Swiss Stan Wawrinka today failed to scare away the doubts hanging over his game in the quest to renew your title at Roland Garros, while Andy Murray seems to have found his instinct.
Wawrinka another set was left against Serbian Viktor Troicki, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-2, but said that his goal is not to seek the plasticity of the blows, but win matches.
After having been forced to pick up two runs in his debut in Paris against Czech Lukas Rosol, again hinted that did not find the crushing blow that led last year to lift the Musketeers Cup.
As he searches, he keeps going the rounds and today has seven consecutive wins since before coming to Paris tournament scored Geneva.
At 31, the Swiss will play their third quarter-final on the Paris clay and has a good chance to achieve their second semi-final since his opponent will be the Spanish Albert Ramos, one of the surprises of the tournament, 55 in the world and who he has beaten six times he has been in front, the latest just last week (6-1, 6-1).
But the Spanish tennis in Paris has found a high level of play that has allowed him to eliminate two seeded American Jack Sock and, above all, Canadian Milos Raonic, eighth seed, who today defeated 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.
Who himself seems to have rediscovered his best version is a Murray, coming back from two sets in their first two games, scored against American John Isner their second straight win in three sets, 7-6 (9), 6-4 and 6 -3, to dispute his sixth quarterfinal in Paris.
The patience shown to counteract the US giant cannon fire showed that the Scot has recovered the cold blood that led him to win the Rome Masters 1000 after winning the final against Novak Djokovic, the world number one.
Murray has the right trajectory to win the tournament marking the canons, from less to more, which adds that his game on clay has risen many integers and place it as the main obstacle to "Nole" lift their first Cup Musketeers.
The Scot faces a duel at your fingertips against Richard Gasquet, against whom he has not lost since 2012 and has won seven of the ten games.
Murray has beaten him four times those measured in Grand Slam, two Wimbledon and two at the same stage in 2010 and in 2012.
But the French, the last representative of the organizing country still en route from individual table, plays with the breath of the audience, a weapon that was not deprived to achieve their first qualification for the quarter-final against Japan's Kei Nishikori, fifth seed, 6 -4, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.
Sergi Bruguera's pupil lives a sweet moment and communion with the crowd, sometimes he reproached her coldness on the court, it seems to be behind us, sifting his genius by the personality of the Spanish technician.
In the women they reported no surprises, but rain forced to suspend two matches knockout. Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland was leading 6-2 3-0 Pironkova Tsvetana Bulgaria, while Romania's Simona Halep 5-3 overcame Australian Samantha Stosur.
The Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza won 6-3, 6-4 to Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova, who won the tournament in 2009, and thus qualified for the third consecutive year for the quarterfinals of Roland Garros.
The fourth favorite has a good chance to break the roof in this tournament, since his opponent in the semifinals will be the American Shelby Rogers, 108 of the world that prognosis against Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu won 6-3 and 6 -4.
Thus, Rogers became the seventh player with the worst ranking reaching the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam clay since 1983.
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