Numbers behind week one at RG2022

Longest matches 

Borna Gojo’s first-round victory over Allessandro Giannessi lasted four hours and 58 minutes.

Gojo’s 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-7(4), 7-6(4), 6-4 comeback triumph stands as the longest match of week one. 

On the women’s side Jil Teichmann and Victoria Azarenka take the honours.

The Swiss ousted the two-time major champion in three hours and 18 minutes on Court Simonne-Mathieu in third-round action on Friday, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(5). 

Shortest matches

There is a three-way tie for the shortest completed match on the women’s side; oddly, each contest finished with the same scoreline.

Daria Kasatkina defeated sailed past world No. 176 Rebecca Sramkova, 6-2, 6-0 in 54 minutes in round one; Paula Badosa trampled Fiona Ferro, 6-2, 6-0 in round one on Court Philippe-Chatrier, and Iga Swiatek routed Lesia Tsurenko 6-2, 6-0, also on Chatrier. 

The shortest match on the men’s side comes in at one hour 29 minutes. Hubert Hurkacz defeated Italy’s Marco Cecchinato, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in 1:29 in second-round action on Court 14, while Marin Cilic’s 6-0, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Attila Balazs – also on Court 14 – lasted 89 minutes as well. 

Seeded casualties aplenty on the women's side

For only the second time in the Open Era, only one of the top-10 women's seeds are left in the last 16 of a Grand Slam, and the first time in Roland-Garros history.

The other occasion was at Wimbledon in 2018 when Karolina Pliskova was the only top 10 seed left.

Here in Paris, Iga Swiatek is the lone remaining top-10 seed. The Pole, who is riding a 31-match winning streak, will look to continue her run against China's Zheng Qinwen in the round of 16.

Fastest serves

Reilly Opelka's 225 kmph serve during his first-round loss to Filip Krajinovic remains the fastest recorded serve of week one, while Jule Niemeier cracked a 121.8 kmph serve in round one to lead all women in week one.

Veronika Kudermetova is the ace leader on the women's side with 20 through three rounds, while John Isner's 71 aces leads all men.

From out of nowhere

The lowest-ranked player still remaining in the singles draw is a complete surprise - even to himself.

Spain's Bernabe Zapata Miralles, ranked 131, had never won a match at Roland-Garros prior to this year.

Zapata Miralles is also the only qualifier remaining in either singles draw in Paris. The 25-year-old entered this year's tournament with one Grand Slam main draw appearance to his name, and just nine tour-level wins in his career.

He is the first Spanish man to ever come through qualifying to reach the second week at Roland-Garros, and he will bid to become the lowest-ranked Grand Slam men’s quarter-finalist since No.142 Juan Martin Del Potro at the 2016 US Open.

He will also attempt to become the lowest-ranked Roland Garros men’s quarter-finalist since world No.140 Marcelo Filippini in 1999 when he faces third-seeded Alexander Zverev on Sunday.

Unbreakable Hubi

Only one singles player has reached the round of 16 without dropping serve. That would be Poland's Hubert Hurkacz. The No.12 seed has held serve in all 43 of his service games through three rounds.

Hurkacz didn't even face a break point until the third round. On Saturday he defeated David Goffin, 7-5, 6-2, 6-2, to reach the round of 16 at Roland-Garros for the first time.

Fewest games dropped

While many fans were focusing on Iga Swiatek and her one-woman bagel factory, Daria Kasatkina was sneaking through week one like a thief in the night.

Kasatkina has dropped just 10 games en route to her first last-16 appearance at a Grand Slam since Wimbledon 2018.

For the record, Swiatek and Kasatkina have each dished two bagels through three matches.

Never forget the first

A total of 13 players have reached the second week at Roland-Garros for the first time.

On the men's side Bernabe Zapata Miralles, Casper Ruud, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Carlos Alcaraz, Holger Rune and Hubert Hurkacz have progressed.

On the women's side, Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Leylah Fernandez, Jil Teichmann, Jessica Pegula, Veronika Kudermetova, Camila Giorgi and Zheng Qinwen have broken through.

Among the 13, Zapata Miralles, Zheng, Kudermetova and Teichmann are into the round of 16 at a Slam for the first time.