Day 1 started off with defending womens champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova taking the court against Sorana Cirstea. Cirstea who was a solid top 30 player, but has been struggling all this year jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead, but the "Kuz" seemed to settle in and take the next 6 games to win the first set 6-3. The 2nd set was all Kuznetsova as she took the 2nd set and match 6-1.
Robin Soderling the mens runner up last year also was in action. He cruised to a 6-0, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Laurent Recouderc.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had a major scare on Sunday as young German, Daniel Brands pushed the Frenchman to 5 sets. Tsonga didn't play his best, but it was enough to squeak out a 5 set victory 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-7, 7-5.
There was a few upsets on day one, and the most surprising was womens #10 seed Victoria Azarenka getting smashed by Gisela Dulko 6-1, 6-2....#20 womens seed Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, a player who won a WTA premier event just a couple weeks ago couldn't get her game going, losing to Akgul Ammanmuradova 6-2, 6-4...Ernests Gulbis was upset when he had to retire in his match against Julien Benneteau. Gulbis was starting to crack into his high upside and was a darkhorse to do a lot of damage in this tournament, but that all came to an end when he slid on the clay late in the 2nd set and when he slid he lost his balance and did the splits. Well that didn't suit too well and immediately he cringed and reached at his groin. Gulbis tried to continue playing but after only a few games he had to throw in the towel losing by the score of 4-6, 2-6, 0-1 (ret.)
Other mens seeded winners on Sunday were: Marin Cilic, Mikhail Youzhny, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, and Albert Montanes.
Other womens seeded winners were: Aravane Rezai, Venus "penis" Williams, Flavia Pennetta, Maria Kirilenko, Dominika Cibulkova, and Nadia Petrova.
Dear Venus,
Your black and red neglige looking tennis outfit isn't cute nor sexy. You look like a flat chested cross dresser in it. Dude, quit trying to draw more attention to yourself.
And after just a few hours, I can already tell ESPN's tennis coverage is going to suck royal ass.
And with that the match of the day award goes to a couple of jobbers. Michael Yani of the United States and Lukas Lacko of Slovakia battled for 4 and a half hours and there still was no winner. The match was called at 8-8 in the 5th set. The scoreboard read this as it was halted due to darkness. 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 7-6, 8-8. The match will be completed Monday on court 17. Do you think ESPN took any time to show any of this marathon? Shit no, they were too busy re-showing matches already completed earlier in the day....assholes.
Preview for Monday (Day 2) of the French Open.
#1 seeds Roger Federer and Serena Williams are both in action on Monday. Big named high seeded players like Caroline Wozniacki, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Jelena Jankovic, and Elena Dementieva will also start their tournaments on Day 2.
Matches to watch will be the conclusion of the Yani-Lacko match, also Andy Murray vs. Richard Gasquet. A good womens matchup to watch will be Samantha Stosur vs. Simona Halep, just to see what kind of form Stosur is in since she is the winningest woman on clay so far this season, and also a good reason to check out this match is to see what Halep looks like since having her breasts "lopped" off.
Upset picks of the day: Viktor Troicki to defeat #21 seed Tommy Robredo on the mens side and Vera Dushevina to take out #27 seeded Alona Bondarenko on the womens side.
Look for a review of Day 2 and preview of Day 3 on Monday evening.
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