The match is in the top 10 of those that ended later in the history of tennis. That particular ranking is led by the Acapulco 2022 match between Alexander Zverev and Jason Brooksby, which concluded almost at five in the morning.