Alize Cornet – Caroline Garcia

Alize Cornet (43 WTA)

Alize comes to this confrontation after one of the biggest surprises from this Roland Garros edition, the elimination of Agnieszkai Radwanska (10 WTA), the number 9 headline. In the third round, the hosts’ team did not lose much Long time on the field in front of the sportsman in Poland, who managed to eliminate it with the score of 6-2, 6-1.

Until that match, Cornet crossed Timea Babos (35 WTA – 6-2, 6-7, 6-2) and Barbora Strycova (21 WTA – 6-4, 6-1).

Caroline Garcia (27 WTA)

The French player came to this tournament after the semifinals played in Strasbourg, where it was eliminated by Daria Gavrilova (24 WTA), with the score 6-4, 6-2. That was the third defeat suffered by Caroline this season on the clay. At Roland Garros, it did not have much emotion until round 3, when it needed 3 sets to pass Su-Wei Hsieh (109 WTA), score 6-4, 4-6, 9-7. Not only the number of sets was the Frenchman’s problem, but also the fact that her opponent served for the match at the 6-5 score in the decisive act.

Until confrontation with Hsieh, Garcia won two lightweight victories, 6-2, 6-2 against Nao Hibino (83 WTA) and 7-5, 6-4 against Chloe Paquet (260 WTA)