This Thursday, Serena Williams played the toughest match of her 2016 French Open campaign, being just two games away from defeat against determined and inspired Yulia Putintseva, but the Kazakh failed to convert break points when she had an opportunity to level the score late in the second set and you know how the American starts rolling when her opponents don't capitalize on their chances.
The 21-year-old Putintseva displayed spectacular tennis in her quarterfinal encounter with Williams, opened it with a 3-1 lead and although she allowed the reigning champion to recover, Williams' out-of-control 24 unforced errors to Putintseva's mere two, put the first set into Putintseva's hands.