At the Open championship of France on tennis has defined four participants in 1/4 finals.
Most in the lower part of a tournament grid was lucky Shelby Rogers and the Country the celestial body, because these players managed to reach the quarter-finals to 40-hour pause due to rainfall in Paris.
Rogers, 108-I racket of the world, was the first in four years chetvertfinalnoy Roland Garros not included in the hundred best tennis players in the world. American guaranteed a hit in the top 60 of the WTA rankings and if he wins in the quarterfinals can progress in the top 40.
For the semi-finals of the U.S. Open Rogers will face fourth seeded the Country with Mugurusi. The Spaniard in two sets confidently defeated the champion of Paris in 2009 Svetlana Kuznetsova. Muguruza in the third consecutive time will play in the 1/4 final of a clay major.
Postponed due to rain the matches were developed very dramatic. Tsvetana Pironkova in a match with Agnieszka Radwanska, second in the second set 0:3, managed to win ten games in a row. The second racket of the world in the deciding set only when the score was 0:4 managed to interrupt a long series of failures. And yet Pironkova did not allow the return of the comeback – tennis player from Bulgaria will play for the first time at such a late stage of Roland Garros.
Simone Halep the advantage was more modest, with a Romanian in a fight with Samantha Stosur to rain led 5:3. In the end the first set on the tiebreak badly, Stosur won, and the second party experienced the Australian quickly made the break and held its advantage. Stosur for the fourth time in his career he reached the quarterfinals at the the Open championship of France.
See also: Roland Garros-2016: Radwanska and Muguruza continue to struggle
The results of the matches of the fourth round:
Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia, 13) — The Country Muguruza (Spain, 4) — 3:6, 4:6
Irina Begu (Romania, 25) — Shelby Rogers (USA) — 3:6. 4:6
Simona Halep (Romania, 6) — Samanta Stosur (Australia, 21) – 6:7, 3:6
Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria) — Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland, 2) — 2:6, 6:3, 6:3
