Kalinskaya battles past Potapova to reach French Open quarter-finals

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kalinskaya-anna/KGdcQnEf/"]Kalinskaya[/a] clinched a [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/kalinskaya-a-KGdcQnEf/potapova-a-x81l09qG/?mid=pCanaMiD"]6-4, 2-6, 7-6(7) victory[/a] after two hours and 49 minutes on Court Suzanne Lenglen against 28th-seeded Austrian [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/potapova-anastasia/x81l09qG/"]Potapova[/a].[/p][p]The 27-year-old Kalinskaya, whose only previous Slam quarter-final appearance came at the 2024 Australian Open, will face either Polish qualifier [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/chwalinska-maja/OIxOD54s/"]Maja Chwalinska[/a] or Frenchwoman [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/parry-diane/hQQLzcNT/"]Diane Parry[/a] in the last eight on Wednesday.[/p][p][b]"It was an unbelievable fight from both of us until the last second," [/b]said Kalinskaya.[/p][embed guid="127aef87-7405-49b1-a392-c48cc6304f8a" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NaZ0b2KHeI" social-type="youtube" /][p]Potapova fought back from 4-1 down to take control of a nervy deciding set, but twice failed to serve out for the match.[/p][p]The 25-year-old, who switched allegiance from Russia to Austria last December, also took a 4-1 lead in the final-set tie-break before making a string of unforced errors to give up the advantage.[/p][image alt="Key match stats" id="265b091e-baeb-4fea-adc3-b1e7a49219d5" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="11c7f4ab-4f4e-4197-8a31-e9f161861f91" original-width="1080" original-height="1080" /][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/wta-singles/french-open/"]Follow the women's side at Roland Garros here.[/a][/b][/p]