Despite a strong resistance, the two French players competing on Wednesday were defeated in straight sets and will not see the quarter-finals. Magda Linette, Stefanie Voegele, Maryna Zanevska, and Zarina Diyas are the first four players to qualify. Pauline Parmentier, who will play on Thursday, is now the last French player remaining in the tournament.
Amandine Hesse came very close to forcing a third set against the Swiss fifth seed Stefanie Voegele. It took a call overruled by the umpire for the advantage taken by the young French player at the end of the second set to diminish, allowing her opponent to force a tie break. In this tense deciding match, it was the Swiss who had the final say and qualified for the quarter-finals.
Virginie Razzano also put up a strong fight against the second seed Zarina Diyas. Each of the two sets was hard-fought, but the outcome was always favorable to the Kazakh who won 6-4 6-3.
With these two eliminations, Pauline Parmentier, who will play on Thursday, becomes the last French player in the competition. In the other matches of the day, Maryna Zanevska, a finalist in the tournament in 2013, battled to overcome the Georgian Ekaterine Gorgodze (6-2 4-6 6-2), and the Pole Magda Linette prevailed over the Serbian Aleksandra Krunic in two sets (6-3 6-4).
