Paris, France (Sports Network) - Serena Williams domination of womens tennis continued Sunday with a straight-set win over Italys Roberta Vinci in the fourth round of the French Open. The top-seeded Williams rolled to a 6-1, 6-3 triumph and extended her career- best winning streak to 28 straight matches. She hasnt lost since falling to Victoria Azarenka in the Doha final back in February and entered the second Grand Slam of the year off titles in Miami, Charleston, Madrid and Rome. Sundays victory gave Williams a 20-0 mark on clay this year. She also improved to 71-3 overall since a stunning first-round loss to Virginie Razzano in last years French Open, and has dropped just 10 games through the first four rounds of this years stay at Roland Garros. The 15th-seeded Vinci has given Williams the most trouble thus far by taking four games. However, it really wasnt much of a contest. Williams won the first four games and captured the opening set in 29 minutes. The second set was closer, but Williams won the final 10 points of the match. Next up for the 15-time Grand Slam champ is Russian veteran Svetlana Kuznetsova, a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 upset winner over eighth-seeded German Angelique Kerber. Kuznetsova won the 2009 French Open, beating Williams in the quarterfinals along the way, and was the runner-up in 2006. She has reached her second Grand Slam quarterfinal in as many tries this year after a trip to the final eight at the Australian Open in January, but hasnt won a tournament of any kind since 2010 in San Diego. Williams, the 2002 French champ, owns a 6-2 lifetime mark against Kuznetsova, but the two havent met since 2009 at the Tour Championships in Qatar. "It will be a good match," said Williams. "Last time we played here she won so that will probably get her pumped up and shes on a comeback. She has nothing to lose but everything to gain. Ive had some pretty tough matches on clay this year and for sure this will be another." 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Under Armour Wholesale Australia . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf.TRINEC, Czech Republic -- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga overcame an early scare to win the opening reverse singles Sunday to give France a 3-1 victory over the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup quarterfinals.Amid increased security following the deadly attack in the French city of Nice, Tsonga rallied to beat Jiri Vesely 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-5 and earn a spot in the Davis Cup semifinals for France for the second time in three years.Tsonga said it was a team effort.This weekend we won with the group, he said. They played really well in the doubles and gave me the opportunity to finish, so today is the win of the group.France faces the United States or Croatia in the semifinals in September. Ahead of the reverse singles, the Americans lead 2-1.The 10th-ranked Frenchman hit a big passing forehand to gain two break points in the 11th game of the fourth set and closed out the best-of-five series on his first match point on the indoor hard court in the eastern Czech city of Trinec.The final singles was not played.France has nine Davis Cup titles, but it last won in 2001. The French have played three finals since, most recently in 2014 when they lost to Switzerland after knocking out the Czechs in the semis.Since the start of the match everything was going wrong for me, Tsonga said.ddddddddddddSo many break points, so many balls to make it and I didnt. So, at the end I said `you fight all along for the match and you deserve to win so you will make it. Finally the match turned but it was hard.Tsonga double faulted to give Vesely a break point in the fifth game of the opening set and the 50th-ranked Czech converted it. Tsonga wasted his two break points in the eighth game and hit the net on Veselys second set point.Tsonga earned a set point at 5-4 in the second set with a backhand volley but wasted it before prevailing in the tiebreaker when Vesely served two straight double faults.Vesely dropped his serve for the first time to trail 3-4 in the third set with Tsonga serving it out with one of his 45 winners.His forehand is lethal, Vesely said. Its a huge weapon.Wimbledon doubles champions Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert fought past Lukas Rosol and Radek Stepanek 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Saturday to give France a 2-1 lead.On Friday, Rosol beat Tsonga in a five-setter, and Lucas Pouille made a victorious Davis Cup debut by beating Vesely in straight sets. ' ' '
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