PARIS: Roland Garros organisers were facing a scheduling nightmare on Wednesday after the entire day's play was washed out with the prospect of another all-consuming deluge expected to swamp Paris on Friday, possibly forcing the women's final to be played alongside the men's on Sunday.
The decision left world number one Novak Djokovic and defending women's champion Simona Halep to play their quarter-finals on Thursday and semi-finals on Friday if they get through.With the women's final traditionally set for Saturday, third seed Halep could end up playing three days in a row.
Friday was originally set to stage both men's semi-finals for which Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer had already booked their places on Tuesday. "We don't want to move the women's final from Saturday to Sunday but some girls may be playing three days in a row," said Forget."If we have to move the finals to the following day it's something that could happen. We have done it with the men .Forget said it was possible that one of the women's matches could be moved away from the Chatrier and Lenglen courts to the 5,000-seater Simonne Mathieu arena.
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