Roland-Garros: Women's tennis still absent from night sessions

Still not. The schedule for Saturday's event has just been released, and the evening session, known as the "night session" and touted as the most prestigious event of the day, will once again feature the men's spotlight with a third-round match between Novak Djokovic and world number 153 Filip Misolic. Since the start of Roland-Garros on Sunday, May 27, no women's match has been featured on the Porte d'Auteuil evening schedule. This has been happening year after year, with no solutions being found.

On Tuesday, Ons Jabeur lit the first fuse of the fortnight: "It's sad to see this again today. It's regrettable for women's sport in general. I don't think the people making this decision have daughters, because I don't think they want to treat their daughters this way," said the former Wimbledon finalist, after her early elimination in the first round. A dig aimed at Gilles Moretton, the president of the French Tennis Federation. A little earlier, the latter had assured that this gendered programming was dictated by what would be "better for the spectators."

Ons Jabeur responded to this specific sentence, giving him the