The damp conditions don’t suit Agnieszka Radwanska on Court Suzanne Lenglen, where the second-seeded Polish player has just lost six games in a row and the second set against Tsvetana Pironkova.
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Pironkova came from a set and a break down to eliminate world No. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska 2-6 6-3 6-3 and book her first French Open quarter-final.
With the men’s and women’s finals due to take place at the end of the week, questions are now being asked as to how the organisers will schedule the next few days of play with rain forecast again on Thursday after what looks likely to be a brief reprieve on Wednesday form the wet conditions that have marred the contest so far. She has reached Quarterfinals of French Open for the first time.
Monday was the first day entirely wiped out by wet weather at the French Open since May 30, 2000.
“I mean, it s not a 10,000 tournament”.
“No one cares about the players in my opinion”, sixth seed Halep said after she was beaten 7-6(0) 6-3 by Australian Sam Stosur in a battle of former finalists.
“I don’t know who allows us to play in these kind of conditions. It was OK. We could have played, and so we did”. To play tennis matches during the rain is a bit too much. “I don’t care that I lost the match today, but I was close to (getting) injured”.
“I don’t think they really care what we think”.
Four more fourth-round singles ties have been scrapped from Tuesday’s program: defending champion Serena Williams vs. No. 18-seed Elina Svitolina, No. 9 Venus Williams vs. No. 8 Timea Bacsinszky, Kiki Bertens vs. No. 15 Madison Keys and No. 12 Carla Suarez Navarro vs. Yulia Putintseva.
Radwanska finally managed to stop the downhill spiral when she broke in the fifth game but could not stop Pironkova from advancing to the quarterfinals.
They were the only two matches completed in the two hours play possible by early Tuesday evening after the tournament had suffered its first complete washout in 16 years on Monday. “But today the court was still hanging in”.
Those matches were also suspended yet again after only about a half-hour of play Tuesday.
“We shouldn t play in that kind of rain. Why?” Muguruza is already into the quarterfinals; the other three were scheduled to play in the fourth round later Tuesday.
Three other men’s last-16 ties – David Ferrer against Tomas Berdych, the clash between David Goffin and Ernests Gulbis as well as Marcel Granollers’s duel with Dominic Thiem were also still in progress.
Quarterfinal matches involving second-seeded Andy Murray of Scotland and ninth-seeded Richard Gasquet of France, as well as defending champion and third-seeded Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland and Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain were canceled and moved to Wednesday.
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It is the first set Djokovic has lost in this year’s tournament as he tries to win a fourth consecutive major title and complete a career Grand Slam.
