Austrailian Open - Women's Fourth Round
6 Francesca Schiavone d 23 Svetlana Kuznetsova - 64 16 16-14
Longest match in women's Slam history - 4 hours and 44 minutes.
I know we're only in Jan. but this could turn out to be the match of the year.
And I went to bed when they were locked at 7-7. Couldn't keep my eyes open.
Sveta had 6 match points... Franny served for it 3 times & was broken.
And as the match got deeper into the 3rd - the level of play went UP!
This win will lift Fran into the top 5. It's impossible to not cheer for Fran.
Fran: This is one of the most emotional moments of my life.
To me, this was personally really fantastic.
I hope one day to show this DVD to my son.
I told Svetlana she did a really good job and she's great, fantastic.
She said the same. We respect each other a lot.
Fran advances to her 6th Slam Qf: 1-4. Her 1st was at RG back in '01.
Her only Qf win, of course, last year at RG - she went on to win the title.
Best of luck: An exhausted Fran will next face Caroline Wozniacki. Um...
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I sure hope Sveta isn't gutted by this loss for tooooooo long.
Sveta: At some stage I was like, 'What's the score? Who's serving?
What's going on here anyway?' I had no clue sometimes.
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I's gonna speak for fans everywhere: Thanks for a great match ladies.
XOXO
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