Welcome to the French Open briefing, where will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On day 13, the Court Philippe-Chatrier roof caused controversy, a strange sequence of tennis results cohered and court assignments yet again let women’s tennis down.

Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the French Open final after Lorenzo Musetti retired from their semifinal early in the fourth set. Alcaraz was leading 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-0, 2-0 when the eighth-seeded Italian had to stop playing on Court Philippe-Chatrier.