2021 Roland Garros WTA Thursday Schedule of Play with Serena Williams, Azarenka and Sabalenka

The Roland Garros continues on Thursday with 16 great matches headlined by players such as Barty, Swiatek, Svitolina, Kenin and Gauff.

A brilliant day of tennis in incoming at the Roland Garros and it will start at 11:00 CET. 2020 finalist Sofia Kenin will get us underway against Hailey Baptiste, while Elina Svitolina will take on Li. Ashleigh Barty will also play today, taking on Magda Linette.

Another interesting matchup today will be between Krejcikova and Alexandrova with Maria Sakkari vs Jasmine Paolini not far behind. Elise Mertens will take on Zarina Diyas while Karolina Pliskova will square off against Sloane Stephens. Wang and Gauff will play a rematch of the Parma final from a few days ago with 2021 Australian Open finalist Brady taking on Fiona Ferro.

Anett Kontaveit will take on Kristina Mladenovic in what promises to be a great match with a lot of fans who will support the native Mladenovic. The final match in the WTA order of play will be between Iga Swiatek and Rebecca Peterson. Swiatek looked impressive in the first round and that looks to continue in this one.

11:00 Kenin S. (Usa) - Baptiste H. (Usa)
11:00 Kostyuk M. (Ukr) - Zheng S. (Chn)
11:00 Lepchenko V. (Usa) - Muchova K. (Cze)
11:00 Li A. (Usa) - Svitolina E. (Ukr)
11:00 Martincova T. (Cze) - Pegula J. (Usa)
11:00 Sharma A. (Aus) - Jabeur O. (Tun)
12:00 Barty A. (Aus) - Linette M. (Pol)
12:30 Alexandrova E. (Rus) - Krejcikova B. (Cze)
12:30 Gracheva V. (Rus) - Giorgi C. (Ita)
13:00 Sakkari M. (Gre) - Paolini J. (Ita)
13:30 Pliskova Ka. (Cze) - Stephens S. (Usa)
14:30 Diyas Z. (Kaz) - Mertens E. (Bel)
14:30 Gauff C. (Usa) - Wang Q. (Chn)
15:00 Ferro F. (Fra) - Brady J. (Usa)
16:30 Kontaveit A. (Est) - Mladenovic K. (Fra)
16:30 Peterson R. (Swe) - Swiatek I. (Pol)

A 14 match WTA schedule of play on Wednesday will kick off at 11:00 CET with several interesting matches. Kasatkina and Bencic will get us underway and it promises to be a very close affair that could of the distance. Another interesting matchup will be between Kudermetova and Siniakove with both players playing great.

Not many players had a better clay season than Badosa and she will look to extend it against Kovinic. Victoria Azarenka will also play today and she will take on the teen sensation Tauson which is a very tough matchup especially on clay. Serena Williams will step out at 16:00 CET and take on Buzarnescu. Rybakina will take on Hibino while Pavlyuchenkova will play Tomljanovic.

Aryna Sabalenka will play the final match of the WTA schedule at 16:30 against her compatriot Sasnovich. The Belarussian severely lacks a deep Grand Slam run and this year is a great opportunity for that.

11:00 Cirstea S. (Rou) - Trevisan M. (Ita)
11:00 Kasatkina D. (Rus) - Bencic B. (Sui)
11:00 Siniakova K. (Cze) - Kudermetova V. (Rus)
11:00 Zidansek T. (Slo) - Brengle M. (Usa)
12:00 Tan H. (Fra) - Vondrousova M. (Cze)
13:00 Badosa G. P. (Esp) - Kovinic D. (Mne)
13:00 Collins D. R. (Usa) - Kalinina A. (Ukr)
13:00 Hercog P. (Slo) - Garcia C. (Fra)
14:30 Azarenka V. (Blr) - Tauson C. (Den)
14:30 Fernandez L. A. (Can) - Keys M. (Usa)
16:00 Williams S. (Usa) - Buzarnescu M. (Rou)
16:30 Pavlyuchenkova A. (Rus) - Tomljanovic A. (Aus)
16:30 Rybakina E. (Kaz) - Hibino N. (Jpn)
16:30 Sasnovich A. (Blr) Sabalenka A. (Blr)

The Tuesday WTA Roland Garros Schedule will start at 11:00 CET with several interesting matches like Putintseva vs Jabeur and Sakkari vs Zavatska. 2021 Australian Open finalist will take on Sevastova at 11:00 as well. Elina Svitolina will kick off her campaign today as well taking on Babel.

Ashleigh Barty will play her first French Open match as well which will be her first since winning the event in 2019. She will take on the ever tricky Pera. Venus Williams will have a tough task against Ekaterina Alexandrova while Coco Gauff will take on Aleksandra Krunic.

Karolina Pliskova will also play today taking on Donna Vekic while everyone can't wait to see Carla Saurez Navarro make her comeback on the court. She will play against Sloane Stephens.

11:00 Bara Irina M. (Rou) - Sharma A. (Aus)
11:00 Li A. (Usa) - Gasparyan M. (Rus)
11:00 Liang E. S. (Tpe) - Ferro F. (Fra)
11:00 Paolini J. (Ita) - Voegele S. (Sui)
11:00 Putintseva Y. (Kaz) - Jabeur O. (Tun)
11:00 Sakkari M. (Gre) - Zavatska K. (Ukr)
11:00 Sevastova A. (Lat) - Brady J. (Usa)
12:00 Babel O. (Fra) - Svitolina E. (Ukr)
12:30 Krejcikova B. (Cze) - Pliskova Kr. (Cze)
13:00 Kontaveit A. (Est) - Golubic V. (Sui)
13:00 Schmiedlova A. K. (Svk) - Mladenovic K. (Fra)
13:30 Barty A. (Aus) - Pera B. (Usa)
14:30 Alexandrova E. (Rus) - Williams V. (Usa)
14:30 Wang Q. (Chn) - Hsieh S-W. (Tpe)
15:00 Lepchenko V. (Usa) - Zhang S. (Chn)
15:00 Linette M. (Pol) - Paquet C. (Fra)
16:30 Gauff C. (Usa) - Krunic A. (Srb)
16:30 Petkovic A. (Ger) - Muchova K. (Cze)
16:30 Pliskova Ka. (Cze) - Vekic D. (Cro)
16:30 Suarez Navarro C. (Esp) - Stephens S. (Usa)

The Monday WTA schedule at the 2021 Roland-Garros will kick off at 11:00 CET as defending champion Iga Swiatek takes on her best friend on tour Juvan Kaja. Bianca Andreescu will also play today but her fitness is a big question mark in this one so it will be interesting to see how she handles the workload.

At 14:30 we will have a very polarizing matchup between Kenin and Ostapenko. The 2017 winner and the 2020 finalist should make for a great match. Belinda Bencic will face tough opposition in 2020 semifinalist Podoroska while Muguruza will test her level out against Kostyuk. Jessica Pegula will wrap up the day session with a match against Zhu.

The 2021 Roland-Garros will be the first one to feature dedicated nighttime matches and the first of such will be Serena Williams vs Irina Begu. It will start at 21:00 and it will be a very interesting match as Serena never arrived in Paris with worse clay results than this year.

11:00 Bertens K. (Ned) - Hercog P. (Slo)
11:00 Brengle M. (Usa) - Osorio Serrano M. C. (Col)
11:00 Cornet A. (Fra) - Tan H. (Fra)
11:00 Juvan K. (Slo) - Swiatek I. (Pol)
11:00 Kanepi K. (Est) - Vondrousova M. (Cze)
11:00 Peterson R. (Swe) - Rogers S. (Usa)
12:30 Watson H. (Gbr) - Diyas Z. (Kaz)
13:00 Andreescu B. V. (Can) - Zidansek T. (Slo)
13:00 Baptiste H. (Usa) - Blinkova A. (Rus)
13:00 Sanders S. (Aus) - Mertens E. (Bel)
13:00 Siegemund L. (Ger) - Garcia C. (Fra)
14:30 Kenin S. (Usa) - Ostapenko J. (Lat)
14:30 Konta J. (Gbr) - Cirstea S. (Rou)
14:30 Podoroska N. (Arg) - Bencic B. (Sui)
14:30 Van Uytvanck A. (Bel) - Trevisan M. (Ita)
15:00 Kasatkina D. (Rus) - Doi M. (Jpn)
16:00 Martincova T. (Cze) - Jorovic I. (Srb)
16:30 Arruabarrena L. (Esp) - Gracheva V. (Rus)
16:30 Giorgi C. (Ita) - Martic P. (Cro)
16:30 Muguruza G. (Esp) - Kostyuk M. (Ukr)
16:30 Rus A. (Ned) - Buzarnescu M. (Rou)
16:30 Zheng S. (Chn) - Sorribes Tormo S. (Esp)
16:30 Zhu L. (Chn) - Pegula J. (Usa)
21:00 Williams S. (Usa) - Begu I. (Rou)

Play will start on Sunday, May 30th with 20 WTA matches on the programme. As always it will start at 11:00 CET with a very interesting affair between Padosa and Davis. Both players love to play and clay and should get us underway in a great manner. At the same time, we will see Kerber take on Kalinina while Tomljanovic will play Kozlova.

Naomi Osaka will also have an early start today as she too will play at 11:00 CET taking on Patricia Maria Tig. 2020 semifinalist Petra Kvitova will also play tomorrow taking on Greet Minnen while Azarenka will have a tough test against Kuznetsova. Amanda Anisimova will take on Kudermetova at 16:30.

The day will end with a couple of youngsters squaring off as Fernandez will play Potapova while Tauson will play Gorgodze. Madison Keys will also take to the dirt to face off against native Dodin. Check out the full schedule of play below.

11:00 Badosa G. P. (Esp) - Davis L. (Usa)
11:00 Burel C. (Fra) - Kovinic D. (Mne)
11:00 Cocciaretto E. (Ita) - Bogdan A. (Rou)
11:00 Collins D. R. (Usa) - Wang Xiy. (Chn)
11:00 Kalinina A. (Ukr) - Kerber A. (Ger)
11:00 Kozlova Kat. (Ukr) - Tomljanovic A. (Aus)
11:00 Tig P. M. (Rou) - Osaka N. (Jpn)
12:30 Pavlyuchenkova A. (Rus) - McHale C. (Usa)
12:30 Rybakina E. (Kaz) - Jacquemot E. (Fra)
13:00 Minnen G. (Bel) - Kvitova P. (Cze)
14:30 Azarenka V. (Blr) - Kuznetsova S. (Rus)
14:30 Hibino N. (Jpn) - Stojanovic N. (Srb)
14:30 Konjuh A. (Cro) - Sabalenka A. (Blr)
15:00 Tauson C. (Den) - Gorgodze E. (Geo)
15:00 Vesnina E. (Rus) - Govortsova O. (Blr)
16:30 Anisimova A. (Usa) - Kudermetova V. (Rus)
16:30 Bouzkova M. (Cze) - Siniakova K. (Cze)
16:30 Dodin O. (Fra) - Keys M. (Usa)
16:30 Fernandez L. A. (Can) Potapova A. (Rus)
16:30 Parry D. (Fra) - Sasnovich A. (Blr)