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ROLAND GARROS (Paris, France; red clay; Grand Slam)
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1. Second-round scoreboard-report: Chakvetadze v Szávay
2. Third-round draw (bottom half)
3. Fourth-round draw (top half)
4. Women's Doubles: First round
5. Order of play for Saturday

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1. Second-round scoreboard-report: Chakvetadze v Szávay
(Thursday 31st May)
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+ ANNA CHAKVETADZE [9,EF] d. Ágnes Szávay [Q], 6-4 6-7 (1/7) 6-4

Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
[Dylan Thomas]

The 18-year-old Hungarian, who won the French Open 2005 Girls'
Singles & Doubles but is only ranked #102, gave Anna and me a huge
fright! With both players struggling to break serve in the first two
sets, Anna led 6-4 *5-4 when play was suspended for more than two
hours by a torrential downpour.

When play resumed, Anna failed to serve out the match, lost the
second set on a tiebreak, and looked in danger of suffering a
traumatic defeat in the fading light as she dropped serve in the
first game of the third set.

But in fact the third set went totally against serve except when Anna
held in the third game! Hardly impressive for a world #9, but they're
the matches that you have to get through, and I can only hope that
Anna will be stronger for having been in hot water and come through.


The match was scheduled fourth on Court 1, and started at 16:45 CEST.


First set
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CHAKVE _* *@* * * 6
SZÁVAY * *___* *_ 4

Szávay serving 0-0: 40/0 to 40/40. Ad Szávay. Held.

Well, at least Anna has sent a message that even at 40/0 up, it's not
going to be an easy hold for Szávay.

Anna serving 0-1: 15/0. 15/30. 40/30. Held.
Szávay serving 1-1: 40/0 to 40/40. Ad Szávay. Deuce #2. Ad Szávay.
Deuce #3. Ad Szávay. Deuce #4. Ad Szávay. Held.

I think all these squandered game-points should be preying on
Szávay's mind more than Anna's inability to break should be preying
on hers.

Anna serving 1-2: 30/0. 30/15. 40/15. Held.
Szávay serving 2-2: 0/30 to 30/30. 30/40 (BP). 40/40. Ad Szávay.
Deuce #2. Ad Anna (BP #2). Broken.

First blood to Anna, and not before time!

Anna serving 3-2: 0/15. 40/15. Held.
Szávay serving 2-4: Held to love.
Anna serving 4-3: 15/0. 15/30. 40/30. 40/40. Ad Anna. Held.

Phew! We don't want Anna getting broken back when breaks are rather
hard to come by in this set!

Szávay serving 3-5: 0/15. 40/15. 40/30. Held.

The moment of truth. Anna's had a few nerves serving for sets and
matches, and was in a little bit of trouble in her last service-game.

Anna serving 5-4: 15/0. 15/15. 40/15 (2 SPs). 40/30. Anna won the
first set 6-4 at 17:24 (39m).


Second set
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CHAKVE _* * * *@__*_ 6(1)
SZÁVAY * * * *__@*_T 7(7)

Szávay serving 0-0: 15/0. 15/15. 30/15. 30/30. 40/30. Held.
Anna serving 0-1: Held to love.
Szávay serving 1-1: 0/15. 40/15. Held.

Anna serving 1-2: 15/0. 15/15. 40/15. The scoreboard said 2-2, then
corrected itself to 40/30. 40/40. Ad Szávay (BP). Deuce #2. Ad Anna.
Deuce #3. Ad Anna. Held.

Phew! That's twice this match that the scoreboard has said that Anna
has won a game when she hasn't, and she almost went on to lose that
game!

It's a pretty tight match so far: just the one break in it (fifth
game of the first set), so whoever breaks first in the second set
should gain huge momentum.

Szávay serving 2-2: 15/0. 15/40 (2 BPs) to 40/40. Ad Szávay.
Deuce #2. Ad Szávay. Deuce #3. Ad Szávay. Held.

What a waste. The only previous game in which Anna had break-point
was the fifth game of the first set, when she did break.

She's still got a lot of work to do in this match. No clear advantage
in this set yet.

Anna serving 2-3: 15/0. 15/15. 40/15. Held.
Szávay serving 3-3: 0/30 to 40/30. 40/40. Ad Anna (BP). Deuce #2.
Ad Szávay. Deuce #3. Ad Anna (BP #2). Deuce #4. Ad Szávay. Held.

Another golden opportunity to break goes begging! :rolleyes: 0/30 and
two break points - a lot of baggage will be building up in Anna's
mind in this set, and /I/ certainly feel uneasy that my world #9 is
facing so much resistance from the #102 in the second round of a
Grand Slam.

Anna /should/ have the consistency to come through this match, but
there /are/ some doubts in my mind, especially as she hasn't been
firing on all cylinders this claycourt-season.

Anna serving 3-4: 40/0. 40/30. Held.

Phew! I thought opportunities were going begging on Anna's own serve
that time!

Szávay serving 4-4: 0/15. With Anna potentially 7 points away from
victory, play was suspended for rain at 18:10 on Court Suzanne
Lenglen Court (what BBCi were showing), but it seems that we only had
a very short delay on Court 1, as the scoreboard updated again at
18:13: 30/40 (BP). 40/40. Now play really /is/ suspended (at 18:15).
I imagine what happened is that they stopped for a lengthy discussion
at 18:10, decided to play on at 18:13, and officially suspended play
at 40/40 (18:15).

At 18:18, the scoreboard updated again to say that Anna had broken
for 5-4 (at last!), and that we are in a rain-delay (the first time
that the scoreboard has actually said this). I can see on my TV-
screen that the rain is very heavy on Court Lenglen now, so I guess
Anna will have a long time to contemplate having to come back out and
serve for the match!

Sam Smith: "We thought it was only going to be a light shower, but
it's turned into a tropical storm like we've never seen before!"

She added that there was no prospect of play until at least 19:00
CEST.

Play resumed at 20:19 CEST (2h04m rain-delay).

Sam Smith: "Amazing that they brought the players back at this late
hour, even though the light is /terrible/."

Anna serving 5-4: 0/15. 30/15. 30/40 (BP). Broken.

Back to square one for Anna! :-( Breaks have been very hard to come
by in this match, so Anna only has a 50% chance of winning this set,
I think.

Szávay serving 5-5: Held to love.

And Anna has to serve again with minimum respite, this time to save
the set.

Anna serving 5-6: Held to love.

6-6 Tiebreak (all scores Chakvetadze/Szávay): 0/0*. *0/1. *0/2. 0/3*.
0/4*. *0/5. *0/6 (6 SPs). 1/6*. Szávay won the second set 7-6 (7/1)
at 20:33 (3h09m gross, 1h05m net).

I wish they'd suspend this match for the day right now, because it's
becoming more and more difficult for the players to see in the fading
light (according to Sam Smith, commentating on Kuznetsova v
Shaughnessy), and I can imagine Anna being very upset by her change
of fortune since the resumption.


Third set
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CHAKVE _@*@ @ @ @ 6
SZÁVAY @___@ @ @_ 4

Anna serving 0-0: 0/30. 15/30. 15/40 (2 BPs). Broken.

Anna will have to dig deep to get out of this one alive - from a
break down in the third set. She's only broken Szávay twice in this
match, and the failing light must make it that much more difficult
for the receiver to see the serve.

Szávay serving 1-0: 0/40 (3 BPs). 15/40. Broken.

Yay! Now we're back on serve, with Anna having the advantage of
serving first! :-)

Anna serving 1-1: 15/0. 15/15. 40/15. 40/30. Held.
Szávay serving 1-2: 15/0. 15/40 (2 BPs). 30/40. Broken.

Two breaks in a row to Anna - what a turnaround, and what a relief!

Anna serving 3-1: 30/0 to 30/30. 40/30. 40/40. Ad Szávay (BP). Broken.

Pegged back from 30/0 and 40/30, and broken! Anna is going to be so
traumatised if she goes on to lose this one. :-( But at least she has
the advantage of serving first.

Szávay serving 2-3: 0/30 -> 30/30. 30/40 (BP). Broken.

Phew! At 30/30 it looked like Anna was letting yet another
opportunity go begging!

Anna serving 4-2: 15/0. 15/40 (2 BPs). Broken.

Anna's torments continue, and this match has degenerated into break-
and-counterbreak.

This next game is hugely important. After it, either Anna will be
serving for the match at *5-3, or it will be *4-4 and anybody's match.

Szávay serving 3-4: 15/0. 15/40 (2 BPs). 30/40. Broken.

And serve for the match she will! Can she succeed where she failed at
6-4 *5-4? There've been five breaks in a row now.

Anna serving 5-3: 0/15. 15/15. 15/30. 30/30. 30/40 (BP). Broken.

Six breaks in a row now. It's not pretty, but if Anna can just make
it seven, she'll be home and hosed, and be able to put this nightmare
behind her - it certainly /would/ be a traumatic nightmare if she
lost now after all the chances she's had.

Szávay serving 4-5: 15/0. 15/15. 30/15. 30/30. 40/30. 40/40.
Ad Anna (MP #1). Anna won 6-4 6-7 (1/7) 6-4 at 21:14 (third set 41m;
match 4h29m gross, 2h25m net).


Statistics
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Anna got 66% of first serves in, winning 60% of the points when she
did so, and 53% on second serve - disappointing statistics,
particularly in the third set (won 40% on first serve, 30% on second
serve).

The corresponding percentages for Szávay were 56%, 63% and 44% - she
too had woeful winning-percentages in the third set (first serve 33%,
second serve 31%).

Szávay served 4 aces, but a monstrous 10 double faults (7 coming in
the second set), while Anna served one ace and no DFs.

W:UE ratios were abysmal for both girls: Anna 8:52 (including 24 UEs
in the second set), Szávay 10:53 (28 UEs in the second set).

Anna won 9 of 18 points at the net (she didn't come into the net at
all in the first set), while Szávay was more selective and
successful, winning 10 of 15 points at the net.

Anna broke 7 times from 18 break-points (once each in the first two
sets, 5 times in the third), Szávay 5 times from 6 BPs (once in the
second set, 4 times in the third). It could have been so much easier
if Anna had taken more than one of the 8 BPs she had in the second
set.

In points, Anna won 117-114 (first set 38-34, second set 47-51, third
set 32-29).

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2. Third-round draw (bottom half)
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* ANA IVANOVIC [7,DF] v Ioana Raluca Olaru [Q] (ajde Ana!)
* DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [12,EF] v ANABEL MEDINA GARRIGUES [24] (podme
Daniela!)
* SHAHAR PE'ER [15] v KATARINA SREBOTNIK [17] (both nice; my loyalty
is to Shahar)
* Dominika Cibulková [Q] v SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA [3] (podme Dominika!)

* LUCIE ŠAFÁROVÁ [25,DF] v AMÉLIE MAURESMO [5] (pojdme Lucie!)
* ANNA CHAKVETADZE [9,EF] v AI SUGIYAMA [21] (davai Anna!)
* PATTY SCHNYDER [14] v Karin Knapp
* MARIA SHARAPOVA [2,EF] v Alla Kudryavtseva [Q] (davai Maria!)

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3. Fourth-round draw (top half)
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* JUSTINE HENIN [1] v SYBILLE BAMMER [20]
* DINARA SAFINA [10] v SERENA WILLIAMS [8]
* MARION BARTOLI [18,S] v JELENA JANKOVIC [4] (allez Marion!)
* NICOLE VAIDIŠOVÁ [6,EF] v TATHIANA GARBIN [19] (pojdme Nicole!)

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4. Women's Doubles: First round (Friday 1st June)
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- Anna Chakvetadze [EF]/Victoria Azarenka lt.
Klaudia Jans/Alicja Rosolska, 4-6 3-6

Doubles isn't the strongest part of Anna's career, to put it mildly.
When I watched her play doubles at Eastbourne 2006, she was always
looking behind her to watch her partner hit the ball.

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5. Order of play for Saturday
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Court Suzanne Lenglen (start 11:00 CEST = 09:00 GMT = 10:00 BST)
1. WS 3r: ANA IVANOVIC [7,DF] v Ioana Raluca Olaru [Q]
2. WS 3r: ANNA CHAKVETADZE [9,EF] v AI SUGIYAMA [21]
3. MS 3r: MARCOS BAGHDATIS [16] v Ján Hájek
4. MS 3r: NOVAK ĐOKOVIC [6] v Olivier Patience [WC]

Full order of play:
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/schedule/

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