In the eventful French open 2015, Seventh-seed Ana Ivanovic reached the French Open semi-finals after brushing aside Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina 6-3 6-2 at a blustery Roland Garros. Ivanovic, 27, last made the semi-finals of a major on her way to her only Grand Slam title in Paris seven years ago.
In a statement, the Serb seventh seed Ivanovic, 27, last made the semi-finals of a major on her way to her only Grand Slam title in Paris in 2008.
Lucie Safarova, the 13th seed, also advanced to the semifinals Tuesday, beating Garbine Muguruza 7-6 (3), 6-3 and who advanced to the semifinals of a Grand Slam event for just the second time in her career. Safarova will be playing in her second career Grand Slam semi-final after making the last four at Wimbledon in 2014. Safarova holds a 5-3 career lead over Ivanovic with a win apiece on clay.
To the archive from the tennis world, Ivanovic, a former world No. 1, has won three of eight matches against Safarova, including a second-round victory in the 2008 French Open.
After win the match, Ivanovic said “I do not know whether to feel happy or old,” who has now won all her seven meetings against Svitolina, seven years her junior.
In the match Ivanovic, former numbert 1 played aggressively throughout and compensated for her many mistakes with 37 winners as she extended her unbeaten record against Svitolina, a 20-year-old from Ukraine who was playing her first quarterfinal at a Grand Slam, to seven matches.
In men’s quarterfinals Tuesday, the fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan plays France’s No. 14 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, while 2009 winner Roger Federer faces fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka.
In addition, the other quarterfinals take place on Wednesday when two-time champion Williams tackles Italy’s Sara Errani, the 2012 runner-up, and Swiss 23rd seed Timea Bacsinszky faces unseeded Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck.
