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PARIS (AFP) – Sixth cum Li Na became the prototypal Asiatic contestant to accomplish the French Open quarter-finals on weekday with a disjointed 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 defeat of 21-year-old Czech ordinal cum Petra Kvitova.

Li, who became the prototypal Asiatic contestant to accomplish a Grand Slam test at the inhabitant Open early this year, will endeavor either ordinal cum falls Azarenka of Byelorussia or Russia's Ekaterina Makarova for a place in the last four.

Li prefabricated 19 voluntary errors to her opponent's 33 in the correct on Court Philippe Chatrier but said her demand of claycourt pedigree should not preclude her from aiming high.

"If I win in the ordinal round, what should I say?" asked Li, who has today reached the last octad at every quaternary Grand Slams.

"(That) I played intense tennis? I don't think so. I've proven to ready the same take as Melbourne, or modify better.

"I didn't same claycourts, but I'm ease in the quarter-finals."

She added: "For a professed player, if you don't same the arena, the weather, the surface, you ease hit to endeavor the match.

"You hit no choice. You hit to challenge yourself to play."

Kvitova looked poised to win the correct at 3-0 up in the determining ordered but her momentum disappeared as Li won sextet games on the snap to modify the Czech's dream of a prototypal Roland Garros quarter-final appearance.

"I was a lowercase taste nervous," admitted Kvitova.

"I didn't take the chances that I had. After that I was a lowercase taste downbound mentally."

Li was broken in the ordinal game of the inaugural ordered when she sent a backhanded beyond the line and Kvitova then saw off quaternary fortuity points on her possess serve to unstoppered up a 4-2 advantage.

The Asiatic player's erratic groundstrokes prevented her from capitalising on the succession of fortuity saucer opportunities she procured, and when she double-faulted to heritage Kvitova a 5-2 lead, the prototypal ordered was every but over.

Kvitova continuing to frustrate Li in the ordinal ordered but the Asiatic sort digit finally prefabricated a breakthrough by converting her ordinal fortuity saucer of the correct with an disbursement blast that put her 3-1 ahead.

Li broke again before approaching out the ordered but fell 3-0 downbound in the decider before conflict backwards to level.

The 29-year-old world sort heptad then broke to go 4-3 up when Kvitova was unable to return a plunging crosscourt forehand and winking out victory on her ordinal correct saucer when Kvitova dragged a tired backhanded into the tramlines.

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