Spain's Garbine Muguruza reacts as se plays France's Kristina Mladenovic during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, Sunday, June 4, 2017 in Paris.
When the women's champion is crowned at Roland Garros on Saturday, she will be a first-time Grand Slam victor.
The 14-time major victor has dropped just 20 games in four matches as he strives to become the first man to win 10 titles at a single Grand Slam.
Bacsinszky has now made it to at least the quarter-finals at Roland Garros in three straight years, Sunday's 5-7 6-2 6-1 win particularly impressive given she threw away a 5-1 lead in the opening set.
The only player to have beaten Nadal on clay this season is Austrian Dominic Thiem - who was playing Argentine Horacio Zeballos later.
Mladenovic is ow now face Timea Bacsinzky in the last eight after the Swiss came from a set down to beat Venus Williams of the United States, the 2002 French Open champion, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1.
While others home competitors at the French Open have struggled with the expectation on their shoulders at their home slam, Mladenovic has positively lapped it up, especially after having picked up the women's doubles title a year ago with former partner (and former friend) Caroline Garcia.
Bacsinszky didn't want to let up and must have kept the memory in her head of beating Williams past year at exactly this time in the 4th round of the French. Despite facing an opponent proficient on clay, which is not the Dane's best surface, Wozniacki showed unexpected aggression on her forehand, matching her opponent's tally of 26 winners.
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Wozniacki next faces the Latvian teenager Jelena Ostapenko, who knocked out Stosur 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 to reach her first quarter-final.
Mladenovic, who won despite serving 16 double faults, was tearful in a post-match interview on a Suzanne-Lenglen Court which had offered passionate support throughout.
"Everything wasn't ideal. There were a few concerns", Mladenovic said, before joking: "I made about 35 double-faults today, but everything's OK!"
But she ran out of steam as the 27-year-old Bacsinszky, who had wasted two set points in the first set, chased her across the court and won the next two easily, clinching the match with a ideal drop shot.
Djokovic pulled even with Federer and Nadal in number of French Open quarterfinal qualifications with a 7-6 (5), 6-1, 6-3 victory over No. 19 Albert Ramos-Vinolas.
Among four Chinese players who featured in women's doubles third round on Sunday, only Zheng Saisai remained in the draw as she and her Romanian partner Irina-Camelia Begu beat Duan Yingying and Peng Shuai of China 6-4, 6-2. Nadal won 6-0, 6-1, 6-0.
Nadal continued his ruthless form by dispatching Spanish 17th seed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. American Venus Williams, the 10th seed and only Williams sister playing due to her sister Serena's pregnancy, found herself on the losing end of a match against Timea Bacsinszky.
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