PARIS — Form on one side, a free-for-all on the other.

Heading into the quarterfinals of the French Open, the men’s draw includes all the usual suspects — Djokovic, Nadal, Federer — while the names on the women’s bracket look as if they’ve been picked out of a hat.

One of the few familiar faces over there belongs to Maria Sharapova, but even the No. 2 seed struggled to look like she belonged on a wind-whipped Monday at Roland Garros.

She struggled to a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2 victory over 44th-ranked Klara Zakopalova, a match in which Sharapova lost her serve nine times, bickered on and off with the chair umpire, hurt her wrist ever so slightly and lost her footing and fell backward onto the moist red clay.

“A combination of everything,” she said, explaining her struggles during the 3 hour, 11 minute match.

Sharapova said her right wrist, slightly jammed when she tried to handle a Zakopalova serve into her body, was no problem. And despite all the trouble, when the match was over, her path to a title and the last piece of the career Grand Slam couldn’t have looked much clearer. Her next match is against 23rd-seeded Kaia Kanepi.