Player of the Day: Siegemund moves into Week 2

Each day of Roland Garros Baseline will highlight one player's efforts for a job well done.

Good things take time: Laura Siegemund has made the fourth round of a major for the first time since turning pro in 2006. At Roland Garros on Saturday, the 32-year-old ousted No. 13-seeded Petra Martic, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0.

"Now I'm playing well on clay in Paris, and I knew I have that ability, but you have to create opportunities and then you have to take them also and make them," she told press. "That's what I'm doing. It feels like it could have come earlier, but it's now.

"And I'm a granny now. But I'm appreciating it a lot."

The German had made the third round of a Grand Slam before, at the Australian Open and US Open back in 2016. So far in Paris, she has taken out Kristina Mladenovic, Julia Goeges and now Martic, and will face unseeded Paula Badosa on Monday.

Siegemund was part of an early round controversy when her double bounce against Mladenovic wasn't called correctly. The world No. 66 would come back from a 5-1 deficit to win that match in straight sets.

Now she's on the verge of her first career Grand Slam quarterfinal. She's fully focused on her singles game after she and partner Vera Zvonareva retired midway through their second-round match.

Fast Facts

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Singles titles she has won in her career, in Stuttgart in 2017 and Bastad in 2016

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Doubles titles she has won, including the 2020 US Open with Zvonareva

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Her career-high ranking achieved in August 2016