French Open 2024 semi-finals order of play and schedule: Carlos Alcaraz v Jannik Sinner, Casper Ruud v Alexander Zverev – Eurosport

A mouth-watering encounter between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner headlines day 13 of the French Open. 

The pair play second on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Friday, following the first semi-final of the men’s wheelchair doubles, which sees the Japanese second seeds Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in action against the unseeded French pair Federic Cattaneo and Guilhem Laget. 

Alcaraz and Sinner will not take to the court until 13:30 UK time, and the second men’s semi-final is between Casper Ruud, the Norwegian seventh seed, and Alexander Zverev, the German fourth seed. 

They are the two form players in the men’s draw right now, but there were doubts over the pair’s fitness coming into the tournament. 

Alcaraz was nursing a forearm injury, and has been wearing a protective sleeve throughout Roland-Garros, while Sinner had been struggling with a hip injury that forced him out of the Rome Open.

However, both have proved their doubters wrong, hitting top form on the Parisian clay, and Court Philippe-Chatrier will be in for a thriller on Friday. 

The head-to-head record is four wins apiece, although Alcaraz won the previous meeting between the pair in the semi-finals of Indian Wells. 

Both men have just dropped one set en route to the last four, with Sinner losing the opener of his second round to Corentin Moutet, the unseeded Frenchman, while Alcaraz was given a third-set scare by the Dutch qualifier and Jack Draper’s conqueror, Jesper de Jong. 

Two clay-court titans will conclude play on Chatrier, with the two-time finalist Casper Ruud, who has reached the last Sunday of the previous two French Opens, desperate to go one further and claim his first Grand Slam title. 

However, he meets the in-form German Zverev, who has endured a tough run to the semi-finals, beating record 14-time Roland-Garros champion Rafael Nadal in his first round, before coming through two five-set thrillers against Tallon Griekspoor and Holger Rune in his third and fourth rounds. 

The Norwegian has not played since Monday, when he beat Taylor Fritz in four sets, and he was given a fright in his second-round encounter with Alejandro Davidoch Fokina, who took him to five sets. 

The head-to-head record between the two is level at two-wins each, with Ruud beating Zverev at this stage of the French Open last year in their most recent meeting.

• Men’s wheelchair doubles semi-final: Takuya Miki & Tokito Oda v Federic Cattaneo & Guilhem Laget (2)

• Carlos Alcaraz (3) v Jannik Sinner (2)
• Casper Ruud (7) v Alexander Zverev (4)