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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

French Open 2016: Samantha Stosur Poised to Take Semifinal Slot


It's exciting to see Sam Stosur (#24) of Australia play well again in the grand slam stage.  It has been 4 years since she last reached her last semi-final here in Roland Garros.  And this is definitely a surface she loves to play in.  She was a finalist here after all, in 2010.

She's had to defeat a lot of very good players to reach this stage:

R1: Misaki Doi (JPN) (#42) 62 46 63

R2: Zhang Shuai (CHN) (#69) 63 64

R3: Lucie Safarova (CZE) (#13) 63 67(0) 75

R4: Simona Halep (ROU) (#6) 76(0) 63

On paper, she has a 3-1 head-to-head over Tsvetana Pironkova (#102) of Bulgaria, so she is the expected one to get the semi-final slot on her side of the draw.


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