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ROLAND GARROS (Paris, France; red clay; Grand Slam)
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1. Third-round scoreboard-report: Chakvetadze v Sugiyama
2. Fourth-round draw
3. Order of play for Sunday

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1. Third-round scoreboard-report: Chakvetadze v Sugiyama
(Saturday 2nd June)
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+ ANNA CHAKVETADZE [9,EF] d. AI SUGIYAMA [21], 6-4 6-4

Again, it was a case of Anna holding serve reliably until she had to
serve for the match at 6-4 *5-3, when she was broken. Fortunately
there was no repeat of the second-round scare, where she was taken to
a third set after failing to serve it out!

The match started at 12:30 CEST, and had to compete for my attention
with the televised Šafárová v Mauresmo match which started a few
minutes later, and later with live scores for Daniela Hantuchová.


First set
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CHAKVETA * * *@__*@ 6
SUGIYAMA _* *__@*__ 4

Anna serving 0-0: 0/30. 15/30. 30/30. 40/30. 40/40. Ad Anna. Held.
Sugiyama serving 0-1: 40/0. Held.
Anna serving 1-1: 30/0. 30/30. 40/30. Held.
Sugiyama serving 1-2: 0/15. 30/15. 30/40 (BP). 40/40. Ad Sugiyama.
Held.
Anna serving 2-2: 0/15. 15/15. 30/30. 30/40 (BP). 40/40.
Ad Sugiyama (BP). Deuce #2. Ad Anna. Held.
Sugiyama serving 2-3: 0/30. 15/30. 15/40 (2 BPs). 30/40. Broken.
Anna serving 4-2: 0/40 (3 BPs). Broken.
Sugiyama serving 3-4: 15/15. 30/30. 40/30. 40/40. Ad Sugiyama.
Deuce #2. Ad Sugiyama. Held.
Anna serving 4-4: 0/15. 15/15. 15/40 (2 BPs) to 40/40. Ad Anna. Held.

Well recovered from 15/40!

Sugiyama serving 4-5: 15/0. 15/30. 30/30. 30/40 (SP #1). Anna won the
first set 6-4 at 13:11 (41m).


Second set
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CHAKVETA * * * *@ @ 6
SUGIYAMA _* * *__@_ 4

Anna serving 0-0: 15/15. 15/30. 30/30. 40/30. Held.
Sugiyama serving 0-1: 0/15. 30/15. Held.
Anna serving 1-1: 15/0. 15/15. 30/30. 40/30. Held.
Sugiyama serving 1-2: 40/0. Held.
Anna serving 2-2: 30/0. 30/15. 30/15. 40/30. Held.
Sugiyama serving 2-3: 0/30. 15/30. 30/30. 30/40 (BP). 40/40.
Ad Sugiyama. Held.
Anna serving 3-3: 0/15. 15/15. 30/30. Held.
Sugiyama serving 3-4: 0/40 (3 BPs). Broken.
Anna serving 5-3: 0/15. 15/15. 15/30. 30/40 (BP). Broken.
Sugiyama serving 4-5: 15/15. 15/40 (2 MPs). Anna won 6-4 6-4 at 13:53
(second set 42m, match 1h23m).

This sets up a mouthwatering fourth-round match with Lucie Šafárová,
whom I'm contemplating inducting into my Eternal Fanship after her
fantastic win over Amélie Mauresmo, which I saw on BBCi.

Passion and Reason are needed to induct a player into my Eternal
Fanship. For Lucie I have Reason, but I need to be convinced about
the Passion. So it's great that she's playing Anna, for whom I have a
lot of Passion. This match should help to clarify my feelings for
Lucie, especially if she wins - which I suspect she will, with Anna
not firing on all cylinders this claycourt-season, and Lucie having
played so brilliantly to beat Mauresmo.

My loyalty is to Anna - she's the one who's in my Eternal Fanship,
after all - but I don't think I'd mind her losing to Lucie after what
Lucie did to Mauresmo! ;-)


Patty Schnyder's press-conference
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I found some interesting news about Anna:

Q. I saw your husband clearly being Chakvetadze's coach the other day.

PATTY SCHNYDER: Yeah.

Q. You know, the draw is shaping up. There is a possibility. Does
this make things tricky for you?

PATTY SCHNYDER: Not really. I mean, I know he's my husband and my
coach. And so if it would be a match against Anna, all of us know
what he's doing and who he's rooting for. So there is no point for me
to worry in any stage.

Q. How did that all come about?

PATTY SCHNYDER: It was a long time ago. We did it just, yeah, behind
the scenes or whatever you call it, in the background. And she was
always wanting him to do it, but he never wanted to do it officially.

And we'll see what's going to work out. And she's always, yeah,
together with her dad. So we have to see how things work out. But I
don't want to be too much involved in it. And I like Anna, and maybe
we do some workouts together and hit sometimes, very few. But, yeah,
better ask him.

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2. Fourth-round draw
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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!)

* ANA IVANOVIC [7,DF] v ANABEL MEDINA GARRIGUES [24] (ajde Ana!)
* SHAHAR PE'ER [15] v SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA [3] (kadima Shahar!)
* ANNA CHAKVETADZE [9,EF] v LUCIE ŠAFÁROVÁ [25,DF] (both nice; my
loyalty is to Anna)
* MARIA SHARAPOVA [2,EF] v PATTY SCHNYDER [14] (davai Maria!)

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3. Order of play for Sunday (Anna-filtered)
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Court 1 (start 11:00 CEST = 09:00 GMT = 10:00 BST)
1. WS 4r: TATHIANA GARBIN [19] v NICOLE VAIDIŠOVÁ [6,EF]
2. WS 4r: SHAHAR PE'ER [15] v SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA [3]
3. WS 4r: ANA IVANOVIC [7] v ANABEL MEDINA GARRIGUES [24]
4. WS 4r: ANNA CHAKVETADZE [9,EF] v LUCIE ŠAFÁROVÁ [25,DF]

I hate the way they play all the women's fourth-round matches on
Sunday, leaving only half the men's fourth round to be played on
Monday! :-||

At least that will give me a much-needed rest and catch-up day before
the quarter-finals (which are guaranteed to feature either Anna or
Lucie). It's been a very hectic first week for me, and my players
have done better than I expected, given that they were all injured in
the lead-up to the French Open!


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

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