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NY Times · May 29, 2015

The Latest: Wrong-Way Cornet Reaches French Open 4th Round

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2:09 p.m.

How embarrassing.

Alize Cornet's 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni puts the 29th seed into the fourth round of the French Open for the first time in 11 attempts.

But in the 10th game of a tense third set, with Cornet on her second serve at 30-30, she served to the right when her opponent was standing on the left.

Oops.

Feeding off the energy of the partisan center-court crowd, the Frenchwoman let out angry screams and pumped her fists to release the tension. At deuce in the 11th game, she slipped and did the splits.

Full story at NY Times

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