The third longest women’s singles match in French Open history was played on Monday as Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil beat Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain 6-7, 6-3, 7-5 according to The Hindu Sportstar. The fourth round French Open match lasted three hours and 51 minutes before Haddad Maia was the winner.
Sorribes Tormo was actually in complete control in this one. She was up a set and 3-0 in the second set, when Haddad Maia won the next six games to take the middle frame. The score in the first set tiebreak was 7-3 Sorribes Tormo.
Haddad Maia, the 14th seed, broke Sorribes Tormo nine times throughout the match and won 127 of the 247 points. She will next play two-time grand slam finalist and seventh seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Jabeur reached the final of the 2022 United States Open and 2022 Wimbledon. Now let’s take a look at the first, second and fourth longest women’s singles matches in French Open history.
4) Francesca Schiavone–Italy versus Svetlana Kuznetsova–Russia
This second round French Open match in 2015 lasted three hours and 50 minutes before Schiavone won 6-7, 7-5, 10-8. This was a battle of grand slam champions as Schiavone won the 2010 French Open and Kuznetsova (the 18th seed at the 2015 French Open) won the 2004 United States Open and 2009 French Open. Schiavone would lose her third round match at the 2015 French Open by a score of 7-5, 6-4 to Cristina-Andreea Mitu of Romania.
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2) Kerry Melville–Australia vs. Pam Teeguarden–United States
The third round match of the 1972 French Open lasted three hours and 55 minutes before Melville of Mosman won 9-7, 4-6, 16-14. In the fourth round, Melville faced another Australian in Evonne Goolagong of Griffith in a New South Wales battle, before Goolagong won 6-2, 6-3. Melville went on to win the 1977 Australian Open.
1) Virgine Buisson–France vs. Noelle van Lottum–France
This all-Frenchwomen battle took place in the first round of the 1995 French Open before Boisson won 6-7, 7-5, 6-2 in four hours and seven minutes. The match contained several long rallies from the baseline. Both players entered the main draw via a wildcard. Buisson would then lose 6-2, 6-1 to ninth seed Kimiko Date of Japan in the second round.
