I.Swiatek, who has won Roland Garros four times in the past, did not resist Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (WTA-15) in the round of 16, losing 5:7, 1:6.
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The 23-year-old tennis player from Kyiv defeated her titled opponent for the first time in four attempts, reaching the Grand Slam quarterfinals for only the second time in her career. The first time she managed this was two years ago in Melbourne.
M.Kostyuk is showing simply fantastic form this clay season – she has won all 16 matches played and became only the fifth tennis player this century to win the first 16 matches on clay in a season.
This year, playing against top ten representatives, the Ukrainian has won 6 out of 9 times. In the quarterfinals, she will face compatriot Elina Svitolina (WTA-7) or Swiss Belinda Bencic (WTA-11).
Not a smaller sensation was recorded on the Roland Garros courts on Saturday, when last year’s champion Coco Gauff’s title defense ended.
The 22-year-old American lost 6:4, 6:7(4), 4:6 to Austria’s Anastasia Potapova (WTA-30), who reached the Grand Slam round of 16 for only the second time in her career.
The US tennis star, who will lose as many as 1870 WTA ranking points, will definitely drop to sixth place, which in the final version could be even lower.
C.Gauff and I.Swiatek were the only remaining players in the tournament who had been crowned Roland Garros champions. Now the best chances to triumph belong to the world number one Aryna Sabalenka.
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