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Martic into first Slam quarter-final in Paris

Published: 02 Jun 2019 - 02:15 pm | Last Updated: 05 Nov 2021 - 02:26 am
Croatia's Petra Martic reacts after winning her fourth round match against Estonia's Kaia Kanepi. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Croatia's Petra Martic reacts after winning her fourth round match against Estonia's Kaia Kanepi. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

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Paris: Croatian 31st seed Petra Martic reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final on Sunday with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 win over Estonia's Kaia Kanepi.
Martic, 28, had lost all of her previous last-16 matches at the majors including twice in Paris.
But on Sunday, she came back from breaks down in the second and third sets to book a quarter-final against 19-year-old Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic.
Martic had knocked out second seed Karolina Pliskova in the third round.