Paris: The women got their matches done before rain arrived at Roland Garros, leaving the men’s quarter-finals suspended in progress.

That might very well have been a relief to 10-time champion Rafael Nadal, who was not at his best and dropped a French Open set for the first time since 2015.

Nadal lost the opener 6-4 against 11th-seeded Diego Schwartzman but began to play better after a rain delay of just under an hour.

Nadal was serving for the second set at 5-3, 30-15, when another shower came and action was halted for the day.

In the other men’s quarter-final, number three Marin Cilic and number five Juan Martin del Potro were at 5-all in a first-set tie breaker when the match-up of past US Open champions was stopped.