“I haven’t really seen Serena that often. Which I don’t know if I’m sad or happy, because then I don’t have to like be all freaked out.”
Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka on her
desire to play the world’s top player.
 
 “There are dangerous questions. I mean, people who know psychology and throw negative stuff at you. Now I say, Okay, s**t question, no answer. Next question, please.”
France’s Stephane Robert on
handling the media
 
 “They emailed me and asked me if I wanted to go. I said, That’s a no-brainer; absolutely.”
America’s Shelby Rogers on being invited to the White House to meet President Obama.
 
‘It’s the only time when being old is okay.”
 Ivo Karlovic, 37, defeated Jordan Thompson 12-10 in the final set to become the oldest man to make the third round since Jimmy Connors in 1991.

“Do you want the truth? I need to talk to my agent, and then I’ll come back and tell you what he’s told me to say.”
France’s Benoit Paire preferring to get advice on who his next coach may be.

“They e-mailed me and asked me if I wanted to go. I said, That’s a no-brainer; absolutely.”
America’s Shelby Rogers on being invited to the White House to meet President Obama.

“I have waited for this for such a long time. This is why I play tennis.”
 Tearful Mathias Bourgue after losing in five sets to Andy Murray.

Sidelights
Bourgue’s choc absorber
Bourgue was seen nibbling a Twix chocolate bar in his match against Murray – although he would have preferred a Mars.
“I felt I wanted to have some sugar, because I was tired. I just asked for it. Gilles Simon told me if you feel tired, take one Coke and one Mars bar, so that’s what I wanted to do.”
What’s love got to do with it?
Richard Gasquet was asked if he has a girlfriend and, if not, was he on the lookout for one.
“I was prepared for a lot of things, but not for that question. But none of the above,” said the Frenchman.

Code calling
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni was knocked out by Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka in straight sets in a match were she received a code violation for ‘coaching’. She argued that her team were was just encouraging her, not coaching. “There has to be some logic,” said the world number 52 who first played at Roland Garros in 1999.

Boys zone
Richard Gasquet and Bjorn Fratangelo were both former junior champions at Roland Garros and met for the first time on the main tour on Wednesday. Gasquet was junior champion in 2002; Fratangelo in 2011.

Spies like us
Russia’s Elena Vesnina jokingly eavesdropped on Shelby Rogers’ press conference on Monday looking for tips ahead of their second round clash Wednesday. According to @WTA_Insider, Vesnina jokingly said: “Don’t mind me”. It didn’t matter as Rogers won.

Sunday to Wednesday
The first round of the French Open started on Sunday but highly-rated German teenager Alexander Zverev only completed his opening tie on Wednesday afternoon. Suspended due to darkness on Tuesday, Zverev came back to defeat Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (8/6), 7-5.