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The 22-year-old Swiatek is not going to take anything for granted against Osaka, who showed flashes of her best form in Rome earlier this month, knocking out seeds Marta Kostyuk and Daria Kasatkina en route to the last 16.<\/p>\n

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“The matches that we played on hard court were always really intense and tough,” said the current world number one.<\/p>\n

“So I’m just glad that she came back and she’s playing more tournaments even than before the break.<\/p>\n

“Nowadays in the women’s draw you can play Grand Slam champions early in the tournament.<\/p>\n

“It is pretty tricky because you know these players are really experienced. They also achieved many great things. So they have a bigger kind of belief…<\/p>\n

“So for sure it’s not gonna be easy.”<\/p>\n

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– Sinner faces Gasquet –<\/h2>\n

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Men’s second seed Sinner will have to quieten the French crowd when he faces home favourite Richard Gasquet in the night session match.<\/p>\n

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The Australian Open champion arrived at the tournament under an injury cloud after withdrawing from Madrid and skipping Rome with a hip problem.<\/p>\n

Sinner cruised to a first-round win over Christopher Eubanks, though, and insisted he was feeling close to full fitness.<\/p>\n

“The hip is good, I’m very happy,” he said. “The general shape isn’t at 100 percent yet so we’re trying to build every day.”<\/p>\n

Wimbledon champion Alcaraz also missed out on Rome with a right arm injury, but was in fine form in his Roland Garros opener, dropping just four games against American lucky loser J.J. Wolf.<\/p>\n

He will be expected to have few problems against Dutch qualifier Jesper de Jong on Court Suzanne Lenglen.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on Wednesday, men’s sixth seed Andrey Rublev, former French Open runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas and women’s Wimbledon winner Marketa Vondrousova also target places in the last 32.<\/p>\n

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