French Open: Sunday 25 May to Sunday 8 June
Coverage: BBC TV, BBCi, Radio 5 Live and the BBC Sport website.
Third seed Novak Djokovic made short work of home favourite Paul-Henri Mathieu to reach the quarter-finals of the French Open.
The Serbian broke once in the first set and saved four break points in the second on his way to a 6-4 6-3 6-4 win.
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Two die in Mauritanian gun battle ... Gulbis, the only Latvian ever to play in a Grand Slam.
The highly-rated 19-year-old was rarely troubled en route to a 6-4 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 win over France's Michael Llodra.
Reigning champion Rafael Nadal is scheduled to face fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco later on Sunday.
Gulbis's previous best Grand Slam performance had been a run to the fourth round at the 2007 US Open.
In Paris, he has already defeated Germany's Simon Greul, American seventh seed James Blake and Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti.
His thumping serve and powerful groundstrokes have encouraged many to tip Gulbis as a dark horse for the title.
Llodra, one of five Frenchmen to reach the last 16, struggled to match Gulbis's impressive all-court game and, despite saving a match point in the eighth game of the third set, he was powerless in the next as the Latvian took victory.
(BBC)
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