Gasquet Pushes Murray to the Limit in Day Two Action at the French Open

May 25, 2010 | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
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On day two of the 2010 French Open, the match of the day was between Andy Murray and hometown favorite, Frenchman Richard Gasquet. Gasquet who at times can be inconsistent certainly brought his "A" game to Roland Garros and gave the number four seed all he could handle. Murray dropped the first two sets, but showed tremendous heart fighting back not only against a player on the top of his game, but also against the pro-Gasquet crowd. After losing the second set in a tie-breaker to go down two sets to none, Murray won the third set 6-4 before taking complete control in the last two sets for a 4-6 6-7 6-4 6-2 6-1 win.

In other action on day two, top women’s seed Serena Williams won in straight sets as did the rest of the top five who were in action, Caroline Wozniacki, Jelena Jankovic and Elena Dementieva.

On the men’s side, world number one-ranked Roger Federer started his defense of his French Open title with an easy staright set win over Peter Luczak. Novak Djokovic, Fernando Gonzalez and Gael Monfils all advanced to round two with four set wins.

Select scores from day two of the 2010 French Open

Women’s Singles-First Round
(1) S Williams (USA) d. S Voegele (SUI) 76(2) 62
(3) C Wozniacki (DEN) d. A Kudryavtseva (RUS) 60 63
(4) J Jankovic (SRB) d. A Molik (AUS) 60 64
(5) E Dementieva (RUS) d. P Martic (CRO) 61 61
(7) S Stosur (AUS) d. (Q) S Halep (ROU) 75 61
(8) A Radwanska (POL) d. E Baltacha (GBR) 60 75
(11) L Na (CHN) vs. (WC) K Mladenovic (FRA) 75 63
A Ivanovic (SRB) d. C Kai-Chen (TPE) 63 63

Men’s Singles-First Round
[1] R Federer (SUI) d P Luczak (AUS) 64 61 62 (
[3] N Djokovic (SRB) d E Korolev (KAZ) 61 36 61 63
[4] A Murray (GBR) d R Gasquet (FRA) 46 67(5) 64 62 61
[12] F Gonzalez (CHI) d T Alves (BRA) 62 46 64 64
[13] G Monfils (FRA) d D Kindlmann (GER) 63 75 67(5) 62
[14] I Ljubicic (CRO) d Y Lu (TPE) 76(5) 75 63
[15] T Berdych (CZE) d J Aguilar (CHI) 76(7) 63 61
[17] J Isner (USA) d A Golubev (KAZ) 64 63 62


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