Well like Mardy Fish I had plans for Sunday that did not include an appointment at Roland Garros. Mine, however, was self imposed. American Mardy was the third round victim of hometown hero (the latest in a string) Gilles Simon. The match had nothing much to decide between the two, other than the shots Simon hit happened to be landing within square meterage surrounded by this white marked line, while Fish chose to use a slightly broader range within which his balls could finish.
So as the direction of the match appeared ominous, we unfortunates adjourned to La Tribune for free drinks and nibblies and watched Novak Djokovic play phenomenal tennis against Del Potro (whose own standard probably would have been sufficient to defeat all but but one or two) on the screen.
Hoping for a Fish revival was forlorn - he had been left too long out of the freezer. It was simple for Simon to wrap up the match in straight sets and leave the court vacant for the arrival of Maria Sharapova. Enough of the drinks - Novak and Gilles had both won - back to our seats.
How do you solve a problem like Maria was the song that Tapei's Yung-Jan Chan kept humming to herself as the 7th seed imposed herself virtually from the get go. The bookies who had shaken in their collective boots when in round two the blonde reasonably attractive athlete was staring defeat in the mirror, rather than her make-up choices, now smiled knowingly as the best that Tapei could export to Paris was not only able to be manufactured by Team Sharapova, but delivered with greater speed and efficiency.
Decibel meters are being prepared for a possible semi final between Maria and Vika Azarenka, but seeds have been going down like flies so don't count chickens yet. And leave the chickens with flies alone altogether. This seed did not fall today - Maria 6-2 6-3
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