Ricky Dimon
By the end of play on Monday, the quarterfinal lineup at the French Open will be set. On the men’s side, Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic are among the favorites to advance. In the women’s bracket, Coco Gauff and Mirra Andreeva remain on a collision course for the semifinals. Let’s take a look at my French Open best bets on the Day 9 schedule. I’m on an 8-4 run over the past 3 days, going 2-1 on each of those occasions, so let’s keep building profit through the second week of the Parisian Grand Slam!
French Open Parlay: Mirra Andreeva ML over Daria Kasatkina and Coco Gauff ML over Ekaterina Alexandrova (-132)
Gauff and Andreeva were 2 of my top 3 picks to win the Roland Garros title before the event started and there is no reason to get off the bandwagon at this point. Both women have been in daunting form so far at Roland Garros. Andreeva hasn’t played a single set more competitive than 6-4 in any of her 6 sets through 3 rounds. Gauff also hasn’t lost a set and just 2 sets have been more competitive than 6-2. As for the opponents, Daria Kasatkina was on a 3-match losing streak heading into this fortnight. The Gauff vs Alexandrova head-to-head series stands at 3-1 in the American’s favor and she has won their last 2 meetings in straight sets.
French Open prediction: Hailey Baptiste +4.5 games over Madison Keys (+106)
Madison Keys is a relatively 1-dimensional ball basher. Take nothing away from here; what she does, she does very well – such as when she won the Australian Open to begin this season. However, when things go wrong she doesn’t really have a ‘Plan B.’ Hailey Baptiste, on the other hand, showcases wonderful variety in her game. That can be especially useful on clay, a surface that rewards spins, slices and general offspeed junk-balling. On a faster surface, Keys might overpower her fellow American. On the terre battue of Paris, that shouldn’t happen.
At 23 years old, Baptiste has already won 96 matches on clay in her career (all since the start of the 2017 campaign). At 30 years old, Keys has won 97 matches on clay dating back to the start of 2009. It should also be noted that Keys is coming off a 3-set struggle with Sofia Kenin in which the veteran saved a match point. Meanwhile, Baptiste has won 6 consecutive sets heading into this one. Even an outright upset for the underdog is well within reason.
French Open best bet: Tallon Griekspoor +6.5 games over Alexander Zverev (-122)
The head-to-head series stands at 7-2 in Alexander Zverev’s favor, but that’s not a terrible record when you consider that Griekspoor is always a sizable underdog and that almost all of their matches have been extremely competitive. Only once in their last 5 meetings has the German won in straight sets. They also faced each other last year at the French Open and Griekspoor led 4-1 in the 5th set before Zverev survived 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(10-3).
Their first 2 encounters in 2025 could hardly have been closer; Griekspoor scored a 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(4) victory in Indian Wells before Zverev won another 3-setter 6-7(6), 7-6(3), 6-4 in Munich. With Griekspoor in awesome form and Zverev having struggled since finishing runner-up at the Australian Open final, there is no reason to think that this will suddenly be a lopsided matchup.
