(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)PARIS – For eight long years, Zhang Shuai and Grand Slam tennis simply weren’t friends.
Now she is the first Chinese player into the fourth round in Paris since Li in 2012.
Kvitova beat 18-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the fourth round for the fifth time.
5 seed from Greece showed up for his third-round match at the French Open on Saturday with a pandemic-appropriate facial covering that had a picture of himself drawn on it.
30 seed from Tunisia, arrived sporting one, too, for her post-match news conference after becoming the first Arab woman to get to the fourth round at Roland Garros.