PARIS — With the four remaining Grand Slam winners all falling in their fourth-round matches Sunday at the French Open, there will be a new women’s major champion crowned Saturday at Roland Garros.
It is the first time that no past major winners have reached the quarterfinal stage at a women’s Grand Slam event since the 1979 Australian Open, and the first time in Paris since 1977.
Venus Williams, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Samantha Stosur and Garbiñe Muguruza, the defending champion, lost Sunday, leaving a dozen women in contention who have never won a major — four in the quarterfinals and eight awaiting Monday’s fourth-round matches.