Roland Garros 2024: Gauff returns to QFs; Fritz & Navarro in last 16

Coco Gauff advanced to her fourth consecutive Roland Garros quarterfinal with a dominant win on Sunday, before Taylor Fritz and Emma Navarro bid to join her in the last eight with victories on Monday.

The third-seeded Gauff, a Paris finalist in 2022, has yet to drop a set this fortnight. The 20-year-old cruised in the quarters with a 6-1, 6-2 result against Italy's Elisabetta Cocciaretto; she has lost just 18 games across eight sets at the clay-court Slam.

Gauff won her first major title at the US Open last summer, but Roland Garros remains her best Slam in terms of match wins and winning percentage. Now 19-4 at the event, she boasts an 83% win rate—compared to her 78 percent success rate (14-4) in New York.

The American entered Paris behind a Rome semifinal run and is now focused on raising her game in the later rounds. Gauff will face eighth seed Ons Jabeur in the quarters and could meet world No. 1 and three-time champion Iga Swiatek in the semis.

"I definitely think that's what you want to do, is improve through each match," she said.

"Sometimes how you start is not necessarily how you finish a tournament. For me last week Rome was one of those where I went in not feeling great at all, and then I left feeling good about my game."

Fritz, Navarro ready for fourth-round tests

Both Fritz and Navarro are through to the Roland Garros last 16 for the first time. Fritz booked a showdown with two-time Paris finalist Casper Ruud via a 6-3, 6-2, 6-7(4), 5-7, 6-3 victory against Thanasi Kokkinakis on Saturday, his longest match of the tournament after four-set wins in each of the first two rounds.

The 12th seed played a memorable ATP Finals match against Ruud in 2022, falling just short in a third-set tiebreak—though Fritz still advanced to the knockout semifinals that week with wins in his two other round-robin contests.

Monday's meeting will be the pair's second overall and their first on clay, Ruud's favorite surface. But Fritz has proven plenty capable on the dirt this season. He reached his first clay ATP Tour final in Munich and backed that up with semifinal and quarterfinal runs at the ATP Masters 1000s in Madrid and Rome, respectively.