Madison Keys reached her first French Open quarter-final with a 6-1 6-4 win over Romania’s Mihaela Buzarnescu.

American 13th seed Keys, the 2017 US Open runner-up, broke serve in the second and sixth games before taking the first set with a powerful forehand.

She sealed the win with an ace on her third match point.

Sloane Stephens beat Anett Kontaveit 6-2 6-0 to set up a potential semi-final meeting with Keys, whom she beat in the final at Flushing Meadows.

“I was really pleased to get out and play some good tennis,” said the US Open champion.

American Stephens will face the winner of second seed Caroline Wozniacki’s fourth-round match against Russia’s Daria Kasatkina, which takes place later on Sunday.

Keys will play Yulia Putintseva in the last eight after the Kazakh beat Czech Barbora Strycova 6-4 6-3.

“I’m really excited to be in my first quarter-finals in Paris,” said Keys. “I lost to my friend Sloane in the US Open final last year but I hope for big things here.”

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Great Britain men’s team suffered a 2-0 defeat in the wheelchair tennis World Team Cup final in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

Former Wimbledon champion Gordon Reid lost the opening match to Takashi Sanada 2-6 6-3 7-5 before French Open champion Alfie Hewett went down 6-2 6-3 to Shingo Kunieda.

In the women’s event, Britain won bronze with a 2-0 success over France.

Louise Hunt and Lucy Shuker won their matches to seal victory.

Serena Williams says she does not have any negative feelings towards Maria Sharapova and is surprised the Russian’s recent autobiography was so much about her.

Williams described the book as “100% hearsay” and said women should encourage each other rather than detailing locker-room incidents in a less than positive light.

The pair will meet in the fourth round of the French Open on Monday in their first match since the 2016 Australian Open.

Williams has won their last 18 meetings, with Sharapova’s only two victories coming in 2004.

And it was the first of those – in the Wimbledon final – that Sharapova believes was the catalyst for Williams’ domination since.

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“I think Serena hated me for being the skinny kid who beat her, against all odds, at Wimbledon,” she wrote in her 2017 autobiography ‘Unstoppable: My Life So Far’.

“I think she hated me for seeing her at her lowest moment. But mostly I think she hated me for hearing her cry. She’s never forgiven me for it.”

Williams gave her first response to the book as she faced questions following her straight-set third-round victory over Julia Gorges in Paris.

“I think the book was 100% hearsay, which was a little bit disappointing,” she said.

“I have cried in the locker room many times after a loss, and that’s what I have seen a lot of people do.

“I think it’s normal. I think if anything, it shows the passion and the desire and, you know, the will that you have to want to go out there and do the best.

“I think what happens there should definitely maybe stay there and not necessarily talk about it in a not-so-positive way in a book.

“I don’t have any negative feelings towards her, which again, was a little disappointing to see in that hearsay book. A lot of people always assume that I feel a different way and it’s not true.

“Especially having a daughter – I feel like negativity is taught. If anything, I feel like we should encourage each other, and the success of one female should be the inspiration to another, and I have said that a thousand times.

“As a fan, I wanted to read the book and I was really excited for it to come out and I was really happy for her.

“And then the book was a lot about me. I was surprised about that, to be honest. I was, like: ‘Oh, okay, I didn’t expect to be reading a book about me, that wasn’t necessarily true’.

“I didn’t know she looked up to me that much, or was so involved in my career.”

Williams and Sharapova have won five French Open singles titles between them, and both have played extremely well over the first three rounds at Roland Garros.

Sharapova seems finally free of the injuries that have plagued her since returning from a 15-month doping ban in April last year.

Williams’ biggest concern may be a lack of matches. The French Open marks only her third competitive appearance since the 2017 Australian Open, which was her last tournament before becoming a mother in September.

“She’s probably a favourite in this match, for sure,” Williams said of Monday’s 22nd meeting between the pair.

“She’s been playing for over a year now. I just started. But I think this will be another test.

“I think this is just one of her best surfaces, and she always does really, really well here.”

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Returning three-time champion Serena Williams set up a highly-anticipated French Open last-16 match against long-time rival Maria Sharapova by beating Germany’s Julia Gorges.

Williams, playing her first Grand Slam since giving birth, won 6-3 6-4 against 11th seed Gorges.

Earlier on Saturday, Russian two-time winner Sharapova beat sixth seed Karolina Pliskova 6-2 6-1.

Williams, 36, and Sharapova, 31, will meet in the fourth round on Monday.

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Williams eased to victory over 29-year-old Gorges, who reached the world’s top 10 for the first time this year, in just one hour and 15 minutes.

‘The numbers don’t lie’

The match between two of the sport’s biggest stars – with 28 Grand Slam titles between them, plus personalities and marketability which have helped them transcend tennis – was one of the most eye-catching permutations when the Roland Garros draw was made last week.

Spiky exchanges between the pair over the years have fuelled the narrative of a rivalry which, on court, has never been much of one.

Williams, a 23-time Slam champion, has won 19 of their 21 previous meetings on tour – both of Sharapova’s wins coming back in 2004.

“Any time you play against Serena you know what you’re up against,” Sharapova said.

“You know the challenge that is upon you. You know, despite the record that I have against her, I always look forward to coming out on the court and competing against the best player.

“I think there is a lot of things in her game that she’s done much better than I have. Numbers don’t lie.”

Sharapova is competing at Roland Garros for the first time since 2015, having been refused a wildcard entry in 2017 after serving a doping ban.

Williams underlines her credentials

Williams, who was playing just her seventh match after returning from having a baby, has so far played down her chances of winning a joint-record 24th Grand Slam singles title.

But against Gorges she underlined her credentials, dominating from the start with a break in the fourth game and she took the first set with an emphatic smash.

She got an early break in the second set too before the German staged a brief fightback to level at 2-2, but another Williams break in the next game put the match out of Gorges’ reach.

“It’s really special to be here again,” said Williams. “This time last year I was pregnant and I was having a tough time and then I had a tough birth so every match at this stage of my return is a bonus.”

Analysis

BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller

This was a seriously impressive performance by Serena Williams.

She served extremely well, but it was the quality of her returns which really caught the eye. And the three-time champion gave Gorges very little in the way of free gifts – making only 12 unforced errors, according to the stats.

Sharapova was also in fantastic form when she demolished Pliskova earlier in the day, so roll on Monday, when the pair will meet for the first time since the 2016 Australian Open quarter-final.