Ostapenko raced past Putintseva 6-2, 6-3 in 68 minutes while Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, moved into the quarterfinals after an ailing No.17 seed Anna Kalinskaya retired from their Centre Court match due to a right wrist injury.
Leander Paes and Jelena Ostapenko were thoroughly outplayed by Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the second-round match.
Up next for Kvitova will be the winner of the match between China's Yafan Wang and Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
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"I don't know if there was any luck for me tonight -- I just had to work for every point," Williams said.
Ostapenko, who recently clinched the French Open title, is at the gateway to the top 10 after rocketing 35 places to 12th.
Now that the 20-year-old Ostapenko has one Slam under her belt, she is hungry for more.
Ostapenko, 20, is the first unseeded player to lift the Roland Garros title in the Open era.
