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Day 6 recap: Sharapova, seeds advance, Monfils mounts comeback

Maria Sharapova beats Sam Stosur, Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka Cruise, Alize Cornet gets an emotional win and more results from Day 6 at the French Open.
Courtney Nguyen|
Day 6 recap: Sharapova, seeds advance, Monfils mounts comeback
Day 6 recap: Sharapova, seeds advance, Monfils mounts comeback

PARIS – Catch up on the news and results from Day 6 at the French Open in Paris.

Maria Sharapova fights through the wind to beat Sam Stosur: You rarely see Sharapova get emotional after early round wins, regardless of whether it's a Slam or not. But playing while under the weather, in tough conditions, with a tough draw, the Russian has looked more relieved than happy after her first three wins. On Friday she came through what could have been a very difficult match against No. 26 seed Sam Stosur, winning 6–3, 6–4. After finally sealing the match on her third match point, Sharapova pumped her fists and took a long look at her coaching box. Is she dealing with more than just a cold? Her reactions have been one of a woman who is winning matches she's not sure she's supposed to win.  

French Open 2015 Fashion Hits and Misses

MISS: Lucas Pouille, Nick Kyrgios, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Mahesh Bhupathi

The kit is actually fine. But so many young players are wearing it that it feels like a team uniform.

HIT: Alize Cornet

HIT: Madison Keys

Ana Ivanovic

HIT: Kei Nishikori

HIT: Eugenie Bouchard

MISS: Rafael Nadal

The blue looks great against the red clay but did he really need *that* much blue?

HIT: Ana Ivanovic

HIT: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

HIT: Tomas Berdych

HIT: Novak Djokovic

HIT: Richard Gasquet

HIT: David Goffin

HIT: Jack Sock

MISS: Teresa Torro Flor

MISS: Stan Wawrinka

The shorts are so shocking they actually distract from the 70s-inspired polo.

HIT: Marin Cilic

MISS: Fabio Fognini

The Hawaii-themed headband doesn't quite make sense.

HIT: Gael Monfils

HIT: Roger Federer

HIT: Roger Federer

HIT: Maria Sharapova

HIT: Caroline Wozniacki

MISS: Victoria Azarenka

Love the shorts! Hate the one-note color.

HIT: Julia Goerges

HIT: Elina Svitolina

HIT: Carla Suarez Navarro

HIT: Garbine Muguruza

HIT: Angelique Kerber

HIT: Serena Williams

Serena Williams

HIT: Petra Kvitova

HIT: Kristina Mladenovic

HIT: Simona Halep

Fabio Fognini

HIT: Alize Lim

MISS: Sloane Stephens

The peach color is a little washed out. Would have loved to see it in bolder tones.

Borna Coric

Nick Kyrgios

Bernard Tomic

HIT: Simone Bolelli

HIT: Andy Murray

HIT: Venus Williams

MISS: Kaia Kanepi

Those socks!

HIT: Heather Watson

HIT: Dominic Thiem

MISS: Agnieszka Radwanska

Sadly we never got to see this disco ball on a sunny day.

MISS: Taro Daniel

Those shoulders.

HIT: Roberta Vinci

MISS: Karin Knapp

Worst women's dress of the year?

HIT: Sam Stosur

HIT: Luca Vanni

HIT: Yanina Wickmayer

HIT: Amandine Hesse

MISS: Diego Schwartzman

Did a red sock sneak its way into the laundry?

HIT: Ajla Tomljanovic

​Gael Monfils breathes life into the men's tournament as three Frenchmen advance: Monfils looked like he was going to be the odd man out after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga moved through in three sets over Pablo Andujar and Gilles Simon advanced with a five-set win over Nicolas Mahut. Monfils found himself two-sets to one down to No. 21 Pablo Cuevas and trailing by a double-break at 1-4 down in the fourth. But as Cuevas got nervous closing out the match, the partisan crowd out on Court Suzanne Lenglen woke up. So did Monfils. He went on to win five straight games to force a fifth set. As the crowd broke out into a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise, you knew you were witnessing something special. Monfils rode the wave of energy to the finish line, winning 4-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. Incroyable!

Minimal carnage as the seeds make it through: The higher seeds won nearly all the matches. The only upsets of the day came when No. 28 Flavia Pennetta routined No. 8 Carla Suarez Navarro 6-3, 6-4, No. 21 Garbine Muguruza, a quarterfinalist last year, upended No. 11 Angelique Kerber 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 and No. 74 Teymuraz Gabashvili beat No. 43 Lukas Rosol in straight sets to advance to the fourth round. He'll play Kei Nishikori next.

No. 2 Roger Federer, No. 4 Tomas Berdych, and No. 8 Stan Wawrinka  advanced for the men. No. 7 Ana Ivanovic, No. 9 Ekaterina Makarova, No. 13 Lucie Safarova, No. 19 Elina Svitolina, and No. 29 Alize Cornet all advanced into the second week. 

Here's how the bottom half of the women's draw shapes up Sunday: Ivanovic vs. Makarova, Svitolina vs. Cornet, Muguruza vs. Pennetta, and Sharapova vs. Safarova.

For the men's bottom half it will be Nishikori vs. Gabashvili, Tsonga vs. Berdych, Wawrinka vs. Simon, and Monfils vs. Federer. 

Alize Cornet puts on a show and advances to week two: The Frenchwoman is into the fourth round of her home Slam for the first time in her career after beating Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 4–6, 6–3, 7–5. It was an...emotional affair. We'll let the GIFs do the talking:

Security has been stepped up around Federer: Probably won't get a selfie amongst that pack of guards, kids. 

#https://vine.co/v/ebxUDxZvl6Z

​​(h/t For The Win)

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SNAPSHOTS FROM DAY 6

French Open Day 6

Alize Cornet

Andy Murray, Amelie Mauresmo

Alize Cornet

Cornet d. Lucic-Baroni 4–6, 6–3, 7–5.

Ana Ivanovic

Ivanovic d. Vekic 6–0, 6–3.

Lucie Safarova

Elina Svitolina

Svitolina d. Beck 6–3, 2–6, 6–4.

Richard Gasquet

After their match was suspended for light on Thursday, Gasquet d. Berlocq.

Lukas Rosol

Rosol lost to Teymuraz Babashvili 6–4, 6–4, 6–4.

Richard Gasquet

Ana Ivanovic

Alize Cornet

Alize Cornet

Elina Svitolina

Alize Cornet

Annika Beck

Bastian Schweinsteiger (R)

Donna Vekic

Ana Ivanovic

Federer and Dzumhur

Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova

Gilles Simon

Damir Dzumhur

Federer and Dzumhur

Stan Wawrinka

Nicolas Mahut

Gilles Simon

Nicolas Mahut

Roger Federer

Gael Monfils

Pablo Andujar

Gael Monfils

Tomas Berdych

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Gael Monfils

Roger Federer

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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