#4 Dominika Cibulkova
Last year’s WTA Finals Champion was considered a dark horse as well for the French Open despite second round losses at the Madrid and Italian Masters. Seeded sixth, the 2009 semi-finalist was up against Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena and registered a routine win by thrashing her 6-2, 6-1.
In the second round, the Slovak was up against Tunisian Ons Jabeur who was ranked 114th in the world and was able to enter the tournament as a lucky loser after Laura Siegemund pulled out of the competition.
In a surprising turn of events, Jabeur scripted one of the upsets of the tournament by defeating Cibulkova rather comfortably by the scoreline of 6-4, 6-3. This was Jabeur’s first victory over a top 10 player and the lowest ranked player to defeat Cibulkova at a Grand Slam since CiCi Bellis at the 2014 US Open. Jabeur was comprehensively beaten by 30th seed Timea Bacsinszky in the third round, however.
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