Women’s fourth-round matches will be Rogers against No. 25 Irina-Camelia Begu, No. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska against unseeded Tsvetana Pironkova, No. 4 Garbine Muguruza against No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova, and No. 6 Simona Halep against No. 21 Sam Stosur. “To win the tournament I need five more matches. that is almost 100 percent impossible”.
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Svitolina, who made it to the quarterfinals in Paris past year, had only managed to win a single set against Ivanovic in their seven previous meetings.
“At the end it was very close”. In the victory, Djokovic won 68 percent of his first serve points and 55 percent of his second serve points.
“Obviously when you play someone like Novak, you can see where the weaknesses are, so I’m going to work on that”. “The trainer was able to assure me that from what he could tell there was nothing serious”.
Also through to the last 16 was 2014 losing finalist David Ferrer, who comfortably saw off the challenge of fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-4, 7-6 (8/6), 6-1.
However, the nine-time victor of the event will play no further part at Roland Garros this year after revealing that the pain has been getting progressively worse.
The world No. 5 said he and his team tried all treatments possible, spending a lot of hours working on the injured wrist, even with an injection on it with anesthetic, “just to sleep my wrist”.
Mirza and Hingis will next take on Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova of Czech Republic. PAES, BOPANNA WIN Meanwhile, India’s Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna sailed into the men’s doubles third round with their respective partners. Sixth seeds Bopanna and Florian Mergea defeated the French pair of Gregoire Barrere and Quentin Halys 6-3 6-4 in the second round here. Nadal said that he would have probably not played the French Open if it hadn’t been the French Open.
“I think it was a very important time for me to stop because I was playing not good, I was playing far from the baseline and very slow”, Gasquet told reporters.
“I feel myself with the right motivation and the right energy to be back at Roland Garros the next couple of years”.
In the women’s last-16, top seed and defending champion Serena Williams continues her bid for a record-equalling Open era 22 Grand Slam title.
Rafael Nadal’s wrist injury and French Open withdrawal left world number one Novak Djokovic upset.
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But Rafael Nadal, who had only lost a total of nine games in his victories in the first two rounds this week, announced on Friday that he had to exit the tournament because of a left wrist injury.
