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UNBELIEVABLE: Jones making mark on clay as she reaches last eight - The Untold Story

Emerson Jones is aiming to be the first Aussie to win a Roland Garros junior tournament since 1968. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Rising Australian star Emerson Jones continued to justify her No.1 seeding at the French Open when she moved into the quarter-finals of the girls' singles with a straight-sets victory over Spain's Charo Esquiva Banuls.

The 16-year-old from the Gold Coast had already looked impressive on clay this week, beating Capucine Jauffret of the US, and then Czechia's Vendula Valdmannova, a Wimbledon semi-finalist last year, both in three sets.

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