Meanwhile, Williams won the first set against Bacsinszky before being outplayed in the final two of the two-hour, 12-minute match.
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Despite 16 double-faults, the Frenchwomen was able to pull the upset after the heavy backing of the home crowd.
Venus Williams wasn’t in the most talkative of moods Sunday after a three-set loss at the French Open.
Williams, seeded 10th and competing in her 20th French Open, fought back from 5-1 down rattling off six straight games to win the first set.
PARIS (AP) – Garbine Muguruza’s first attempt at defending a Grand Slam title did not last beyond the fourth round, where she ran into a determined Kristina Mladenovic backed by a vocal crowd of countrymen at Roland Garros.
Mladenovic is ow now face Timea Bacsinzky in the last eight after the Swiss came from a set down to beat Venus Williams of the United States, the 2002 French Open champion, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. Raonic advanced when Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez retired from the match due to a left thigh injury.
While Day 8 of the men’s singles tournament of the 2017 French Open at Stade Roland Garros took forever to finish thanks to a late draw by last year’s victor, Novak Djokovic, Day 9 went by very quickly with all the higher seeds advancing. No. 6 Dominic Thiem, with the winners facing off in the semifinals.
Venus Williams of the USA leans on her racket after missing a shot against Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France.
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The fourth-seeded Muguruza fell to No. 13 Kristina Mladenovic of France, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, amid a noisy cauldron of partisan support at the Suzanne Lenglen show court.
Mladenovic, a finalist in Madrid and Stuttgart on clay in recent weeks, overcame another double-fault laden performance and three-set battle.
Earlier, Latvian teenager Jelena Ostapenko reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 win over 2010 runner-up Samantha Stosur.
The 24th-seeded Gasquet stopped playing while trailing 4-3 in the third set.
– Nadal, who turned 31 on Saturday, hit 31 winners and served four aces.
– Isner bows out as the player with the most aces at Roland Garros so far.
Mladenovic’s serve seemed to be the key stat in the match.
Second-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic is in a good position after stopping Germany’s Carina Witthoeft 7-5, 6-1. She will next face the victor of the match between Veronica Cepede Royg and Mariana Duque-Marina.
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– Eighth seed Kei Nishikori of Japan beat South Korea’s Chung Hyeong 7-5 6-4 6-7 (4) 0-6 6-4 after their third-round encounter resumed on Sunday.
