Four-time champion IGA Swiatek, winning 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 over 12th seeded Elena Rayabkina on Sunday to proceed to the quarter-finals of the French Open in Paris, survived a intimidation.
The victory in the royos Garos for the native of Poland was the 25th, Monica was tying Monica Seles for the second longest Parisian winning line in the open era.
It was easy for Swiatech, who made a total of 27 unexpected errors in the first eight matches of the match – six of them lost.
“The first set, I felt as if I was playing against Jannik Sinner,” Svetek said, said the defending champion. “I just kept fighting.”
However, Swiatech rebound, and sent Rybikina of Kazakhstan to set up a quarterfinal match against 13th seed Elina Switolina in 30 minutes. Ukrainian saved three matches points and won two hours, 24 minutes in 24 minutes, Jasmine Paolini won 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6–1.
Switolina dropped the first set and fell 5–3 in the second before turning around. He won seven of the next eight matches to change the speed and eventually proceeded in his 13th Grand Slam quarterfinals.
“It was, I think, at that time 5-4 or 5-3 when I was two match points below. Certainly, it was not normal for him, but also, it’s a pressure moment that can sometimes be for both of us,” Swyolini said about Paolini.
“Yes, I am very happy that I could save another match point on Tybreak, because the Tybreak was very close, and some points decided the entire second set.”
In another match on Sunday, China’s eighth seed Kinwen Zheng first entered the French Open quarter-finals at Ludmila Samsanova, Russia after winning 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-3 for the first time.
Zheng joined the 2011 French Open Champion Lee Na as the only Chinese players in Open Era, who returned to Samsanova in two hours, 47 minutes to reach the women’s quarter -finals.
Zheng trusted his service, out of which 10 out of five Aces were coming in the third set.
She will face the winner of the match of Belarus’s top seed Aryana Sabalenka and 16th seed Amanda Anisimova.
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