{"id":707962,"date":"2026-06-01T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707962\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:33:15","slug":"kalinskaya-beats-potapova-in-a-super-tiebreak-to-reach-her-first-french-open-quarterfinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707962\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalinskaya beats Potapova in a super tiebreak to reach her first French Open quarterfinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PARIS (AP) \u2014 Anna Kalinskaya of Russia made it to the quarterfinals of the French Open for the first time by defeating Anastasia Potapova of Austria 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (10-7) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Their contest on Court Suzanne-Lenglen stretched to almost three hours after Potapova failed to serve out the match twice in the decider and Kalinskaya overturned a 4-1 deficit in the super tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It will be 22nd-ranked Kalinskaya&#8217;s second quarterfinal at a major after she advanced that deep at the 2024 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Despite pre-tournament men\u2019s favorite Jannik Sinner losing in the second round, Italian fans will have at least one player in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tenth-seeded Flavio Cobolli advanced to the second Grand Slam quarterfinal of his career \u2014 and also his first here \u2014 after beating American Zachary Svajda 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His next opponent will be the winner of a fourth-round match later Monday between No. 4 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime and unseeded Alejandro Tabilo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Big-serving Matteo Berrettini, the other Italian left in the men&#8217;s and in the women&#8217;s draw, faces Juan Manuel Cerundolo later Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Also later, top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, last year&#8217;s runner-up, takes on Naomi Osaka in a match between four-time Grand Slam winners. It is the first women\u2019s night match at the French Open in three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Anna Kalinskaya of Russia made it to the quarterfinals of the French Open for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-707962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}