Cecchinato upsets Goffin in 4th round

The bottom half of the draw played the 2018 Roland Garros round of sixteen and for the third match in a row, Sascha Zverev (2) had to come from two sets to one down and claim victory.

He defeated Karen Khachanov 4-6 7-6 (4) 2-6 6-3 6-3 and reached the quarter finals, the first time in a Grand Slam tournament.

He won’t want to give Dominic Thiem (7) the same sort of start when the two clash in a blockbuster quarter final.

Thiem lost a set in his fourth round match to Kei Nishikori (19) but he had already wrapped up the first two and he comfortably won the match   6-2 6-0 5-7 6-4

Thiem has his best record at Grand Slam level here in Paris, semi finalist the past two years.

Two American women are in the final eight - Madison Keys (13) defeated Mihaela Buzarnescu (31) 6-1 6-4 and Sloane Stephens (10) accounted for Anett Kontaveit (25) 6-2 6-0.

The winners were finalists in the 2017 US Open and they been solid in this years Open.

Next for Keys will be a quarter final battle with Yulia Putintseva whose best Roland Garros performance was another quarter final in 2016.

For Madison, her best effort prior to this year was a fourth round, also in 2016.

Yulia defeated the final Czech player left in the draw, Barbora Strycova (26) 6-4 6-3

Sloane Stephens has to meet the winner of the fourth round match between Caroline Wozniacki (2) and Daria Kasatkina (14) which was called off due to darkness, with Kasatkina ahead 7-6(5) 3-3.

For Stephens, this is her first Roland Garros quarter final, her previous best performances fourth rounds in consecutive years 2012-2015.

Wozniacki has been a quarter finalist in 2010 and 2017, but no further on the red clay in Paris.

Kasatkina, in her two forays before this year at Roland Garros, made the third  round on both occasions in 2016 and 2017

Novak Djokovic (20) has made the quarter finals here for the twelfth time in the last thirteen years, missing only in 2009, after disposing of Fernando (30) in straight sets 6-3 6-4 6-2

The 2016 champion will play Marco Cecchinato, who upset David Goffin (8) 7-5 4-6 6-0 6-3

Before this year, Marco in four attempts had only made it past qualifying once - in 2016, where he lost in the opening round.

His previous career high ranking was 59, but his efforts here have seen that jump to a live position of 42 - last week he was sitting at 72.

Sloane Stephens has moved from her previous career high of nine to a live position of eight, and a quarter final win would move it to six.