PARIS — Serena Williams has been living on the edge at the French Open and once again on Monday she survived, huffing and puffing into the quarter-finals with a 1-6 7-5 6-3 win over fellow American Sloane Stephens.
Stephens broke serve three times in the opening set against the 2002 and 2013 champion, who for the third match in a row at Roland Garros lost the opening set.
"It's not how you start, I guess it's how you finish. That's kind of how I'm looking at it," Williams told a news conference.
"I feel like I'm living on the edge.