WATCH LIVE: French Open women’s semifinals

American Sofia Kenin and Czech Petra Kvitova play for a spot within the French Open remaining, stay on NBC Sports activities on Thursday.

Kenin, the fourth seed and Australian Open champion, and Kvitova, the seventh seed and two-time Wimbledon champion, meet within the second semifinal at Roland Garros.

Protection begins at 11 a.m. ET on NBC (stay on East Coast), NBCSN (stay throughout the nation), NBCSports.com/stay and the NBC Sports activities app.

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The winner will get 54th-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland or 131st-ranked Nadia Podoroska of Argentina, guaranteeing the lowest-ranked ladies’s French Open finalist because the inception of pc rankings in 1975.

Kenin is bidding to hitch Venus and Serena Williams as American ladies to make a number of Grand Slam finals in a single 12 months since 2006.

Kenin got here into the event with out the everyday quantity of buzz accompanying a No. four seed. She was swept 6-0, 6-Zero by Victoria Azarenka in her lone clay-court match earlier than Paris.

However Kenin, born in Moscow and raised in Florida by Russian dad and mom, confirmed the combating spirit so obvious in her enjoying fashion. She received 4 of her 5 matches in three units to achieve her first semifinal at Roland Garros.

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Kvitova endured a lot since her earlier French Open semifinal in 2012. It was at Roland Garros that she made her return in 2017 from a knife-wielding robber assault in her house the earlier December.

Kvitova, winner of the WTA Tour’s sportsmanship award seven years working, was in tears after successful her fourth-round match on Court docket Philippe Chatrier, the identical venue as her first match again on tour in 2017.

Within the quarterfinals, she swept 66th-ranked German Laura Siegemund to achieve the ultimate 4 with out dropping a set.

NBC’s French Open protection continues Friday with the boys’s semifinals — Rafael Nadal vs. Diego Schwartzman and Novak Djokovic vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas.

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