“The most disappointing part is just not playing well”, Williams said.
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The American actually started well enough, taking a 2-0 lead, before Bacsinszky began to add more variety to her strokes and took complete control. She managed to produce only six winners in all, while committing 24 unforced errors.
World number one Serena Williams looked impressive as she saw off 18th seed Svitolina in just 62 minutes, making it 18 sets in a row for the American at Roland Garros.
Bacsinszky, who went to the semi-finals in 2015, will face unseeded Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens for a place in the last-four.
Defending champion Serena Williams fired out a warning shot to her French Open competitors, swatting aside Elina Svitolina in straight sets 6-1, 6-1 here on Wednesday.
Having won a match that was originally scheduled for Monday, begun on Tuesday and completed on Wednesday, the 29-year-old Serb will have to play four days in succession if he is to reach Sunday’s title showdown.
With only two hours of play possible over the previous two days as Parisians were hit by monsoon-like showers, the women in top seed Serena Williams’s half of the draw had also been left bogged down in the fourth round for 48 hours.
While Wednesday was cloudy and chilly, with the temperature barely breaking 60 degrees (16 degrees Celsius), at least the drizzle stayed away, allowing for progress in the brackets.
Serena will take on another unexpected quarter-finalist in the shape of Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, who beat Spanish 12th seed Carla Suarez Navarro.
After conceding the opening set in damp conditions on Tuesday, Serbian Djokovic played tighter and he had won the second set and was 4-1 ahead in the third when rain cut short his victory charge on day 10 of the championships.
Djokovic will be back in action on Thursday to contest his 28th successive major quarter-final against Czech seventh seed Tomas Berdych, a 6-3 7-5 6-3 victor over 2013 runner-up David Ferrer.
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In the quarterfinals Thursday, Djokovic will play No. 7 Tomas Berdych, while No. 12 David Goffin meets No. 13 Dominic Thiem.
