Ottawa's Dabrowski, Brazil's Stefani advance to French Open doubles quarterfinals

Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil's Luisa Stefani advanced to the French Open women's doubles quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Norway's Ulrikke Eikeri and Quinn Gleason of the United States on Monday.

Dabrowski and Stefani won 80 per cent of first-serve points and converted four of eight break points.

Their final break put them up 5-4 in the second set before they held serve to clinch the win.

It was the second win for Dabrowski and Stefani over Eikeri and Gleason in as many months. Dabrowski and Stefani also beat them May 23 in the final of the Strasbourg International.

Dabrowski and Stefani, seeded fourth at the clay-court Grand Slam, will next face the 11th-seeded pair of Laura Siegemund of Germany and Vera Zvonareva of Russia.

In men's fourth-round action at Roland Garros, Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime faced Toronto-born Chilean Alejandro Tabilo.

Anna Kalinskaya surprised herself after defeating Anastasia Potapova 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (10-7) to reach her first French Open quarterfinal.

The Russian had not expected to get this far.

"Thinking two weeks ago that I will be here, I wouldn't believe it," she said. "I would probably laugh with my team."

Perhaps setting a low bar has helped her play more freely in the opening rounds.

"I just take this clay season very easy mentally. I don't put too much pressure to do well. I guess it helps," the No. 22 seed said. "I didn't have any expectations on clay for myself."

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.

It will be Kalinskaya's second quarterfinal at a major beside the 2024 Australian Open.

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