French Open 2017: Simona Halep & Alize Cornet into fourth round
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| Venue: Roland Garros, Paris Dates: 28 May- 11 June |
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Romanian third seed Simona Halep sealed her place in the French Open fourth round with a 6-0 7-5 win over Russia’s Daria Kasatkina.
Halep, 25, is viewed as one of this year’s title favourites after winning the Madrid Open and reaching the final in Rome last month.
She will face Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro for a place in the last eight.
Ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland was stunned 6-2 6-1 by French world number 43 Alize Cornet.
Cornet will now meet 28th seed Caroline Garcia in an all-French last-16 tie at Roland Garros.
Garcia needed more than two and a half hours to win 6-4 4-6 9-7 against Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei, who beat British number one Johanna Konta in the first round.
Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki resumed her match against 18-year-old American Catherine Bellis after rain stopped play on Friday night, the Dane going to complete a 6-2 2-6 6-3 win.
Suarez Navarro, the Spanish 21st seed, set up a clash against Halep with a 6-4 6-4 win over 14th seed Elena Vesnina of Russia.
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