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Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the French Open quarterfinals on Monday, defeating Alejandro Tabilo of Chile 6-3, 7-5, 6-1.
Auger-Aliassime, ranked No. 4 in the tournament, will be in tough on Wednesday as he faces No. 10 Flavio Cobolli of Italy.
Auger-Aliassime took control of Monday’s match from the onset, overmatching Tabilo, who was born in Toronto.
Ottawa’s Dabrowski advances in doubles
Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil’s Luisa Stefani advanced to the French Open women’s doubles quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Quinn Gleason of the United States on Monday.
Dabrowski and Stefani won 80 per cent of first-serve points and converted four of eight break points.
Their final break put them up 5-4 in the second set before they held serve to clinch the win.
It was the second win for Dabrowski and Stefani over Eikeri and Gleason in as many months. Dabrowski and Stefani also beat them May 23 in the final of the Strasbourg International.
Dabrowski and Stefani, seeded fourth at the clay-court Grand Slam, will next face the 11th-seeded pair of Laura Siegemund of Germany and Vera Zvonareva of Russia.
In men’s fourth-round action at Roland Garros, Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime faced Toronto-born Chilean Alejandro Tabilo.
Kalinskaya prevails in super tiebreak
Anna Kalinskaya surprised herself after defeating Anastasia Potapova 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (10-7) to reach her first French Open quarterfinal.
The Russian had not expected to get this far.
“Thinking two weeks ago that I will be here, I wouldn’t believe it,” she said. “I would probably laugh with my team.”
Perhaps setting a low bar has helped her play more freely in the opening rounds.
“I just take this clay season very easy mentally. I don’t put too much pressure to do well. I guess it helps,” the No. 22 seed said. “I didn’t have any expectations on clay for myself.”
Their contest on Court Suzanne-Lenglen stretched to almost three hours after Potapova failed to serve out the match twice in the decider and Kalinskaya overturned a 4-1 deficit in the super tiebreak.
It will be Kalinskaya’s second quarterfinal at a major beside the 2024 Australian Open.
Despite pre-tournament men’s favourite Jannik Sinner losing in the second round, Italian fans will have at least one player in the quarterfinals.
Tenth-seeded Flavio Cobolli advanced to his second Grand Slam quarterfinal — and his first here — after beating American Zachary Svajda 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5).
Big-serving Matteo Berrettini, the other remaining Italian, faces Juan Manuel Cerundolo also later Monday.
But French hopes are over following Diane Parry’s 6-3, 6-2 loss to Maja Chwalinska of Poland. There are also no more Americans in the women’s draw after Madison Keys lost to Diana Shnaider 6-3, 3-6, 6-0.
Later, top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, last year’s runner-up, takes on Naomi Osaka in a match between four-time Grand Slam winners. It is the first women’s night match at the French Open in three years.
Soccer stars show off Champions League trophy
Paris Saint-Germain took its Champions League success to the French Open on Monday when Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembele and three teammates raised the trophy for tennis fans.
Dembele and his France teammates Bradley Barcola, Warren Zaire-Emery and Desire Doue received a standing ovation from tennis fans as they took to the sun-drenched Philippe-Chatrier court.
PSG won Europe’s most prestigious club competition for a second straight year on Saturday after beating Arsenal in a tense final which finished with a penalty shootout.
PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi was also present at Roland Garros stadium, which is in western Paris close to PSG’s own arena, the Parc des Princes. A former tennis player, the 52-year-old Al-Khelaifi played two ATP tour matches, including a loss to 1995 French Open champion Thomas Muster, and played for Qatar in the Davis Cup.
France is among the favourites of the World Cup starting June 11 in Mexico, Canada and the United States.
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