Maria Sharapova would have been a favourite to win the 2008 French Open given her status as the world no. 1.
After all, she had just won her third ever Grand Slam title by beating Ana Ivanovic in the Australian Open final at the beginning of the year.
Wins over Evgeniya Rodina, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Karin Knapp in the opening three rounds at Roland Garros set her up for success.
But a fourth round meeting with fellow Russian Dinara Safina would see her run come to a surprise end in Paris.
Sharapova narrowly won the first set 7-6 [8-6] and then came within touching distance of a fourth French Open quarter-final.
She had a match point when 5-3 up in the second set but didn’t take her chance as Safina fought back to deliver a tiebreak
Once again, Sharapova was leading against her compatriot before she squandered a 5-2 lead to miss out on an appearance in the last eight.
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A testing third set would decide the match and in the sixth game, it seemed the pressure was beginning to increase when trailing 3-2.
Sharapova rescued herself at 40-30 down whilst serving to bring the score to deuce, and screamed towards the crowd: “Allez [Go on]!”