Lleyton Hewitt succumbed to his ankle injury which saved him from a first round defeat at the hands of Spaniard Albert Montanes. That left us one male in the singles draw - Bernard Tomic - and he was summarily stitched up in straight sets today by Argentine Carlos Berlocq. So only Aussie men's doubles to write home about now.
Mixed results for our women with Sam Stosur safely into round 2 with little opposition and not much more expected from her next victim. While Jelena Dokic and Casey Dellacqua bit the clay, Anastasia Rodionova surprised by knocking over 26th seed Nadia Petrova. But then everyone has been doing that of late, even her hitting partner.
Djokovic extended his winning streak to something beyond what today's computer's can tally, and Federer had a solid workout with Feliciano Lopez before finally convincing the Spaniard that this French Open was better off without him in it anymore.
Biggest scalp so far belongs to local boy Stephane Robert, who came back from 2 sets down against in-form 6th seed Tomas Berdych, to win 9-7 in the decider. I was lazing in Bordeaux with drink in hand watching Robert save match point and listening to the French commentator go quite ballistic - yes not only Australian tennis callers are parochial.
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