Holger Rune and Beatriz Haddad Maia triumphed in marathon French Open epics which took nearly eight hours to finish on Monday whereas Iga Swiatek required simply 31 minutes to maneuver into the quarter-finals.

World quantity six Rune reached a second successive quarter-final in Paris along with his first ever five-set win.

The 20-year-old Dane claimed a four-hour 7-6 (7/3), 3-6, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (10/7) victory in opposition to Francisco Cerundolo and can face 2022 runner-up Casper Ruud in a repeat of final yr's bad-tempered quarter-final.

Rune was jeered by the Court Philippe Chatrier crowd for hitting the ball on a double bounce within the fourth recreation of the third set.

His twenty third seeded Argentine opponent stopped taking part in, anticipating the umpire to name the purpose for him.

Play continued and Cerundolo, who was known as for hindrance when he halted, dropped serve.

"This is tennis. This is sports. Some umpires, they make mistakes. Some for me; some for him. That's life," stated Rune.

Cerundolo, taking part in within the second week of a Slam for the primary time, had the gang on its ft when he hit again to stage the match.

In a dramatic decider, Rune survived being 3-4, 0-40 to carry after which break.

He served for the match at 5-4 however the 24-year-old from Buenos Aires hit again to stage for 5-5 and held for 6-5 earlier than the match went to a knife-edge super-tiebreak.

Rune completed the match with 48 winners and 73 unforced errors.

"What a sport," tweeted Cerundolo.

Haddad Maia received the third longest ever girls's match at Roland Garros to grow to be the primary Brazilian girl within the final eight of a Slam since 1968.

Haddad Maia battled from a set and 3-0 right down to defeat Sara Sorribes Tormo in three hours and 51 minutes.

The 27-year-old left-hander got here by 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 7-5 in opposition to her 132nd-ranked Spanish opponent on Court Suzanne Lenglen, the venue additionally for the Rune-Cerundolo conflict later within the afternoon.

The match was simply 16 minutes wanting the file 4 hours and 7 minutes it took Virginie Buisson to beat French compatriot Noelle van Lottum within the first spherical in 1995.

Haddad Maia is the primary Brazilian girl in a Slam quarter-final since seven-time main winner Maria Bueno in 1968.

She will face world quantity seven Ons Jabeur of Tunisia for a spot within the semi-finals.

"I am very happy and very proud that I didn't give up and I think that is why I deserved this victory," stated Haddad Maia.

Haddad Maia, ranked 14, who saved a match level in her earlier spherical in opposition to Ekaterina Alexandrova, is not any stranger to energy-sapping duels.

In Rome final month, she dropped a three-hour 41-minute quarter-final to Anhelina Kalinina -- now the second longest girls's match of 2023.

Defending champion and world primary Swiatek set-up a quarter-final with Coco Gauff after Lesia Tsurenko retired from their last-16 conflict by sickness after simply 31 minutes.

Swiatek was main 5-1 when the 66th-ranked Tsurenko, who had known as the physician after experiencing dizziness and shortness of breath, determined to not proceed.

In her final spherical, Swiatek was on court docket for simply 51 minutes in a 6-0, 6-0 blitz of China's Wang Xinyu.

Gauff, 19, reached the quarter-finals for a 3rd successive yr with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia.

Last yr Swiatek defeated Gauff 6-1, 6-3 within the closing to win the title for a second time.

She holds a 6-0 lead over the American in head-to-head conferences.

"Finals have kind of different rules," stated Swiatek.

"Sometimes these matches are a little bit different than the other rounds that we play during the tournament because of the pressure and everything that's going on around."

Jabeur powered into the quarter-finals for the primary time with a 6-3, 6-1 rout of Bernarda Pera, breaking the American's serve eight instances.

Jabeur, a Wimbledon and U.S. Open runner-up final yr, has now reached at the least the quarter-finals of all 4 Slams.

Fourth-ranked Ruud, the runner-up to Rafael Nadal a yr in the past, beat in-form Nicolas Jarry of Chile 7-6 (7/3), 7-5, 7-5.

The Norwegian saved 14 of 17 break factors and now has a tour-leading 85 clay court docket wins since 2020.

"It was three very, very difficult sets. How long would it have been if we had gone to a fifth set?" stated the 24-year-old after a three-hour 20-minute battle.

Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka faces Tomas Martin Etcheverry of Argentina whereas Alexander Zverev, a two-time semi-finalist, faces Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov within the evening session.