No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was upset by 15th seed Dominika Cibulkova in the fourth round of the French Open in Paris on Sunday 6-2, 7-6(4).
After winning the first game of the match which took 15 minutes and went nine deuces, Azarenka’s game went flat.  The Slovakian Cibulkova captured six of the next seven games to take the first set 6-2. Cibulkova who has fallen to the Belarusian Azarenka in Miami this year after having a set and 5-2 lead, rallied from a break down in the second set.
“I don’t know how to describe my performance really today,†Azarenka said. “It wasn’t satisfying at all. It wasn’t satisfying being out there playing that way.
“But I guess it happens, you know. I don’t know even what to find positive really in my performance today. But, well, it’s been too little time. Maybe in a few hours I’ll find something that I can be happy with.
“I’m gonna kill myself. What am I going to do recovering? I’m just gonna go on the practice court and practice again.
“This tournament is over for me. What’s to recover from? It’s to really look forward and improve. That’s it.
‘She’s definitely a good player. I think she plays much better against the top players than maybe a little bit lower ranked players. She really has that desire. I don’t know what motivates her to play that way.
“Yeah, she’s a dangerous opponent. She had big wins before, and it was no surprise that she was going to be playing well today.â€
“But this is for me really important stage that,” said Cibulkova, “I have this confidence that I really needed for a long time, and I think the confidence on this level the most important thing. So of course I believe, but I just need to keep this level, you know, and to go for next match, which is good things, you know, what I was able to do and change on the court.”
“It was one of the best moments, you know, this year for me, because I ..I didn’t have such a good result since the beginning of the year, and the most important for me, that it was not about that I go to quarterfinals or that I be No. 1, but it was the important thing that I just made it.
“The situations for me, I lost so many matches against good or worse players and I was up winning and then I just couldn’t make it.
“And now I just did it, and it was only me on the court who did it and nobody else. I was not like relying on somebody else. It was just my work. So, you know, it was something so good.”
Cibulkova will meet the winner of the Samantha Stosur- Sloane Stephens match in the quarterfinals. The last woman seeded No. 1 at Roland Garros to win the tournament was Justine Henin in 2007.
