Roland Garros-2017: Muguruza and Venus Williams quit the tournament

In Paris continues 116th version of the Open championship of France on tennis.

The second racket of the world of Karolina Pliskova confidently defeated Karin Wicket and for the first time in his career he qualified for the 1/8 finals of Roland Garros. Along with Simona Halep, the Czech Republic still have a chance at a debut in the career of getting on the first line of rating WTA.

The results of the matches of the third round:

Anastasia Sevastova (Latvia, 17) – Petra Martic (Croatia) — 1:6, 1:6

Veronica Cepede (Paraguay) And Mariana Duque-Marino (Colombia) — 3:6, 7:6, 6:3

Karin Witthoeft (Germany) – Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic, 2) — 5:7, 1:6

Last year’s champion of the tournament Garbine of the State in a bitter three-set winner match I lost to Kristina Mladenovic and flew out of the top 10 of the WTA rankings.

Ex-first racket of the world Vinus Williams was unable for the first time in 11 years to reach the quarter-finals of a clay Helmet. The offender American became Timea Bacsinszky, who for three years had won in Paris on 13 matches.

After the defeat of Svetlana Kuznetsova from Caroline Wozniacki became clear that Roland Garros in 2017 will be the new champion. Among the contenders for the title appears and the strongest tennis player of Ukrainian Elina Svitolina.

The results of the matches of the fourth round:

Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark, 11) – Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia, 8) — 6:1, 4:6, 6:2

Venus Williams (USA, 10) – Timea Bachinski (Switzerland, 30) — 7:5, 2:6, 1:6

Garbine Muguruza (Spain, 4) – Kristina Mladenovic (France, 13) — 1:6, 6:3, 3:6

Elena Ostapenko (Latvia) – Samanta Stosur (Australia, 23) — 2:6, 6:2, 6:4

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