Petra Kvitova faces defeat against Svetlana Kuznetsova- slips down from last 16

Svetlana Kuznetsova bagged a position in the final sixteen of the French Open after beating Petra Kbitova. The score post the face off was 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 9-7, while the tournament lost its 5 top seeds. Talking about her win Kuznetsova commented that she is extremely happy about entering in the top 16 players of the season.  This three hour thirteen minutes match, the longest one in women’s section, Kuznetsova the 2009 winner took maximum advantage of the Kvitova’s unforced errors and double faults and hence set up a 4^th round clash against Lucie Safarova, a Czech national.

Kvitova was a former champion of Wimbledon and back in the year 2012 was a semi finalist. She enjoyed a career edge of 3-0 over the ace Russian, and stepped into the clash on Saturday. However her efforts were weakened by medical timeouts she needed for treating her back injury, twice.  2 match points were saved in 12^th decider game, nevertheless her inconsistent game play made her fail in the third set.

This season is Kuznetsova’s 12^th consecutive season of the French Open, where she is going to next face off Safarova, Kvitova’s teammate in the Fed Cup. Safarova put out Ana Ivanovic, the 11^th seed and also the champion of 2008 with a score of 6-3, 6-3. This was Ivanovic’s 5^th consecutive defeat against Safarova as the latter booked a spot in the final 16 of French Open, for the 1^st time after 2007.

Simona Halep, the 4^th seed also made it through the final sixteen of French Open. Maria Torro-Flor of Spain was brushed aside by the 22 year old with the score of 6-3, 6-0 as she next takes on Sloane Stephens, the 15^th seed. In all 3 rounds in Paris, Halep has lost a total of 11 games.