Sabalenka powers past Osaka in first women’s night match at French Open since 2023

World No 1 wins 7-5, 6-3 to reach quarter-finals‘Really important they put match as night session’Three years after the Roland Garros organisers last declared a women’s match worthy of being called the best of the day in Paris, the total collapse of one half of the men’s draw and a fourth round between two of the three most successful active women’s players not named Williams finally allowed women to return to centre stage.Finally ushered into the marquee night matc