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Sunday, June 1, 2014

Tennis-Bouchard breezes into last eight, Murray survives

Eugenie Bouchard of Canada returns a forehand to Angelique Kerber of Germany during their women's singles match at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Eugenie Bouchard's meteoric rise continued on Sunday when the baby-faced Canadian demolished Angelique Kerber 6-1 6-2 to claim a quarter-final spot at the French Open. The 18th seeded Bouchard, who reached the Australian Open semi-final this year, blazed away with 30 winners in just 52 minutes on court Philippe Chatrier. Andy Murray survived a cliffhanger against Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber, returning to court on Sunday to win 12-10 in the deciding set after their third-round match had been stopped by bad light at 7-7 in the fifth the previous evening. French hopes took a knock as Richard Gasquet failed to stage a comeback against Spain's Fernando Verdasco in another third round match held over from Saturday.




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