{"id":681991,"date":"2026-06-03T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681991\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:43:09","slug":"french-open-aryna-sabalenka-upset-by-diana-shnaider-in-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681991\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Aryna Sabalenka upset by Diana Shnaider in quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/tennis\/topic\/french-open\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:French Open;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;French Open&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">French Open<\/a> that has been defined by premature exits, Aryna Sabalenka is the latest to fall. The women\u2019s No. 1 looked strong against Diana Shnaider early, but faltered as the match went on, leading to yet another major upset at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka took an early lead \u2014 and even threatened a quick win in the match \u2014 before Shnaider stormed back to win it (3-6, 7-5, 6-0).<\/p>\n<p>The wind was a factor for both players early, with gusts as high as 26 mph affecting serves and shots in the first set. Sabalenka managed to adjust to the weather quickly, picking up a 6-3 win to take the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka threatened to close the book on Shnaider early, going up 4-1 in the second set. But Shnaider battled back, taking the next two games. After a hard-fought eighth game, Sabalenka went up 5-3, and sat just a game away from winning the match. At that point, Shnaider reeled off four straight wins, taking the second set 7-5 and putting Sabalenka on upset alert.<\/p>\n<p>It marked the first time throughout the event that Sabalenka dropped a set.<\/p>\n<p>From there, Shnaider couldn\u2019t be stopped. The Russian jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the final set thanks to strong play and uncharacteristic mistakes from Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With the momentum now fully on her side, Shnaider easily closed out Sabalenka in the final game, taking the last set 6-0 and winning the match.<\/p>\n<p>For Shnaider, the win extends her best-ever performance in a Grand Slam. Prior to the 2026 French Open, the farthest Shnaider had ever lasted in the Grand Slam came in 2024, when she reached the fourth round of the US Open. With her win Wednesday, Shnaider has now reached the semifinals at a Grand Slam for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n<p>While the competition should get easier from here, Shnaider will run into another surprise story in the semifinal round. Maja Chwali\u0144ska managed an upset over No. 22 seed Anna Kalinskaya early Wednesday. The two have met just once in their careers, with Shnaider winning that match.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For Sabalenka, it marks yet another disappointing defeat at the French Open. Though she\u2019s made deep runs at the event in each of the past four years, she has never won the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into Wednesday, it looked as though this was Sabalenka\u2019s best opportunity to win the event. The women\u2019s side of the bracket was decimated by early upsets, leaving No. 8 Mirra Andreeva as the highest-seeded competitor left for Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>Following Shnaider\u2019s upset Wednesday, that matchup won\u2019t happen. Andreeva will likely be considered the favorite moving forward, but it appears to be anyone\u2019s game on the women\u2019s side of the bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a French Open that has been defined by premature exits, Aryna Sabalenka is the latest to fall.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[652,4,450,66321,4039,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-681991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-diana-shnaider","tag-french-open","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}