2023-06-05 19:35:11
World No. 1 and trophy holder Iga Swiatek joined world No. 6 Coco Gauff in the Roland-Garros quarter-finals on Monday, for a repeat of the 2022 final. Beatriz Haddad Maia and Ons Jabeur also qualified while, in men, Casper Ruud will face Holger Rune.
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Iga Swiatek will face Coco Gauff at Roland-Garros, for a repeat of the 2022 final. abandonment after six games of the Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko (66th).
Tsurenko gave up after about thirty minutes of play, when she was trailing 5 games to 1 by Swiatek. At the previous change of side, seeming to have difficulty breathing and feeling dizzy, the 34-year-old Ukrainian had called the doctor, who was seen taking her blood pressure.
Since the start of her fortnight in Paris, the 22-year-old Polish has not missed a single set. She has even already inflicted four 6-0s on her opponents, one in the first round, one in the second and two in the third.
Earlier in the day, Gauff brushed off Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (100th) 7-5, 6-2 in about 1h 30min Gauff brushed off Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (100th) 7-5, 6-2 on Center Court, once again windy.
“I didn’t expect it to be so windy, I hadn’t played on this court yet this year, on one side (of the court) it was difficult to hit the ball well, but I live in Florida, so that’s not really an excuse,” said the 19-year-old American with a smile, who led 5 games to 2 before seeing Schmiedlova close the gap in the first set.
This is the third year in a row that Gauff has made it to the quarter-finals on Parisian clay. A year ago, Swiatek had dominated them 6-1, 6-3 in the final.
Jabeur and Haddad qualified
Seven of the eight qualified for the quarter-finals of the women’s table are now known. The Tunisian Ons Jabeur, seventh player in the world, easily dominated the American Bernarda Pera (36th) 6-3, 6-1 on the Central court to reach the quarter-finals of Roland-Garros.
She will face in the quarterfinals the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, 14th in the world, who managed to snatch the victory on Monday, against the Spaniard Sara Sorribes, after a match of 3:51, the third longest of the Open era at Roland -Garros.
Haddad, 27, had to wait for his fourth match point to overcome Spaniard Sara Sorribes (132nd) 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 7-5 and thus reach his first quarter-final in Grand Slam.
She becomes the first Brazilian to climb to this stage of the tournament since Maria Bueno, at the very beginning of the Open era, in 1968, already in Paris.
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Rune and Ruud for a quarter vikings
On the men’s side, the Danish Holger Rune won against the Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo (23rd) 7-6 (7/3), 3-6, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (10/7) after 3:59 of a fierce fight, during which he committed many unforced errors (73 in the whole match) and seemed in physical difficulty to the point of being given a remedy by the doctor in the middle of the fourth set .
His opponent, who had never reached the round of 16 in a Grand Slam and had never even won a match at Roland-Garros before, had three break points to break away 5-3, service to follow, in the deciding set.
Then Rune served for the match himself at 5-4, but he let his opponent come back before winning the super tie break.
In a quarter of vikings, Rune the Dane will face Casper Ruud the Norwegian on Wednesday.
The latter, 4th in the world and finalist last year, fought three sets and 3:20 to overcome Chilean Nicolas Jarry (35th) 7-6 (7/3), 7-5, 7-5 and qualify for the quarter-finals at Roland-Garros.
“It was three very, very difficult sets… How long would it have been if we had gone to the fifth set?” wondered the 24-year-old Norwegian, while specifying that he was “ready if it had been necessary to play more”.
“He serves very well and fortunately this court (Philippe-Chatrier) is the one with the most distance, it allowed me to raise from far behind my baseline”, he added.
With AFP
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