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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Belgium’s David Goffin, rear right, and Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis, center right, leave as rain suspended the fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Tuesday, May 31. Asked if she’s concerned by the prospect of possibly playing four days in a row to defend her title, Serena said she’s done it before. “That definitely added to my troubles”. After going down 2-0, the Swiss won 12 of the last 16 games and sealed the win with her first ace of the match on match point to beat Venus for the first time in her career. Williams slipped to her knees at the baseline on one point, and was generally out of sorts, managing to produce a total of only six winners, while committing 24 unforced errors.
Although spluttering from time to time – Williams fired the odd serve alarmingly long, and hit the occasional simple groundstroke into the net – the No1 seed always did enough to neuter her scurrying opponent. “She gets a lot of balls back”.
Venus turns 36 this month and was the oldest woman in the field.
Fourteen years after they faced off in the 2002 French Open final, Venus Williams and Serena Williams staged a family reunion playing doubles together in Paris last week.
Serena Williams cruised into the quarter-finals at Roland Garros.
The No. 1-seeded Serena looked very much like a 21-time Grand Slam champion facing a 21-year-old who has only reached one major quarterfinal, with a 27-10 advantage in winners.
Bacsinszky, who reached the semi-final a year ago before losing in three sets to Venus’ sister Serena, will play Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands in the quarter-final.
“I’m sure it was really tricky [on Tuesday] and must have been really hard to keep warming up and keep going, going, going”.
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After defeating No. 3-seed Angelique Kerber in the opening round and taking out No. 29-seed Daria Kasatkina in the third round, 58th-ranked Bertens continued her form vs. Keys in a match that was postponed from Monday.
