The Joker Lois Boisson delighted its house fans with a superb fourth tower upheaval of the seeded n ° 3 Jessica Pegula on Monday at the Open of France in Paris.
Classified n ° 361 in the world, Boisson, 22, joined for a 3-6 victory, 6-4, 6-4 before a delighted crowd at the court of Philippe-Chatrier in Roland Garros.
The 2 hour and 40 -minute drinking breakthrough came in its first main draw of Grand Chelem and its second WTA Tour event, becoming the first Frenchman to reach the quarter -finals since 2017.
PEGULA, classified n ° 3 in the world, had a 4-3 lead in the second and third sets but could not put a drink.
Boisson is the least classified woman to make a quarter -final of the Grand Slam since n ° 418 Kaia Kanepi at the US Open 2017, and the first woman to reach this Tour in her first major since Carla Suarez Navarro in Paris in 2008.
The next for drink is the seeded n ° 6 Mirra Andreeva, who has also evolved in straight sets. The 18-year-old Russian training partner sent and seeded n ° 17 Daria Kasatkina 6-3, 7-5 to become the youngest woman to reach the last eight at the Major de la Court de Clay since Martina Hingis in 1997-1998.
Andreeva, who overcome a deficit of 5-3 in the second set, compiled an advantage of 28-11 among the winners and converted four of the seven chances of breakup.
The seeded n ° 2 Coco Gauff qualified for its fifth quarter-final of France consecutive with a 6-0, 7-5 victory against Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian of 20th seeded, in 82 minutes.
At 21, Gauff is the fourth largest woman in the open era to record a sequence as long behind Hingis (1997-2001), Stefanie Graf (1986-90) and Conchita Martinez (1989-1993).
Gauff, a finalist in 2022, will face his American colleagues Madison Keys in the quarterfinals. The Keys of the seventh seeded beaten Hailey Baptiste 6-3, 7-5.
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