Tuesday at Roland Garros featured the first two women’s singles quarterfinals. Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens set up the first all-American French Open semifinal since 2002 which is at the same time a rematch of last year’s US Open final when Stephens won her maiden Grand Slam title.
By defeating Yulia Putintseva 7-6(5) 6-4, Keys, at 23 years, 113 days old, became the youngest American to reach the French Open semifinals since Serena in 2003 (21 years, 255 days). Kazakh Putintseva was the first player to take a lead in the opening quarterfinal this year in Paris, going 5-3 up with more versatile and precise game, but the 13th-seeded Keys fought back to win the first set in a tiebreak.