- Teenager makes French Open fourth round with 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 win
- Amanda Anisimova and Coco Gauff also through to last 16
For a short while during a cool afternoon on the vast Court Philippe Chatrier, it would have been fair to assume that Belinda Bencic was moving away with her third round match at speed. She had fought back from a first set deficit to level her third round match at one set all, and then she had established a 2-0, 40-0 lead, distancing herself in the final set.
But over the course of her short career, Leylah Annie Fernandez, who stood unmoved across the net, has shown that these tight moments with her back to the wall are often when the best version of herself emerges. Fernandez retrieved the break in exactly that game, breezed through five of the six games that followed and eventually defeated Bencic 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 to reach the fourth round of the French Open for the first time in her career.
