The highest seed still left in the draw, third seed Ksenia Pervak of Russia continued her quest to capture back to back junior grand slam title at Roland Garros on Thursday (June 4, 2009). In quarterfinals Pervak edged past her compatriot Valeria Solovieva 6-2, 7-5. In semi-finals, she will face another compatriot, Daria Gavrilova who had to fight hard in ending Peruvian qualifier’s fairytale and in the end Gavrilova won 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
15th seed Floridian Sloane Stephens maintained her fine form as she outclassed 11th seed Silvia Njiric from Croatia 6-2, 6-2. In the last four round, Stephens will clash with local player and 9th seed Kristina Mladenovic who battled past South African Chanel Simmonds 7-6(2), 6-2.
Singles – QF results
9-Kristina Mladenovic FRA d. Chanel Simmonds RSA 76(2) 62
15-Q-Sloane Stephens USA d. 11-Silvia Njiric CRO 62 62
3-Ksenia Pervak RUS d. Valeria Solovieva RUS 62 75
Daria Gavrilova RUS d. Q-Bianca Botto PER 64 26 62
Doubles – QF results
Ksenia Kirillova/Martina Trevisan (RUS/ITA) d. Isabella Holland/Olivia Rogowska (AUS) W/O
(6) Yana Buchina/Ksenia Pervak (RUS) d. (4) Kristina Mladenovic/Silvia Njiric (FRA/CRO) 36 63 10-6
(3) Timea Babos/Heather Watson (HUN/GBR) d. Kataren Paliivets/Chanel Simmonds (CAN/RSA) 63 64
(2) Elena Bogdan/Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (ROU/THA) d. (7)Beatrice Capra/Lauren Embree (USA) 61 64
Photo of Sloane Stephens is courtesy of collegejuniortennis.com
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