Paris, France (Sports Network) - Reigning champion Maria Sharapova and Australian Open titlist Victoria Azarenka were a pair of easy fourth-round winners Monday at the French Open. The second-seeded former world No. 1 Sharapova eased past 17th-seeded American Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-3, while the third-seeded former top-ranked Azarenka won the final nine games in a 6-3, 6-0 rout of former Roland Garros champ Francesca Schiavone to reach the quarterfinals in Paris for a third time. Schiavone won the 2010 French title and was the 2011 runner-up. The Italian veteran hasnt been past fourth round of a major since her loss to Li Na in the 2011 French finale. The reigning two-time Aussie Open champ Azarenka has never been to the semifinals at Roland Garros. "The next step is quarterfinals," said the Belarusian star. "Never been past it here, so it would definitely be a much better result." Sharapova beat Italian Sara Errani in last years French Open final to complete the career Grand Slam and has now won her last 11 matches here after dismissing Stephens on Monday. The Aussie Open semifinalist Stephens was 8-1 in Grand Slam action this season before running into the Russian superstar Sharapova, who broke her eight times in advancing. The 20-year-old Stephens is now 1-8 lifetime against women ranked in the top five. Sharapova will meet 18th-seeded fellow former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic in the quarterfinals, while Azarenka will next play 12th-seeded Russian Maria Kirilenko on Wednesday. Kirilenko handled surprising American Bethanie-Mattek Sands 7-5, 6-4 on Day 9. The 26-year-old Russian has yet to lose a set at this fortnight and will now appear in her first-ever French Open quarterfinal and third career major quarter. Meanwhile, the former U.S. Open runner-up Jankovic of Serbia routed upstart 23-year-old American Jamie Hampton 6-0, 6-2 in a brisk 62 minutes in the nightcap on Court Lenglen. Jankovic is now a four-time French Open quarterfinalist, having reached the semis here on three occasions. The quarters will commence Tuesday, as top-seeded Serena Williams will take on fellow former French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and fourth-seeded 2012 Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska will be opposed by a fifth-seeded Errani, who is 10-1 in Paris over the last two years. Williams is 6-2 lifetime against the two-time major champion Kuznetsova, but the Russian captured their lone French Open meeting in the 2009 quarterfinals. The 15-time Grand Slam singles titlist Williams is currently riding a career- best 28-match winning streak and is a perfect 20-0 on clay this year. 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Giambi belted a two-run, pinch-hit homer with two outs in the ninth inning to give Cleveland a shocking 5-4 win over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night, keeping the Indians up with the lead pack in the AL wild-card race. The world became a strange place on Wednesday. The last thing you expected to happen came over, sat down and gave you a big fat kiss. A bit like Bugs Bunny; that wascally wabbit always comes out trumps.Rajkots events may not trouble the wider public, but from the moment the coin fell in Englands favour, India were in unfamiliar territory. At least as far as recent memory goes. Virat Kohli has been able to win seven out of seven tosses since his first match in charge at home. Only once had he chosen to field, in the rained-out draw against South Africa in Bangalore a year ago. Every other time he and his men put runs on the board and won the game.Here, Alastair Cook called heads. It came down as heads. England batted for the rest of the day. India became a set of Elmer Fudds for the rest of the day: clumsy to start with and unthreatening for large parts.The dropped catches - three in the first half-hour - should be held against them. But they cant be faulted for effort. R Ashwin did get his offbreaks to drift and dip. Ravindra Jadeja did trap the batsman in his crease. Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav did generate reverse swing. So what was missing? Why did they concede 311 runs and the first century scored by a visiting batsman since 2013?Scoreboard pressure. India had to make do without it.The Saurashtra Cricket Association was hosting its first Test. The schedule has been arranged in such a way that the fourth and fifth days fall on the weekend to encourage a large crowd to come over. So, measures were taken to avoid quick finishes or meandering run-fests, both of which are common when domestic teams play Ranji Trophy first-class matches here. The pitch was dressed up with patches of grass, and in between there were several bare patches. This led to some variable bounce, but crucially there was very little turn.So the three spinners - Ashwin, local boy Jadeja and Mishra - had almost nothing to work with.Since 2015, particularly at home, they have come on with a horde of close-in fielders. Slips, silly points, gullies, leg gullies, short legs. A veritable group of bandits ready to swindle the batsman of his confidence. Additionally, until now, India had batted first in six out of seven matches. That meant their bowlers were given a pitch which had been worn down by a lot of cricket, ranging from 68 to 169 overs.As a result, there had been a lot more turn to exploit. There could be awkward bounce as well. Then, factor in Ashwin and Jadejas talent for maximising natural variation. Thats a heck of a lot for a batsman to handle. The immediate thought in such a situation is: Why not get off strike? Thats easier saiid than done.dddddddddddd As former Test opener Aakash Chopra has articulated before, manoeuvring the ball into gaps on a turning pitch is very hard. Opening the face brings the slips into play. Closing the face invites the risk of being dismissed in any number of ways. Bowled by the dip, lbw while playing across the line. Caught off the leading edge.Okay, do something drastic then. Hit out. Upset their rhythm.Seems simple enough, yes. But theres a psychological deterrent - in the back of your mind, you always know a false shot might not only be the end of you but of your team too. In the final innings in Indore, New Zealand went from 80 for 2 to 138 for 9 after Ross Taylor was bowled playing an awful sweep.These are the devastating advantages of scoreboard pressure. And India had none of it in Rajkot.So Kohli, having to manufacture some, operated with in-out fields. With the lack of turn, though, Joe Root and Moeen Ali were able to nudge the ball into the gaps and keep the score ticking along. Their 179-run partnership included only 14 fours and a six - essentially 62 runs in boundaries - all the rest came via singles and twos. They still maintained a run-rate of 3.70.And when Kohli tried to bring men up to make the rotation of strike difficult, Root and Moeen deliberately went over the top and Indias captain had to go on the defensive again. It was beautifully paced cricket, with a distinct lack of frills. Only late in the day, when Root was past his hundred and Moeen was approaching his own, did they break into the toy cupboard and pull out the reverse sweeps or advance on Jadeja, he who fires them in at 90kph, and smack him into the sightscreen.In 62 overs of spin, India could manage only six maidens. Thats less than 10%.Having to bowl first, India wanted to be on the money, and preferably not the 500- or the 1000-rupee variety, which went defunct overnight and are to be replaced. There were encouraging signs. Cooks outside-edge was an affable guest star in a half-hour episode of When Shami And Umesh Bowl Well Together. Ashwin out-thought young Haseeb Hameed and Ben Duckett. India went to lunch happy despite the dropped catches.But it was England who were ahead of the game, with no scoreboard pressure on them, and faced with a pitch on which their own seamers could prove to be the danger, thanks to reverse swing and a bare patch of uneven bounce on a good length. Root and Moeen tucked into every over of spin that was bowled. One of them will return on Thursday hungry for more. ' ' '