By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday October 4, 2020

Day 8 is in the books at Roland Garros and Tennis Now is here to break down some of the relevant numbers.



58 The number of drop shots hit by France’s Hugo Gaston in his five set battle with Dominic Thiem on Sunday. The Frenchman has amazing touch, and the Austrian had to spend all kinds of energy tracking down balls. Thiem took the opening two sets against the world No.239 wild card, but dropped the next two. He got his energy back in the nick of time and took the final three games to book a quarterfinal match with Diego Schwartzman.

97-2 Rafael Nadal inches closer to the century mark at Roland Garros with his 6-1 6-1 6-2 win over Sebastian Korda on Day 8.

23 Number of games Nadal has dropped through four rounds. He’ll face Jannik Sinner next.

30 Number of winners hit by Poland’s Iga Swiatek on in her round of 16 victory over Simona Halep on Sunday. The 19-year-old, the youngest player remaining in the draw, committed just 20 unforced errors and won eight of nine points at the net to knock off the top seed.

27 Number of consecutive wins that Rafael Nadal has recorded in Paris after his straight-sets win over Korda on Sunday.

2005 By defeating Alexander Zverev in the round of 16, Italy’s Jannik Sinner becomes the first male player to reach the quarterfinals on his Roland Garros debut since the King of Clay himself. Nadal did that in 2005, the year he won his first of 12 Roland Garros titles.

4 Number of players still alive across the singles draws that had never won a main draw match at a major before—Nadia Podoroska, Martina Trevisan and Daniel Altmaier.

2006 Sinner, who defeated Zverev in four sets for his first top 10 win at a major on Sunday, is the youngest men’s singles quarterfinalist since Novak Djokovic reached the last eight in Paris in 2006.

9 For the ninth year in a row, Roland Garros has an unseeded quarterfinalist on the women’s side. Actually at least four—Podoroska, Trevisan, Swiatek and Siegemund or Badosa, and potential seven (Collins, who plays Jabeur, Ferro, who plays Kenin and Zhang, who plays Kvitova).

45 Minutes that it took Halep to dispose of Iga Swiatek in the round of 16 last year at Roland Garros. This year, Swiatek needed just 68 to take her revenge.

255 Nadia Podoroska’s ranking at the start of 2020. The Rosario, Argentina native will crack the Top 100 as a result of her quarterfinal in Paris.