| Dates: 22 May-5 June Venue: Roland Garros, Paris |
| Coverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app |
After a five-set battle with Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime in Paris, Rafael Nadal set up a French Open quarter-final against long-time rival Novak Djokovic.
Nadal dropped sets for the first time at this year's event but recovered to win.
The 15th seed Diego Schwartzman was beaten by the top seed.
In his fourth-round match, the 35-year-old Serb produced his best level so far in the tournament to win 6-1 6-3.
Nadal beat Auger-Aliassime later on Sunday to set up a 59th career meeting with Novak Djokovic.
Alexander Zverev booked his place in the quarter-finals despite a patchy display against Bernabe Zapata Miralles.
The German will face the winner of the night session between Carlos Alcaraz and Karen Khachanov.
The two-time champion has played fewer tournaments than usual this year but is showing signs of peaking at the right time.
Schwartzman was supposed to be the toughest test so far.
The professional display by the Serbian was less comfortable than the score suggested.
He was banned from entering the United States because he was not up to date on his vaccinations, and he was deported from Australia because he was not up to date on his immunizations.
He came into the clay-court Grand Slam on the back of winning the Italian Open in Rome after an early exit at Monte Carlo.
In Paris, he started with straight-set wins against Japan, Slovakia, and Aljaz Bedene.
As he walked on to the court to face Schwartzman, a few boos were heard, despite his status as one of the sport's all-time greats.
Schwartzman was supported by a noisy crowd on the second show court in Paris and thrived off the energy in the opening stages.
After holding his first service game, he broke in the next and then in the next three games, he won the first set.
The support for Schwartzman continued to be vociferously in favour of him as he was down 2-0 at the start of the second set.
The crowd's support of Schwartzman as added motivation, marked the moment he tied the match at 3-3, as a trademark roar from Djokovic.
After a tight start to the third set, the Serbian broke for a 4-2 lead that enabled him to extend his 100% record over Schwartzman to a seventh match.
In contrast to the dominant display by Novak, Zverev just about produced enough quality to end the run of unseeded Spaniard Zapata Miralles.
The German, who hit 63 unforced errors and eight double faults but came good on the majority of the match's big moments, was slightly flattered by the straight-set score.
The difference was his excellent conversion rate of eight of nine break-point opportunities, which proved to be the difference in the first set.
The world number 131 Zapata Miralles, who had won only one Grand Slam match before this tournament, twice was ahead with service breaks in the second set but lost five of seven games from 4-2 up.
More to come.
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