The quarter finals saw one upset.
(Rank/Seed)
5/1 Sharapova advanced beyond the quarters here for the first time in beating Belgium's (21/8) Flipkens 62 62. Sharapova is unbeaten in their head to head (4-0) and was only broken once all match as she handled Flipkens all court game and slice backhand well.
7/3 Errani avenged the first round loss of her close friend and doubles partner, (14/6) Vinci at the hands of the Ukraine's, Svitolina, beating her 62 63.
Russian, Pavlyuchenkova beat (9/4) Kerber 57 63 76(3) for a third time in 5 meetings to reach her first semi final here. After losing a tense first set in which she'd led 4-1, Pavlyuchenkova relaxed in the second, bossing the points with her flat hitting. However, Kerber was as resilient as ever in retrieving some seeming winners time and time again and actually led with service through the third set. Though Pavlyuchenkova would break in the 11th game to serve for the match, Kerber broke straight back to enforce the breaker. It was here that Pavlyuchenkova's greater weight of shot and willingness to take risks paid off as she maintained her perfect record against the German in tiebreakers at 3-0.
France's, Cornet gave the home crowd something to cheer about after outlasting German, Petkovic 76(6) 57 63 after having missed three match points in the second set, one of which she thought she'd hit an ace on!
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