French wildcard Lois Boisson stunned number three seed Jessica Pegula to reach the French Open quarter-finals with a brilliant comeback.
Boisson is ranked at number 361 but delighted the home crowd with the biggest upset of the tournament so far as she rallied to a 3-6 6-4 6-4 victory in two hours and 40 minutes.
The pair traded breaks at the start of the match, but Pegula soon found her groove with a four-game winning streak to take the first set in just over half an hour.
Boisson matched Pegula again in the second set going a break up, only to be pegged back straight away.
After failing to convert two break points, going 4-3 down, though, Boisson won the next three games in a row, serving to love to force a decider.
The Frenchwoman again took the advantage in the third set, but had to dig deep for another strong finish after Pegula forced her way back in.
Boisson got the vital break on her fourth attempt in the penultimate game before fending off four break points of her own in the following game to earn a place in the last eight.
She will face Mirra Andreeva, who booked her place in the quarter-finals after a straight-sets win over Daria Kasatkina earlier on Monday.
Her 6-3 7-5 win means she is the youngest player to reach back-to-back women바카라™s singles quarter-finals at Roland-Garros since Martina Hingis (1997-1998).
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Boisson is contesting just her first grand slam main draw, and only her second tour-level event, but she has already pulled off a historic run in her home country.
She is only the second women's singles quarter-finalist at Roland-Garros as a wild card after Mary Pierce in 2002.
Excluding unranked, Boisson is the lowest ranked (#361) to reach a women's singles grand slam quarter-final since Kaia Kanepi at the US Open 2017 (#418), and the lowest ranked at Roland-Garros in the last 40 years.
And, at 22 years and nine days, she is the third-youngest French player to reach the women's singles quarter-finals at Roland-Garros in the Open Era, older only than Pierce in 1994 and Brigitte Simon in 1978.
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