Daily Tennis Tips – Tuesday 3rd June

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Tuesday June 3, 2025!

World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka and eighth seed Qinwen Zheng resume an increasingly fascinating rivalry in the French Open quarter-finals.

Sabalenka is 6-1 against Zheng, including dominant wins in the Australian Open final in 2024 and the 2023-24 US Open quarters, plus the Miami Masters earlier this year. But crucially, Zheng earned a Rome Masters quarter-final boilover 6-4 6-3 in April to break the bogey.

Three-time slam winner Sabalenka’s best French Open result was a semi-final appearance in 2023.

The Madrid Masters champ has been in blistering form over the past week, beating Kamilla Rakhimova (6-1 6-0), Jil Teichmann (6-3 6-1), Olga Danilovic (6-2 6-3) and 16th seed Amanda Anisimova (7-5 6-3) with relative ease.

The Olympic champion at Roland Garros last year, Zheng has made the French Open quarters for the first time by eliminating 2021 runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Emiliana Arango and Victoria Mboko in straight sets, and 19th seed Liudmila Samsonova 7-6 1-6 6-3.

The result in Rome and her Olympic triumph are notable factors in Zheng’s favour, but Sabalenka has looked a class above in Paris so far and won’t be complacent heading into this showdown.

Four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek squares off against 13th seed Elina Svitolina for a spot in the 2025 semi-finals.

Swiatek leads this head-to-head 3-1, winning their only clay-court clash at the 2021 Rome Masters and picking up victories at the 2024 Dubai Championships and the Miami Masters earlier this year – all in straight sets. Svitolina’s sole win was a 2023 Wimbledon quarter-final upset in three.

After an indifferent start to 2025 continued on the clay swing – and saw her slump to fifth in the rankings – Swiatek has found form on the Roland Garros courts, thrashing Rebecca Sramkova, Emma Raducanu and Jaqueline Cristian in straight sets.

The defending champ then saw off archrival Elena Rybakina 1-6 6-3 7-5 in a torrid quarter-final comeback.

Svitolina is into her fifth French Open quarter-final (and vying for a maiden semi) after charting a similar path: straight-sets wins over Zeynep Sonmez, Anna Bondar and Bernarda Pera, and a 4-6 7-6 6-1 victory against fourth seed and 2024 runner-up Jasmine Paolini.

Swiatek’s 25-match winning streak at Roland Garros is a big psychological edge, but it’s also under threat if $3.70 underdog Svitolina can reproduce the performance that took down Paolini.

Eighth seed Lorenzo Musetti has parlayed a career-best run of form into his first French Open quarter-final appearance, where he takes on 15th seed Frances Tiafoe – another first-time quarter-finalist at Roland Garros.

Tiafoe has a 5-4 edge in the rivalry, most recently at the 2024 Cincinnati Masters in straight sets. But Musetti took out the only tour-level encounter on clay – coming from a set down at the 2023 Rome Masters.

Reaching his maiden WTA 1000 final at the Monte-Carlo Masters (a loss to Carlos Alcaraz), Musetti made the semis in Madrid and Rome.

Over the past week he’s beaten Yannik Hanfmann and Daniel Elahi Galan in straight sets, and Mariano Navone and 10th seed Holger Rune in four.

A handy clay-courter himself – reaching the last three Houston Open finals – Tiafoe had a fairly underwhelming French Open build-up but is yet to drop a set in this campaign, defeating Roman Safiullin, Pablo Carreno Busta, Sebastian Korda and giant-killing Daniel Altmaier.

Musetti is a hot $1.20 favourite to progress here and his confidence will be sky-high after dousing Rune. But Tiafoe’s form over the past week can’t be ignored and this has the makings of a lengthy thriller.

Defending champion and second seed Carlos Alcaraz confronts a stiff quarter-final test at the French Open in the shape of 12th seed Tommy Paul.

Alcaraz leads the head-to-head 4-2, including quarter-final victories at Wimbledon and the Roland Garros-hosted Olympics in 2024. Paul’s wins were at the 2022-23 Canadian Masters.

Spanish superstar Alcaraz is 18-1 on this clay swing, winning the Monte-Carlo and Rome Masters, and making the Barcelona Open final.

He hasn’t had it all his own way in Paris, though, taken to four sets by Fabian Marozsan, Damir Dzumhur and 13th seed Ben Shelton in his last three matches.

After an impressive semi-final run in Rome, Paul is into the French Open quarters for the first time via five-set wins over Marton Fucsovics and 24th seed Karen Khachanov, and a 6-3 6-3 6-3 demolition of 25th seed Alexei Popyrin.

Paul has routinely challenged $1.08 favourite Alcaraz in the past and should do so again here, but expect the champ to prevail.