FRENCH favourite Kristina Mladenovic skidded out of a storm-struck French Open on Tuesday, losing 6-4, 6-4 to Timea Bacsinszky in a rain-interrupted quarter-final.
She was again unable to back it up and Bacsinszky took the next four games to stretch to what proved to be a crucial 5-3 lead.
- Ticket holders at Roland Garros will get a refund as play lasted under two hours due to rain disruptions on Tuesday. Waves of weather - "We had a hurricane, a sandstorm, and we nearly had snow too", Bacsinszky said in her on-court interview - disrupted both players' games, but she said she was ready for a heavy surface. "There was fine weather, then rain, wind and a sandstorm".
"I had to stay concentrated".
"Her shots are hard to read", Wozniacki said, "so you don't really feel comfortable at any point in the match".
The 19-year-old became the first Latvian woman to reach a Grand Slam semi-final at the French Open on Tuesday after stunning Danish 11th seed Caroline Wozniacki 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Jelena Ostapenko and Timea Bacsinszky embraced after ensuring they will meet in the semi-finals of the French Open on their birthdays, while tennis legends were rolling back the years on a rainy day in Paris.
"I had so many great moments on the court, big wins and played a great game", she said. "I felt quite confident after we stopped in the third set and I won five games in a row".
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At 1-1 in the second set, the match was halted for three hours as torrential rain swept across Roland Garros.
In the second set the match was suspended on 1-all break point for Bacsinszky. "I love to play here".
Bacsinszky and Ostapenko got acquainted a year ago when they played doubles at an event in China, and they embraced when they saw each other in the players' gym after their respective matches. "If I keep it up, I think anything can happen", she added confidently.
The world No. 47 is the first Latvian women's singles player to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam.
It seemed like Mother Nature was doing her utmost to help Kristina Mladenovic at the French Open Tuesday but she just couldn't take advantage.
The world number 14 fought back the tears as she left the court, with French hopes now left to rest with Caroline Garcia, who faces world number three Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday, while Elina Svitolina of the Ukraine plays Romania number three seed Simona Halep.
- Caroline Wozniacki managed just six winners in her three-set defeat to Jelena Ostapenko.
In Melbourne last January, she made the Australian Open third round and she's now in the Roland Garros semi-finals.
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