Well ESPN managed to not F up the coverage of the matches today...thats right, they didn't show any matches today. Must of been Chris McKendry's day for botox, so "killer" Cahill, BG, and the rest of the crew couldn't go on. Or maybe they were helping with the injections, who knows.
The match of the day had to be the Andy Murray - Richard Gasquet face off. Gasquet came out tough taking it to Murray, and getting a 2 sets to love lead. Then Gasquet seemed to fade off and start day dreaming about doing coke off some sluts boobs in Miami, and dancing with more whores in Romania. His leg also started to bother him, and he grabbed at his stomach like he was getting cramps. Gasquet just can't hang with the big boys, and when Murray saw Gasquet laboring he took the 3rd set and easily won the 4th and 5th sets... check my blog from yesterday, told you this was going to be a good one.
The jobber marathon match between Michael Yani and Lukas Lacko finally came to an end today. Lacko won the match when he took the 5th and final set 12-10. The final score was 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 7-6, 12-10. The 71 total games is a French Open record.
Now lets take a look at how the womens seeds faired today: Caroline Wozniacki crushed Alla Kudryavtseva...Serena Williams got off to a slow start, but still beat Stefanie Voegele in straight sets...#11 seed Na Li advanced....Jelena Jankovic had no troubles with Alicia Molik...Elena Dementieva advanced easily....Both of the "Flying Bondarenko Sisters" won their matches today...Radwanska beat Baltacha...Lucie Safarova, Sam Stosur, Alexandr Dulgheru, Francesca Schiavone, and Alisa Kleybanova all advanced...and overrated American, Melanie Oudin got bounced in straight sets by Anabel Medina Garrigues.
There were no major upsets on the womens side today, all the seeds won their matches.
Although there was no upsets on the womens side, there was a couple on the mens side. Feliciano Lopez the #27 seed not only lost, but got his ass handed to himself by German, Julian Reister. Lopez probably had other things on his mind, like whether his ex wife was banging Cristiano Ronaldo again, or possibly he was worried about his next modeling shoot... The other upset was one that I called yesterday, and it was Viktor Troicki taking out the #21 seed Tommy Robredo.
All the other seeds won their matches, and that includes: Roger Federer, Gael Monfils, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Thomaz Bellucci, Stanislas Wawrinka, Fernando Gonzalez, Ivan Ljubicic, Marcos Baghdatis, Victor Hanescu, John Isner, Nicolas Almagro, and Tomas Berdych.
Preview for Day 3 (Tuesday):
Day 3 wraps up the first round for both the men and women. Also the womens doubles starts on Tuesday as well.
So that means big names like Henin, Nadal, Roddick, Safina, Sharapova, Verdasco, and Ferrer will be featured on the bigger courts.
A couple matches to keep your eye on will be the Roddick - Nieminen and the Safina vs. Date-Krumm matches. Just to see how well Andy Roddick will play coming off of a injury and ailment, and having no time to play in a clay court tuneup event. Also watch to see how healthy Safina is playing, and if she is even going in the right direction to finding her form from a year ago.
Like Monday, Tuesday will probably not bring too many upsets if any. I don't see any of the mens seeds losing their matches, but I do like one upset on the womens side. Get out your pen and paper, write it down: Alize Cornet will beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Cornet has been playing some decent tennis this past month and Pavlyuchenkova is coming off of a injury. This is a perfect recipe for the number 29 seed Pavlyuchenkova to fall.
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