He’s never lost to Bautista Agut.
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Gulbis led Goffin 3-0 in the first set on Court One when play was eventually halted but not before Goffin had complained over the conditions which he claimed were too unsafe.
She will play defending champion Serena Williams in the quarterfinals.
Last-16 matches between Venus Williams and Timea Bacsinszky, Carla Suarez Navarro and Yulia Putintseva and the clash featuring Kiki Bertens against Madison Keys were also part of the backlog.
All matches at the French Open were cancelled Monday, the first all-day shutdown in 16 years.
Second-seeded Andy Murray is now set to take on No. 9-seed Richard Gasquet on Wednesday.
Wawrinka should, at least on paper, have an easier time with unseeded Albert Ramos-Vinolas.
All matches that have already started won’t resume before 6 p.m. She has entered the French Open final in the past before and is capable of doing the same in 2016.
We don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but there’s actually a dry day forecast today – and plenty of matches to get through after Monday’s total washout was followed up by just two hours of rain-interrupted play on Tuesday.
He made a decision to take an umbrella from one of the spectators and started goofing around on the court – doing a amusing little skip – probably to lighten his own mood before officials eventually decided play should resume.
She asked for a medical timeout after the third game of the decider to receive treatment on her right forearm and hand.
(AP Photo/Alastair Grant). Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis puffs his cheeks as he walks off the court because of the persistent rain in the fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament against Belgium’s David Goffin at the Roland Garros stadium in. Bacsinszky, a formidable player who sometimes flies below the radar, reached the semifinals a year ago, losing to Serena in three sets. Stosur will take on Pironkova in the quarterfinals, where she’ll look to make her fourth career French Open semis.
Shortly before that, Halep exited with a 7-6 (0), 6-3 defeat against No. 21 Sam Stosur in a contest between two past finalists at Roland Garros.
He needed only seven minutes of action to claim that set when they resumed, taking the first two games played today.
Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open champion, will next play either Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria or Agnieszka Radwanksa of Poland.
Says Sanchez Vicario: “I think she’s the favorite to win”.
That doesn’t mean it’s a lock, though.
Williams has yet to lose a set in Paris and is looking to win the second Grand Slam in back-to-back years for the first time ever.
Nevertheless, there was another American in the quarters – Shelby Rogers, who was scheduled to play No. 4 seed Garbine Muguruza later Wednesday.
Perhaps they were listening for he kept his temper, improved markedly in the second set and was running away with the third when the players came off for the last time.
An expected fight back is temporarily put on hold as rain stops play for almost three hours.
The Serbian lost the opening set 6-3 against the 14th-seeded Spaniard on Court Philippe Chatrier when play was halted.
While few had expected Svitolina to see off Williams, many might have expected a better fight, if only by virtue of her top-20 ranking. She got off to a strong start and overpowered Radwanska with aggressive shot making to force a decider before play was suspended.
Wednesday’s slate will try to finish all of those matches and a number of others that have been waiting days to get underway. She will not meet Serena until and unless they play the final.
Tournament officials particularly want to avoid a jam of backlogged matches that could force some players to play on consecutive days.
“The most important tournament for me is here in Paris, on the Philippe Chatrier Court with the crowd cheering for me, like they did”.
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Novak Djokovic (SRB)[1] vs. Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)[14].
