Follow The Athletic’s French Open coverageWelcome to the French Open briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament.On Day 7, the women’s draw got in on the chaos, there were just too many sets and the tournament’s breakout star had a good soccer result.Has the women’s draw opened up now?Speaking in a news conference Saturday after knocking out No. 9 seed Victoria Mboko, 2025 Australian Open Madison Keys had some words for the players left in the wide-open men’s draw.“I think we’ve seen in the men’s scores today that they’re all really worried about who is going to be in the finals. So we’ve seen lots of men’s tennis today,” she said.“All jokes aside, I do think we’re kind of seeing the men deal with it kind of for the first time in a really long time where it feels completely wide open. Like I said, they should really get their heads around it.”Keys isn’t wrong — but Saturday at Roland Garros, the women’s draw finally opened up a little bit, too. Defending champion Coco Gauff fell to Austria’s Anastasia Potapova, No. 6 seed Amanda Anisimova went out to Diane Parry of France and Keys herself took down Mboko. All of a sudden, seven top-10 seeds became four — and Iga Świątek was left as the only player in the draw to have lifted a French Open title.The composition of the draw may leaven just how open it is. In world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka’s half, she and four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka are the only top-20 seeds remaining, and they meet in the fourth round. Osaka won a tight, tense, intriguing three-set match against No. 17 seed Iva Jović, 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-4, before Sabalenka dispatched Daria Kasatkina 6-0, 7-5.In the bottom half, Świątek meets in-form No. 15 seed Marta Kostyuk, while Elina Svitolina (7) and Belinda Bencic (11) clash. Mirra Andreeva (8) faces the unseeded Jil Teichmann. There won’t be quite so much worry as the men’s draw about who is going to be in the finals, but there will be bucketloads of quality women’s tennis.— James HansenHow many sets is too many sets?The player most associated with this French Open years from now may well be João Fonseca.Because the 19-year-old Brazilian was already such a promising young figure in men’s tennis, and because Novak Djokovic is an all-time great, Fonseca’s five-set win Friday could take on heavy meaning in the years to come, à la Roger Federer’s upset of Pete Sampras at Wimbledon in 2001.If that’s the case, what to make of Juan Manuel Cerúndolo? The world No. 56 from Argentina arguably deserves a spot in the history books (or at least deserves to be the answer to a trivia question) for backing up his upset of world No. 1 Jannik Sinner on Thursday with a marathon win of his own..Cerundolo beat Martin Landaluce 6-4, 6-7(7), 7-6(4), 6-7(4), 7-6(8) Saturday in a whopping five hours and 58 minutes all the way over on Court 7, to log the third-longest match at Roland Garros since 1996.The other two longest matches were all played before Roland Garros adopted the fifth-set tiebreak.Corentin Moutet and Lorenzo Giustino’s six-hour-and-five-minute match in 2020 occupies the second spot, and Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clement’s six-hour-and-33-minute epic in the 2004 French Open holds the record.Cerúndolo may not have played the most taxing tennis match of his life against a heat-weakened Sinner Thursday, but those types of matches often leave players with an emotional hangover.