Last year’s French Open Roland Garros finalist, the No. 2 seeded Ana Ivanovic, is well on her way to another great tournament at Stade Roland Garros. The Serbian beauty hopes this year will be the year, she finally claims that elusive first Grand Slam title. In this 2008 French Open women’s quarterfinals, Ivanovic fill face another solid clay-court player, the 10th seeded from Switzerland, the left-handed Patty Schnyder. Ana Ivanovic is a -600 betting odds favorite against Patty Schnyder (+375) in the 2008 French Open Roland Garros Women’s Quarterfinals brought to you by BodogLife.com.

After 4 French Open women’s rounds in the books, both of these ladies come in with a lot of momentum, and very well prepared for their Tuesday June 3rd 2008 showdown. 

Ana Ivanovic is coming off a very impressive 4th round straight set win (6-0, 6-0) over Petra Cetkovska. Patty Schnyder is also coming off a strong fourth round straight set (6-2, 6-2) victory over Katarina Srebotnik.

Ivanovic’s posses quite a repertoire of shots, but her strengths are indeed her service, forehand, and backhand. While her opponent, Schnyder, strengths are her mobility on clay, and her topspin cross-court forehand. These two players have met plenty of times in the past. Even though the young Swiss has won their head-to-head match-ups 4-3, most of them were played when the Serb was inexperienced early on in her professional career. And thus, their last three matches have been won by Ivanovic, with two of them having been played on the red clay.

In other 2008 French Open R.G. Women’s quarterfinals, is the match-up between Jelena Jankovic vs. Carla Suarez Navarro. BodogLife.com has Jelena Jankovic a -500 betting odds favorite to win against Carla Suarez Navarro (+330).    

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