French Open 2018: Kasatkina stuns Wozniacki

Russia’s Daria Kasatkina celebrates after winning her fourth round match against Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki at the French Open 2018 tennis championship in Paris on Monday.

Russia’s Daria Kasatkina celebrates after winning her fourth round match against Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki at the French Open 2018 tennis championship in Paris on Monday.   | Photo Credit: Reuters

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Kasatkina will face US Open winner Sloane Stephens for a place in the semifinals.

Russian 14th seed Daria Kasatkina stunned world number two and Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 to reach her first Grand Slam quarter-final at Roland Garros on Monday.

Kasatkina raced away with the last three games of the tie which had been halted at 3-3 in the second set late Sunday because of bad light.

Kasatkina will face US Open winner Sloane Stephens for a place in the semifinals.

Halep races into third French Open quarterfinal

World number one Simona Halep, the runner-up in 2014 and 2017, routed Belgian 16th seed Elise Mertens 6-2, 6-1 to reach the French Open quarterfinals for the third time.

Top seed Halep will take on either German 12th seed Angelique Kerber or Caroline Garcia, the seventh-seeded Frenchwoman who made the last-eight in 2017.

Halep won in 59 minutes with the second set taking just 22 minutes.

The Romanian broke serve six times against a player who made the semi-finals at the Australian Open in January.

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