Paris: Ekaterina Makarova reached the French Open fourth round on Friday, but wished she hadn’t.

The 26-year-old defeated best friend and Grand Slam title-winning doubles partner Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-4 — her sixth win in seven meetings with her fellow Russian.

“It’s a bad feeling. I don’t want to feel it again,” said Makarova, who won the 2013 Roland Garros doubles title with Vesnina.

“It’s so nervous. You’re kind of close. You cannot scream because we are really good friends and we don’t like to scream to each other, Come on or something. So it’s really a quiet match. Yeah, I’m not happy.”

Makarova is the Russian number two and at nine in the world is just seven spots behind illustrious compatriot Maria Sharapova.

They are also occasional Fed Cup teammates, but are really worlds apart.

Where Sharapova will conduct lengthy media interviews after each match, left-handed Moscow native Makarova was Friday shunted into Roland Garros’s smaller press conference room.

There she answered questions only in English asked by just two journalists. Not a word of Russian was spoken.

So low key is Makarova that one of the reporters even managed to get her Paris history mangled. She took that in good grace — such a faux pas aimed at Sharapova would likely attract an icy put-down.

“Here? I was in a quarter-final? Actually already someone is telling me that I was in a quarter-final. No, my best result was fourth round couple of years ago,” said Makarova.

“But I am happy that someone’s thinking that I was in the quarters here.”

Makarova has amassed over $7 million in her career and traditionally rises to the occasion of the Grand Slams. Four of her five wins over top five players have come at the majors.

This year she achieved her best run at a Grand Slam, going all the way to the Australian Open semi-finals.

She has also been a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon and the US Open.

Makarova is just one of two players never to be ranked number one in the world to have beaten both Serena and Venus Williams at a Grand Slam.

She had that distinction to herself until this French Open, when Sloane Stephens of the United States knocked out Venus in the first round.

Next up for Makarova is a fourth round duel with seventh-seeded Serb Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 champion in Paris.

They are 1-1 in their career meetings with both clashes coming at the majors — Ivanovic winning at the 2010 US Open and Makarova gaining revenge at the Australian Open the following year, taking a last-set decider 10-8.

“She’s a tough opponent definitely. She has great memories here,” said the Russian.