World number six Rune reached a second successive quarter-final in Paris with his first-ever five-set win 🎾 ECRSportsWave FrenchOpen
World number six Rune reached a second successive quarter-final in Paris with his first ever five-set win.
"This is tennis. This is sports. Some umpires, they make mistakes. Some for me; some for him. That's life," said Rune. The match was just 16 minutes short of the record four hours and seven minutes it took Virginie Buisson to beat French compatriot Noelle van Lottum in the first round in 1995. In Rome last month, she dropped a three-hour 41-minute quarter-final to Anhelina Kalinina -- now the second longest women's match of 2023.Defending champion and world number one Swiatek set-up a quarter-final with Coco Gauff after Lesia Tsurenko retired from their last-16 clash through illness after just 31 minutes.
Gauff, 19, reached the quarter-finals for a third successive year with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia.She holds a 6-0 lead over the American in head-to-head meetings."Sometimes these matches are a little bit different than the other rounds that we play during the tournament because of the pressure and everything that's going on around."
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