Azarenka has not had the tournament she was hoping for in Paris.
This weekend she complained that it was too cold, and today came the next cold shower. Schmiedlova already broke in the first clip, and when she then managed to win her own serve in a clip that lasted 16 balls she had given herself a nice starting position .
26-year-old Schmiedlova did not lose a single clip where she herself had served the match through, where she saved five break balls. That together with the fact that Schmiedlova broke half of all Azarenka's serve clips meant that it was never close, but the 161st ranked Slovak cleaned away the 14th ranked Azarenka. Now Schmiedlova gets and now has to face the Argentine Nadia Podoroska in the round of 16. Podoroska, ranked 131, also beat a high ranked in the second round when she defeated 27th ranked Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 2-1 in sets.