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1. First-round scoreboard-report: Hantuchová v Kostanic Tošic
2. Second-round draw (bottom half)
3. Third-round draw (top half)
4. Order of play for Thursday

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1. First-round scoreboard-report: Hantuchová v Kostanic Tošic
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+ DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [12,EF] d. Jelena Kostanic Tošic, 6-3 6-1

Daniela dropped serve in the first game of the match, but then turned
in a very impressive display to cruise to an easy victory, winning
the last six games of the match.


First set
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HANTUCHO _@* * *@* 6
KOSTANIC @__* *___ 3

The match started at 12:32 CEST.

Daniela serving 0-0: 0/30. 15/30. 15/40 (2 BPs). 30/40. Broken.
Kostanic serving 1-0: 0/15. 30/15. 30/30. 40/40. Ad Daniela (BP).
Broken.
Daniela serving 1-1: 15/0. Held.
Kostanic serving 1-2: 30/0. 30/30... I have to concentrate on Maria
Sharapova's match right now, because it's reached a vital stage of
the second set, which Maria is actually in danger of losing (Emilie
Loit served for the second set at 6-5, but Maria won it on a
tiebreak).

Kostanic serving 2-3: 0/15. 40/15. Held.
Daniela serving 3-3: 30/15. 30/40 (BP). 40/40. Ad Kostanic. Deuce #2.
Ad Daniela. Held.
Kostanic serving 3-4: 30/0. 30/15. 40/30. 40/40. Ad Daniela (BP).
Deuce #2. Ad Daniela (BP #2). Broken.

Maria just won, so this match now has my undivided attention.

Daniela serving 5-3: 30/0 to 30/30. 40/30 (SP). Daniela won the first
set 6-3 at 13:08 (36m).

My TV is now showing Safin v Tipsarevic on Court Suzanne Lenglen, and
I can see that it is raining quite heavily now (at least on that
court).

Barry Davies: "It's quite possible to play in this kind of weather on
clay, provided it doesn't get any harder."


Second set
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HANTUCHO _*@*@*@ 6
KOSTANIC *______ 1

Kostanic serving 0-0: The scoreboard said that play was suspended
when it wasn't, so I didn't see by what score Kostanic held.
Daniela serving 0-1: Held to love.
Kostanic serving 1-1: 0/30. 15/30. 15/40 (2 BPs). 30/40. Broken.
Daniela serving 2-1: 30/0. 30/15. 40/15. Held.
Kostanic serving 1-3: 0/40 (3 BPs). 15/40. Broken.
Daniela serving 4-1: 40/0. 40/15. Held.
Kostanic serving 1-5: 0/15. 15/15. 15/30. 40/30. 40/40. Ad Daniela
(MP #1). Daniela won 6-3 6-1 at 13:33 (second set 25m, match 1h01m).

An excellent win for Daniela, especially after pulling out of
Strasbourg with a left-leg injury, and being broken in the first game
of this match. She's made it a perfect 4/4 for members of my Eternal
Fanship in the first round, even though they were all injured in the
lead-up to Roland Garros! :-)


Statistics
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Daniela had a positive W:UE ratio of 11:10, which is nice to see
after all the negative ratios for my Eternal Fanship so far this
French Open! Kostanic had a very negative W:UE ratio of 5:13.

Daniela got 76% of her first serves in, winning 80% of the points
when she did so, and 36% on a second serve which used to be one of
the best in women's tennis back in 2001, but which now, sadly,
is "there to be hit". Daniela won a perfect 100% of points on her
first serve in the second set!

Daniela served 3 aces and 2 double faults, Kostanic just one DF.

Daniela broke 5 times from 10 break-points, while Kostanic broke just
once from 4 BPs (all in the first set).

Daniela won 8 of 12 points at the net, Kostanic 3 of 4.

In points, Daniela won 60-41 (first set 34-29, second set 26-12).

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2. Second-round draw (bottom half)
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* ANA IVANOVIC [7,DF] v Sania Mirza [DF] (both nice; my loyalty is to
Sania)
* Tatiana Poutchek v Ioana Raluca Olaru [Q]
* ANABEL MEDINA GARRIGUES [24] v Elena Likhovtseva
* DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [12,EF] v Olga Poutchkova (both nice; my loyalty
is to Daniela)

* SHAHAR PE'ER [15] v Edina Gallovits (kadima Shahar!)
* KATARINA SREBOTNIK [17] v Vera Dushevina (dajmo Katarina!)
* Dominika Cibulková [Q] v MARTINA MÜLLER [32] (podme Dominika!)
* Meghann Shaughnessy v SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA [3]

* AMÉLIE MAURESMO [5] v Nathalie Dechy
* LUCIE ŠAFÁROVÁ [25,DF] v Nicole Pratt (pojdme Lucie!)
* AI SUGIYAMA [21] v Meilen Tu
* ANNA CHAKVETADZE [9,EF] v Ágnes Szávay [Q] (davai Anna!)

* PATTY SCHNYDER [14] v Kateryna Bondarenko
* ALYONA BONDARENKO [22] v Karin Knapp (davai Alyona!)
* GISELA DULKO [29,DF] v Alla Kudryavtseva [Q] (Ąvamos Gisela!)
* MARIA SHARAPOVA [2,EF] v Jill Craybas (davai Maria!)

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3. Third-round draw (top half)
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* JUSTINE HENIN [1] v MARA SANTANGELO [28]
* SYBILLE BAMMER [20] v LI,NA [16]
* DINARA SAFINA [10] v FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE [23]
* Michaëlla Krajícek v (2r: Milagros Sequera v SERENA WILLIAMS [8])

* JELENA JANKOVIC [4] v VENUS WILLIAMS [26]
* MARION BARTOLI [18,S] v ELENA DEMENTIEVA [13] (allez Marion!)
* Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro [WC] v TATHIANA GARBIN [19]
* NICOLE VAIDIŠOVÁ [6,EF] v SAMANTHA STOSUR [27] (pojdme Nicole!)

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4. Order of play for Thursday
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Court 2 (start 11:00 CEST = 09:00 GMT = 10:00 BST)
1. WS 2r: Vera Dushevina v KATARINA SREBOTNIK [17]
2. MS 2r: Stanislas Wawrinka v IVAN LJUBICIC [7]
3. MS 2r: DMITRY TURSUNOV [21] v Fernando Verdasco
4. WS 2r: DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [12,EF] v Olga Poutchkova

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

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Dr. Andrew Broad
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