テニスのグランドスラム大会である全仏オープン（フランス/パリ、クレー）は大会６日目の２９日、女子シングルス３回戦が行われ、第２９シードのＡ・サバイ（ハンガリー） が第３シードのＶ・ウィリアムズ（アメリカ）を6-0, 6-4で破り、４回戦に進出する番狂わせが起きた。
現在のランキングは２９位ながらも、かつてはトップ１５選手として活躍していたサバイは、第１セットをわずか３０分で先取すると、第２セットでは先にヴィーナスにブレークを許したものの、ブレークバックに成功し世界ランク３位のヴィーナスから金星を上げた。
試合後の会見でサバイは「キャリアで一番大きい勝利かもしれないわ。大きなものの一つには違いないわ。私はただ自分のプレーにと次のポイントに集中していただけなの。そうしたらマッチポイントに気づいて、「どうしよう、ヴィーナス相手にマッチポイントを取っているわ」と考え始めたと思ったら、すぐに試合が終わり私が勝っていたわ。」と無心の勝利であったことを語った。
今大会初の４回戦進出を果たしたサバイは、第２０シードのＤ・チブルコワ（スロバキア）とベスト入りを争う。チブルコワは、ノーシードのＧ・ドゥルコ（アルゼンチン）に6-4, 6-2で勝利しての４回戦進出を決めた。
昨年の今大会の決勝で対戦した、第１シードのＤ・サフィーナ（ロシア）と第８シードのＡ・イバノビッチ（セルビア）はそれぞれ順当な勝ち上がりを見せている。
１回戦、２回戦を圧勝で勝ち上がってきたサフィーナは、第２７シードのＡ・パブリュチェンコワ（ロシア）に6-2, 6-0とこの日も快勝、３試合でわずかに４ゲームしか失わず４回戦進出を決めた。一方のイバノビッチは、第３２シードのＩ・ベネソバ（チェコ共和国）に6-0, 6-2と快勝、タイトル防衛に向けてまた一歩前進した。
また肩の怪我から復帰したばかりのＭ・シャラポワ（ロシア）は、Ｙ・シュウェドワ（カザフスタン）を1-6, 6-3, 6-4の逆転で下し、２年連続での４回戦進出を果たした。グランドスラム３勝を誇るシャラポワだが、全仏オープンでの優勝はいまだに無く、最高成績は２００７年のベスト４となっている。
この他の試合の結果は以下の通り。
Ｖ・アザレンカ（ベラルーシ） (9) vs. Ｃ・スアレス・ナバロ（スペイン） (22), 5-7, 7-5, 中断
Ｎ・リー（中国） (25) ○-× Ｏ・ゴヴォルツォバ（ベラルーシ）, 7-5, 6-1
Ａ・レザイ（フランス） ○-× Ｍ・ラシェール・ダ・ブリート, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2
今大会の優勝賞金は１０６万ユーロ。", "女子シングルス 第三回戦
Ｄ・サフィーナ (1) ○-× Ａ・パブリュチェンコワ (27), 6-2, 6-0
Ａ・サバイ (29) ○-× Ｖ・ウィリアムズ (3), 6-0, 6-4
Ａ・イバノビッチ (8) ○-× Ｉ・ベネソバ (32), 6-0, 6-2
Ｖ・アザレンカ (9) vs. Carla Suarez-Navarro (22), 5-7, 7-5, 中断
Ｄ・チブルコワ (20) ○-× Ｇ・ドゥルコ, 6-4, 6-2
Ｎ・リー (25) ○-× Ｏ・ゴヴォルツォバ, 7-5, 6-1
Ａ・レザイ ○-× Ｍ・ラシェール・ダ・ブリート, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2
Ｍ・シャラポワ ○-× Ｙ・シュウェドワ, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
PARIS(AP) -- Ｖ・ウィリアムズ was eliminated from the French Open on
Friday, losing in the third round of the clay-court major for
the third straight year.
The third-seeded Williams, who reached the 2002 final at Roland
Garros, lost to No. 31 Ａ・サバイ of Hungary 6-0, 6-4.
The seven-time Grand Slam champion was playing for the third
straight day. She lost the first set of her second-round match
against Ｌ・サファロバ（チェコ共和国） on Wednesday before play was suspended
because of darkness. Williams saved a match point before beating
Safarova on Thursday.
She was also stretched to three sets in the first round.
Ａ・イバノビッチ had little trouble in her match, advancing to the
fourth round by dominating another opponent in a 6-0, 6-2 win
over Ｉ・ベネソバ of the Czech Republic.
The defending champion from Serbia has lost only eight games
since being taken to a tiebreaker in her opening match.
""(The) score doesn't indicate how hard I had to work for some
points,"" Ivanovic said. ""She started playing much, much better
in the second set, and started hitting the ball much heavier. I
just played really good and stayed in the moment and did what I
had to do out there.""
Ivanovic, a former No. 1-ranked player, won her only Grand Slam
title at last year's French Open. She lost in the final at
Roland Garros in 2007.
PARIS, France - Dinara Safina and Ana Ivanovic continued their quarterfinal collision course but their biggest potential semifinal threat was ousted, as Agnes Szavay pulled off a stunning win over Venus Williams.
Szavay, seeded No.29 but a former Top 15 player with six Top 10 wins to her name, earned her seventh such win over the game's highest elite in dominant fashion, cruising through the first set in just half an hour and enduring a tighter second set to beat world No.3 Williams, 60 64.
""I had a tough day, and I didn't get the ball in the court, and that didn't help me at all,"" said Williams, who did recover somewhat in the second set, holding a point for a 5-3 lead at one point. ""I'm used to beating people 6-0. I'm not used to my shots not going in and losing a set 6-0. So it was completely foreign ground for me. I had a lot of struggles out there and you've got to play well. Today it just didn't come together for me.""
""This may be the biggest win of my career. It's for sure one of the biggest ones,"" Szavay said. ""I just kept playing my game and always concentrated on the next point, then I realized I had match point. I started to think, 'Oh my God, I have match point against Venus.' But suddenly it was over and I won the match.""
Williams is a former French Open finalist, losing the title match to Serena Williams in 2002, but apart from that has never been past the quarterfinals. This was her third straight loss in the third round, having fallen to Jelena Jankovic at this stage in 2007 and to Flavia Pennetta in the same round 12 months ago.
Safina and Ivanovic, who squared off for the title here a year ago, had no trouble in their matches. Safina, the No.1 seed and last year's runner-up, crushed No.27 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 62 60, now losing just four games in her first three matches combined; Ivanovic, the No.8 seed and defending champion, beat No.32 seed Iveta Benesova by a similar straight set scoreline, 60 62.
""We had a few very tough games at the start but when I broke her I started playing much more aggressively, and then I was dominating,"" said Safina, the first player in 15 years to lose less than five games en route to the fourth round. ""I just try to be dominant on the court. If I don't, the other player will take their chances and it'll be 50/50. But if I am I know it's not easy to handle my level.""
Other third round winners on Friday were No.20 seed Dominika Cibulkova, who beat Gisela Dulko, 64 62; No.25 seed Li Na, who beat Olga Govortsova, 75 61; Aravane Rezai, who beat qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito, 76(3) 62; and last but definitely not least Maria Sharapova, who continued her comeback with another comeback, battling to beat qualifier Yaroslava Shvedova, 16 63 64.
""I dug a nice pothole for myself there. That's kind of what I've been doing the last few rounds,"" Sharapova said on the slow start. ""I got rid of all of those errors and started playing better. Even if I'm playing horribly in the beginning of the match, I know it's not over 'til it's over. I've given myself a chance to play another match. That's the only thing I can ask for now.""
（2009年5月30日13時51分）
