{"id":74009,"date":"2026-05-26T05:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/french-open-2026-sabalenka-gauff-and-medvedev-in-action-on-sweltering-day-three-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:02:54","slug":"french-open-2026-sabalenka-gauff-and-medvedev-in-action-on-sweltering-day-three-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/french-open-2026-sabalenka-gauff-and-medvedev-in-action-on-sweltering-day-three-live\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open 2026: Sabalenka, Gauff and Medvedev in action on sweltering day three \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Updates from the third day\u2019s play at Roland Garros<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/25\/french-open-heat-wave-hot-temperature-tennis\">Players tackle heat in test of endurance<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:daniel.harris@theguardian.com\">Mail Daniel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Five games in a row for Walton,<\/strong> who takes the first set off Medvedev 6-2 in just half an hour. I wonder if the no 6 seed is following a kind of Jos\u00e9 Mourinho arc, where he over-indexes on the confrontational stuff that helped make him brilliant to the exclusion of the other stuff that was equally important, losing the run of himself in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elsewhere, Alexei Popyrin leads Zachary Svajda 6-3;<\/strong> Donna Vekic is up 5-2 on Alice Tubello; Tallon Griekspoor and Matteo Arnaldi are level at 3-3; with Marin Cilic and Moise Kouame also level, at 2-2. Or, put another way, or better matchups come later in the day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/may\/26\/french-open-2026-sabalenka-gauff-and-medvedev-in-action-on-sweltering-day-three-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the third day\u2019s play at Roland Garros Players tackle heat in test of endurance | Mail Daniel Five games in a row for Walton, who takes the first set off Medvedev 6-2 in just half an hour. I wonder if the no 6 seed is following a kind of Jos\u00e9 Mourinho arc, where &#8230; <a title=\"French Open 2026: Sabalenka, Gauff and Medvedev in action on sweltering day three \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/french-open-2026-sabalenka-gauff-and-medvedev-in-action-on-sweltering-day-three-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about French Open 2026: Sabalenka, Gauff and Medvedev in action on sweltering day three \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}