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Tennis star Novak Djokovic, the 2016 champion, is through to a record 12th French Open quarter-final.
The 20 seed did this in straight-set over Spain's Fernando Verdasco, at 6-3 6-4 6-2.
The 31-year-old Serb,12-time Grand Slam champion, will play Marco Cecchinato in the last eight after the Italian upset Belgian eighth seed David Goffin.
The fmr world number one has dropped down the rankings to 22nd after taking time off with an elbow injury after last year's Wimbledon.
Should Djokovic beats Cecchinato he will meet either German second seed Alexander Zverev or Austrian seventh seed Dominic Thiem, with possible face off with 10-time champion Rafael Nadal - a rematch of the 2012 and 2014 finals - until the final.
Djokovic made a slow start in a one-hour opening set, which took longer than the entire match between American Sloane Stephens and Estonia's Anett Kontaveit that had preceded it on Court Philippe Chatrier.
Courtesy of the BBC
