Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková will play the French Open quarterfinals in Paris.
Sarah Meyssonnier, Reuters
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“I am extremely happy. I played well, I enjoyed the match. It’s fun to play here. I’m already looking forward to the next one,” said Krejčíková on the court. “Thanks for the support. I hope you had a good time and come to my next match,” she told the fans in the stands.
Krejčíková, similarly to a round earlier against the seed five Elin Svitolinová from Ukraine, did not expect anything and from the first balls of the duel, Stephens was determined by the pace of exchanges. And there was everything in her game – clay patience, lifted balls, squats, direct winning strokes and shortening for the net. She seemed confident and made mistakes only rarely.
Barbora Krejčíková in the eight-final battle at the French Open.
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In the first set, she went 2: 0 into the break, added another to 4: 1 and delivered the set safely. She didn’t slow down in the second set. At 5: 0, she made one of the few minor mistakes in the first match. Subsequently, she faced a breakball, which she averted a direct point from the service, and she used the second matchword with a winning forehand. She accompanied the finalist of the tournament from 2018 and the conquerors Karolín Plíšková and Muchová from the previous rounds with the “canary”.
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“Sloane is a great player. I watched her a few years ago when she played well and won the grand slam (US Open 2017). It was hard today, but I made less mistakes,” said Krejčíková.
In the fight for the semifinals, she will face her first duel with young American Hope Gauff, who is also among the top eight in singles in the grand slam for the first time. The 25th player in the world rankings, who celebrated her 17th birthday in March, is the youngest quarterfinalist in the Big Four tournament since Nicole Vaidišová at Roland Garros in 2006.
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American tennis player Sloane Stephens finished in Paris.
Sarah Meyssonnier, Reuters
Twenty-five-year-old Krejčíková has already won nine matches in a row. She succeeded five times last week on her way to her premiere single at the WTA circuit in Strasbourg, adding four more prizes in Paris. She won the lower circuit of the ITF fifteen times in a row the year before last.
Krejčík’s afternoon is still waiting for the quarterfinals of mixed doubles, in which they are the first pair with Slovak Filip Polášek. They are still continuing in the women’s doubles with Kateřina Siniaková and on Tuesday they will play in the quarterfinals with their sisters Karolína and Kristýna Plíšková.
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