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Krejcikova beats Stephens to storm into French Open quarters

PARIS: Big-hitting Czech Barbora Krejcikova powered past former French Open finalist Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-0 in a clash of unseeded players to reach the quarter-finals on Monday.
The 33rd-ranked Krejcikova, who won the 2018 doubles title at Roland Garros with Katerina Siniakova, has not lost since a maiden title-winning run in Strasbourg and dominated the 2017 US Open winner on a sun-bathed Suzanne Lenglen court.
Former world number three Stephens, who reached the final in Paris in 2018, did not have any answer to Krejcikova’s powerful but effortless stroke-making in their first meeting and did not help her cause by committing 26 unforced errors.
Krejcikova was the third Czech opponent for Stephens in a row and the American was forced to hurry her shots in the face of clean hitting from her opponent.
“I was just thinking I have to play my game, I have to be aggressive, because I was expecting she’s going to play like high, really topspin balls,” Krejcikova told reporters.
“And it was actually happening.
And then, you know, I just think that I was playing smarter.
I was actually playing all those important points really well, so I think that was actually the key.
“I felt a little bit that I actually wasn’t the favourite.
I felt that Sloane was the favourite.
That’s how I actually approached the match.” The 25-year-old Krejcikova broke the American’s serve twice in the opening set and then wiped her out in the second.
The Czech won 82% of her first serve points and saved all three break points she faced.
Krejcikova converted her second match point with a forehand winner, her 10th of the match, and will meet another American in 17-year-old Coco Gauff, who thrashed Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur 6-3 6-1, for a place in the semi-finals.

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