PARIS, June 4 (Reuters) - Stefanos Tsitsipas stepped up his bid for an elusive first Grand Slam title as the Greek fifth seed dismantled Austrian qualifier Sebastian Ofner 7-5 6-3 6-0 on Sunday to book his place in the French Open quarter-finals.
Tsitsipas, who has only dropped one set in his four matches, will face his biggest test when he meets world number one Carlos Alcaraz in the last eight.
The Court Suzanne Lenglen crowd began a Mexican wave in the third set and Ofner soon found himself trailing 5-0 as the world number 118 struggled to deal with the Tsitsipas tsunami.
He was finally put out of his misery by the Greek who closed out the victory on serve.
Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Paris, editing by Pritha SarkarOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons:
Tsitsipas, Sebastian Ofner, Novak Djokovic, Roland Garros, Carlos Alcaraz, Marcelo Filippini, Suzanne Lenglen, Ofner, Shrivathsa Sridhar, Pritha Sarkar
Organizations:
Austrian, Serbian, January's, Thomson
Locations:
Paris, Mexican