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Naomi Osaka’s run at the French Open ended on Monday.Aurelien Morissard\/AP Photo\/Aurelien Morissard<\/p>\nSabakenka wore more standard tennis attire: A slightly sheer black flared tennis dress with a red underlayer; plus diamond necklaces.<\/p>\n
In the matchup of four-time Grand Slam champions, Sabalenka improved to 3-1 in her career against Osaka, who was playing in the fourth round at Roland Garros for the first time.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka overpowered Osaka from the baseline, and produced a huge forehand return winner on her first match point that Osaka barely got her racket on.<\/p>\n
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Naomi Osaka’s run at the French Open ended on Monday.Aurelien Morissard\/AP Photo\/Aurelien Morissard<\/p>\n
Tournament organizers had been criticized for not scheduling more women\u2019s matches at night, with Roland Garros officials responding that women\u2019s best-of-three set matches don\u2019t occupy enough time for TV broadcasters. The men play best-of-five set matches.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka won in 1 hour, 27 minutes.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka\u2019s quarterfinal opponent will be Diana Shnaider, who beat Madison Keys \u2014 the last American woman remaining in contention \u2014 6-3, 3-6, 6-0.<\/p>\n
French hopes were dashed following Diane Parry\u2019s 6-3, 6-2 loss to 114th-ranked Polish player Maja Chwalinska.<\/p>\n
Chwalinska had never been beyond the second round of any major, and her run is even more impressive since she came through three qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n
Chwalinska\u2019s quarterfinal opponent will be Anna Kalinskaya, who surprised even herself by reaching the last eight after defeating Anastasia Potapova 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (10-7).<\/p>\n
\u201cThinking two weeks ago that I will be here, I wouldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Kalinskaya said. \u201cI would probably laugh with my team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many top women\u2019s players were already eliminated, such as Gauff, four-time winner Iga Swiatek and No. 2-ranked Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n
Sinner\u2019s out but Italians move on<\/p>\n
Despite top-ranked Jannik Sinner losing in the second round, Italian fans will have at least two men in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Tenth-seeded Flavio Cobolli advanced to his second Grand Slam quarterfinal \u2014 and his first here \u2014 after beating American Zachary Svajda 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s for sure my favorite Grand Slam to play,\u201d Cobolli said after winning on Court Philippe-Chatrier. \u201cWe have the best feeling with the surface as Italians.\u201d<\/p>\n
A little while after his win, Cobolli \u2014 a former youth soccer player at Italian club Roma \u2014 joined players from the Paris Saint-Germain team as they paraded the Champions League trophy on Court Philippe-Chatrier. PSG beat Arsenal in the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Cobolli\u2019s next opponent will be No. 4 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, who beat Alejandro Tabilo 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 to reach the last eight at all four majors. The Canadian has never been beyond a Grand Slam semifinal, though.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot having Sinner in the semifinals is another opportunity, but you need to be there,\u201d Auger-Aliassime said. \u201cSo I have to focus on the next match.\u201d<\/p>\n
Big-serving Matteo Berrettini joined Cobolli in the quarterfinals after beating Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-3, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6). Berrettini last reached the quarterfinals here in 2021 \u2014 but hadn\u2019t been back to the tournament since then because of a series of injuries and physical issues.<\/p>\n
Matteo Arnaldi will try to make it three Italians in the last eight when he plays No. 19 Frances Tiafoe later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabakenka wore more standard tennis attire: A slightly sheer black flared tennis dress with a red underlayer; plus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25450,10239,18176,25451,25456,3668,25453,16184,2840,25457,8,25458,25454,25448,4469,25459,85,25449,3498,25455,2536,1257,25452,2753],"class_list":["post-33456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-osaka","tag-adult","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-celebration","tag-color-image","tag-day-9","tag-france","tag-french-tennis-open","tag-grand-slam","tag-horizontal","tag-international-tennis-federation","tag-japan","tag-match-sport","tag-match-point-scoring","tag-motion","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-open-competition","tag-osaka","tag-paris-france","tag-photography","tag-round-four","tag-sport","tag-tennis","tag-winning","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}