Make that three in a row for Garbine Muguruza…

The 22-year-old Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round to advance to the quarterfinals of the French Open for a third straight year.

The array of shots and maturity the No. 4 seed deployed in an intensely fought 6-3, 6-4 win against the 2009 champion strengthened the argument that Muguruza could soon be challenging Serena Williams for the top spot in women’s tennis.

Muguruza started at lightning pace, serving an ace with her first and third balls. In the last game, she stayed cool during five match points to finish off the 13th-seeded Russian.

Standing in the way of her second semifinal at a Grand Slam tournament is Shelby Rogers. The 108th-ranked American who’d never made it out of the third round at a major beat Irina-Camelia Begu 6-3, 6-4. The Romanian, seeded No. 25, is the third seeded player to fall to Shelby in her march to the quarterfinals.