2017 French Open: Top 5 upsets from the Women's Singles tournament so far

#3 Venus Williams

For the second successive time, Venus Williams was knocked out in the fourth round of the French Open

Williams put up a couple of impressive performances this year that included reaching the Australian Open final, the semi-finals of the Miami Masters, and the quarter-finals of the Indian Wells and Rome Masters. Based on her performances this year, she was expected to reach at least the fourth round and after the elimination of Dominika Cibulkova, Williams’ chances of reaching her first French Open quarter-final in 11 years were boosted.

Williams looked in good touch during her first three matches as she won all of them without dropping a single set. In the fourth round, Williams was up against 30^th seed Timea Bacsinszky who had beaten her at this very stage last year.

Williams edged out Bacsinszky 7-5 in the first set but the 2015 semi-finalist recovered well by taking the second set 6-2. The third set was even more one-sided than the second as Bacsinszky dominated Williams to take the set 6-1 and qualify for her third consecutive French Open quarter-final. Bacsinszky will next take on local girl Kristina Mladenovic to try and qualify for her second Grand Slam semi-final.