{"id":1568,"date":"2013-06-02T14:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:10:13","slug":"s-williamskuznetsova-advance-to-french-open-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/s-williamskuznetsova-advance-to-french-open-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Williams\/Radwanska Advance To French Open Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Roland Garros champion Svetlana Kuznetsova beat the German Angelique Kerber, the No. 8 seed, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first woman to advance to the French Open quarterfinals. It was a significant victory for the unseeded Russian, who had recently lost a long three-setter to Kerber in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Next up on Court Philippe Chatrier was the No. 1 seed, Serena Williams, also a former French Open champion, who beat the No. 15 seed, the Italian Roberta Vinci,\u00a06-1, 6-3, setting the stage for the first women&#8217;s quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian Sara Errani (5) defeated\u00a0Carla Suarez Navarro (20) of Spain, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. \u00a0The final spot in the quarterfinals was determined when Agnieszka Radwanska (4), of Poland, beat the former French Open champion\u00a0Ava Ivanovic (14), 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"tennis discussion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=326\"><strong>Click here to discuss the Williams\/Kuznetsova quarterfinal<\/strong><strong>, and more with fellow tennis fans on our discussion boards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"tennis discussion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=331\"><strong>Click here to discuss the Radwanska\/Errani quarterfinal<\/strong><strong>, and more with fellow tennis fans on our discussion boards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Roland Garros champion Svetlana Kuznetsova beat the German Angelique Kerber, the No. 8 seed, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first woman to advance to the French Open quarterfinals. It was a significant victory for the unseeded Russian, who had recently lost a long three-setter to Kerber in Madrid. Next up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[163,142,140,126,125,200],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-agnieszka-radwanska","tag-french-open","tag-roland-garros","tag-sara-errani","tag-serena-williams","tag-svetlana-kuznetsova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}