Daily Tennis Tips – Monday 2nd June

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Monday June 2, 2025!

Second seed Coco Gauff has carved a dominant path to the French Open’s Round of 16, where she meets 20th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova.

Gauff is 3-1 against Alexandrova, most recently winning their Berlin Ladies Open clash last June.

The 2022 French Open runner-up, Gauff has breezed past Olivia Gadecki (6-2 6-2), Tereza Valentova (6-2 6-4) and Marie Bouzkova (6-1 7-6) so far – carrying on the form spike that took her to the Madrid and Rome Masters finals.

Alexandrova has had a solid clay swing – including semi-finals in Charleston and Stuttgart – and has been outstanding over the past week, disposing of Lucia Bronzetti (6-3 6-2), Elisabetta Cocciaretto (6-1 6-3) and Veronika Kudermetova (6-2 6-2) in ruthless fashion.

The 30-year-old has only made it to the fourth round of a major once previously, losing at Wimbledon in 2023, and Gauff still has another couple of gears to go to as she chases a fifth straight Roland Garros quarter-final appearance.

Flying the Australian flag for the first time at grand slam level, 17th seed Daria Kasatkina squares off against frontline contender Mirra Andreeva in the French Open’s fourth round.

Kasatkina won the pair’s only clash to date, a 6-0 4-6 6-4 result in the Ningbo Open final in October.

It had been a poor clay swing amid an underwhelming season to date for Kasatkina, but she has found her groove in Paris with wins over Katerina Siniakova (6-1 3-6 6-2), Leolia Jeanjean (6-4 6-2) and 10th seed Paula Badosa (6-1 7-5).

Sixth seed Andreeva, a semi-finalist at Roland Garros last year and already with two WTA 1000 titles to her name in 2025, has brushed aside Cristina Bucsa (6-3 6-4), Ashlyn Krueger (6-3 6-4) and 32nd seed Yulia Putintseva (6-1 6-1).

The 17-year-old is a red-hot $1.24 favourite, but Kasatkina – a semi-finalist here herself in 2022 – is more than capable of taking this to the wire.

French Open third seed and 2024 runner-up Alexander Zverev faces a tricky fourth-round assignment in the shape of world No.35 Tallon Griekspoor.

Zverev is 7-2 against Griekspoor, but the German needed five sets to win their French Open third-round clash last year. Meanwhile, Griekspoor carved out a 4-6 7-6 7-6 upset at Indian Wells earlier this season, before Zverev won another thriller, 6-7 7-6 6-3 on his way to the Munich title in April.

Zverev has moved into the last 16 at Roland Garros for the eighth straight year (he made it to the semis or beyond from 2021-24) with wins over Learner Tien (6-3 6-3 6-4), Jesper De Jong (3-6 6-1 6-2 6-3) and Flavio Cobolli (6-2 7-6 6-1).

Griekspoor has benefitted from a favourable draw to reach the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time, accounting for Marcos Giron and Gabriel Diallo in four-setters, and twice fighting back from a set down to outlast Ethan Quinn in five.

Zverev has struggled on this clay swing by his own standards, but this week has gone very much according to plan and his elite serve should be too much for the Dutchman this time around.

A rejuvenated Cameron Norrie faces a mountainous French Open fourth round task, aiming to become the first player to deny Novak Djokovic a quarter-final berth at Roland Garros since 2009.

Djokovic has won all five encounters with Norrie to date, though the Brit gave him a decent test in a 6-4 6-7 6-1 result in the Geneva Open semi-finals just over a week ago.

Former world No.8 Norrie – currently 81st – has made it to the last 16 at the French Open for the first time with an epic five-set win over 11th seed Daniil Medvedev, and dominant straight-sets wins against Federico Gomez and Jacob Fearnley.

Djokovic, who won the last of his three French Open titles in 2023, has come into the tournament somewhat under the radar.

But the legendary sixth seed has been outstanding straight of out the gate, beating Mackenzie McDonald, Corentin Moutet and Flilip Misolic without dropping a set.

It’s hard to see 38-year-old Djokovic failing to make the quarters for just the second time in his last 15 grand slam forays, but Norrie should enjoy some highlights if he can maintain his current level.