Marion Bartoli beat two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the French Open. Bartoli will next face defending champion Francesca Schiavone, who rallied to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1-6, 7-5, 7-5. The 11th-seeded Frenchwoman overcame a 3-1 deficit in the tiebreaker to take a first set in which Kuznetsova had five double-faults and both...
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