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(16) Elena Likhovtseva (RUS) vs. Sesil Karatantcheva (BUL) - Karatantcheva leads 1-0 29-year-old veteran Likhovtseva is making her first quarterfinal appearance in her 11th trip to Roland Garros. The Russian has not had an easy route to her career-third Grand Slam quarterfinal. She began with a 26 64 64 win over 76th-ranked Yuliana Fedak, and after a routine win over 73rd-ranked Mariana Diaz-Oliva in the second round, she defeated No.18 seed Silvia Farina Elia for the first time in over 10 years by a score of 75 76(2) to reach the round of 16 here for the first time. There, she upset 2004 runner-up and No.4 seed Elena Dementieva 76(3) 57 75 in just under three hours. She will next face 2004 junior Roland Garros champion Sesil Karatantcheva. The 98th-ranked Karatantcheva has made her biggest career breakthrough here, in just her career-third Grand Slam main draw appearance. Just two days after notching her then-biggest career win over No.19 seed Shinobu Asagoe here in the second round, she defeated No.11 seed Venus Williams in three sets in the third round, following that up with a 75 63 win in the fourth round over 105th-ranked Emanuelle Gagliardi to reach her third career quarterfinal. Including her junior title run here last year, the 15-year-old Bulgarian has now won 10 matches in a row at Roland Garros. She will look to keep that streak going on Tuesday against Likhovtseva. In their only previous encounter, Karatantcheva outlasted Likhovtseva 62 06 76(3) in the second round at the Gold Coast event in January.

(7) Nadia Petrova (RUS) vs. (29) Ana Ivanovic (SCG) - Ivanovic leads 1-0 2003 semifinalist Petrova has had impressive results on clay in 2005, winning 14 of 17 matches heading into the quarterfinals here, a record that includes a runner-up finish in Berlin and a semifinal finish at Amelia Island. After dropping just 14 games in her first three rounds here, she was put to the test in the fourth round on Sunday by 12th-seeded Elena Bovina, overcoming her compatriot 75 36 64 in almost two and a half hours. She will face stiff competition again in her next match against rising Serbian star Ana Ivanovic, who has torn up the field in just her first trip to Roland Garros. After not losing a set en route to the third round, she stunned No.3 seed Amelie Mauresmo 64 36 64 to become just the fifth Grand Slam debutante in the Open Era to defeat a Top Three player. She followed up that win with a 64 67(3) 63 fourth round victory over No.22 seed Francesca Schiavone. It should come as no surprise that Ivanovic has made it so far here. She is in the midst of a breakthrough season, highlighted by her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title at Canberra, her first three Top 10 match victories, and her first Tier II semifinal appearance at Warsaw. In their only prior meeting, Ivanovic defeated the Russian 64 75 in the second round at Miami earlier this year, which at the time was the 17-year-old's first Top 20 win.

(2) Maria Sharapova (RUS) vs. (10) Justine Henin-Hardenne (BEL) - Tied 1-1 Second-ranked Sharapova began her French Open campaign with a tough three-set win over 41st-ranked Evgenia Linetskaya, but has dropped just 15 games in her three matches since, most recently a 62 63 win over 46th-ranked Nuria Llagostera Vives in a rain-delayed fourth round match that was started on Sunday but finished on Monday. The Russian teenager has won nine of 11 matches on clay so far in 2005, including her very first clay court semifinal appearance in Rome two weeks ago. She is also making her second straight quarterfinal appearance at Roland Garros. 2003 champion Henin-Hardenne has had a more complicated path to the quarterfinals, including three-set battles with 45th-ranked Conchita Martinez and 34th-ranked Anabel Medina Garrigues, and most recently overcoming a 5-3 third set deficit and two match points to defeat reigning US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round. Her troubles come in stark contrast to her results prior to Roland Garros, which include consecutive titles at Charleston, Warsaw and Berlin, and what is now a 21-match win streak heading into the quarterfinals. The pair has split their two prior meetings. Sharapova stopped Henin-Hardenne in the Belgian's season debut on the hard courts at Miami, squandering match points in the second set but closing it out 61 67(6) 62 in the quarterfinals. Henin-Hardenne gained revenge on red clay in the quarterfinals of Berlin, where she dispatched the Russian 62 64 en route to her third title at the event.

(1) Lindsay Davenport (USA) vs. (21) Mary Pierce (FRA) - Davenport leads 8-2 World No.1 Davenport has shown a lot of resilience and heart this year at Roland Garros, surviving three-set matches in each of her four rounds prior to Tuesday's quarterfinal. Most recently, she came back from a one set, one break deficit in the fourth round to defeat 2003 runner-up Kim Clijsters for the first time in her last seven encounters with the Belgian. The American has amassed a 13-1 clay court record this season, including winning her second straight title at Amelia Island in April. In contrast, 2000 champion Pierce (pictured) has only dropped one set en route to her fourth career quarterfinal in Paris. She followed up an impressive 76(2) 75 third round win over No.9 seed Vera Zvonareva with a 61 16 64 upset of recent Rome finalist and No.8 seed Patty Schnyder on Sunday. The Frenchwoman is 11-4 on clay this season, but more impressively is now 42-13 at Roland Garros, a record that includes a 1994 runner-up finish here in addition to her 2000 title. Although Davenport has won eight of their 10 previous meetings, the two have not met since October, 1999 at the Grand Slam Cup, where Davenport won in three sets. They have played just three times on clay, with Davenport leading 2-1, but with Pierce winning 46 63 63 in the semifinals at Amelia Island in 1998, which was their last meeting on the surface.

May 30, 2005 Roland Garros: Quarterfinal Preview PARIS - The world's Top 2 players, Lindsay Davenport and Maria Sharapova, will be put to the test by two former champions while Russians Nadia Petrova and Elena Likhovsteva will be challenged by up-and-coming teenagers, as the stars of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour take to the court on Tuesday for the 2005 French Open quarterfinals. The following is a match-by-match preview of the day's action.

Down To The Wire Tuesday is women's singles quarterfinal day at Roland Garros, with just eight women remaining in the year's second Grand Slam. The world's Top 2 - Lindsay Davenport and Maria Sharapova - take on former champions Mary Pierce and Justine Henin-Hardenne respectively. No.10 seed Henin-Hardenne (left) staged a brilliant comeback on Monday, trailing 5-3 in the third set and saving two match points before ousting US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 76(6) 46 75. The other quarterfinals see Nadia Petrova take on Serbian sensation Ana Ivanovic and Elena Likhovtseva meet 15-year-old Bulgarian Sesil Karatantcheva.

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Rafael Nadal (4) - David Ferrer (20) When two clay court aficionados of the calibre of Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer meet, fireworks often fly and that could well be the case again here. Nadal showed remarkable self belief to crush French hopes Richard Gasquet and Sébastien Grosjean. Gasquet was dismissed in double quick time but Grosjean, and a partisan French crowd, had Nadal reeling ever so slightly at one set all. The way he proceeded to punish the Marseille man spoke volumes of the Spaniard's grit and skill. Compatriot David Ferrer, 23, showed equal doses of courage and stamina to overturn defending champion Gaston Gaudio in the last sixteen. Ferrer will be on a high following that breakthrough win over Gaudio but he will be shattered too. Four exhausting hours chasing Gaudio's topspin deliveries all over court No1 must have taken a lot out of him. Nadal, in contrast, was short, sharp and sweet in racing away with his overnight match against Sébastien Grosjean. Nadal beat Ferrer in the semi-finals of the Masters Series event in Rome, but it was close (4-6, 6-4, 7-5) and long (2 hours 29 minutes). Last year Ferrer got the upper hand in Stuttgart on clay (6-3, 6-7(3), 7-5). The two also met on the hard court in Miami earlier this year when Nadal won 6-4, 6-3. Translation: David Tutton (Sportstranslations)