Carlos Alcaraz vs Ben Shelton LIVE: French Open latest score and updates after Iga Swiatek battles through

Alcaraz leads the second set again after a battling hold.

Shelton unfurls a couple of monstrous forehands to recover from 0-15 and win four straight points.

A couple of relatively straightforward holds apiece, and they remain on serve at the change of ends.

Shelton earns an immediate look at a break in the opening game of the second set, but Alcaraz snuffs out the break point with some serve and volley tactics, and rushes through to hold.

Finally! A quite magnificent set of tennis comes to a conclusion with both men all but out on their feet and the ball at the bottom of the net on Ben Shelton’s side.

And to think we could yet have four more to come. Shelton will be disappointed not to have closed it out in that tie break but he’s matching Carlos Alcaraz’s level so far.

An outstanding backhand from deep forces Carlos Alcaraz into an incredibly difficult volley, making that some shot as he drops the face down in the nick of time to kill it dead on the other side of the net.

Set point as the Spaniard gets the better of an elongated baseline exchange. But Shelton is equal to it, as he has been throughout. This has been some tennis.

A loquacious forehand mutters its way over the net as Ben Shelton sets up two set points. Carlos Alcaraz shuts him down with a booming serve…and that backhand is into the net! More to come – and no-one on Philippe-Chatrier is complaining.

What a point! Remarkable stuff from both men, each sliding and skidding and sprawling all over the court. Ben Shelton somehow retrieves one from about five yards behind him with go-go-gadget arms and nearly draws an error, Alcaraz’s loft landing on the line with a supine Shelton watching anxiously from the floor. Back on serve!

Impressive stuff from Ben Shelton, getting a mini-break and then consolidating it with a couple of smashing overheads. Sweet stuff, neat feet as he retreats and then a clean clap of the racquet through the back of the ball.

A lovely pick-up from Carlos Alcaraz helps take us, as seemed inevitable, to a first set tie break.