Did anyone see what happened to Isner? Was he just not in good enough shape to play back-to-back days? He was demolished.
I didn't watch, but looking at the match stats I see his opponent only made 10 unforced errors and hit 43 winners...hard to compete when your opponent is playing great tennis. Isner also only had 9 aces after serving 38 in his second round match.
Maria Kirilenko doesn't look particularly bad today.
She won the first set, but is down a break in the second (but just broke back). This would be a pretty major upset as she is seeded 30th and Kuznetsova is seeded 6.
It took 3 match points, but Maria Kirilenko upset the defending champ. If she can pull another upset in her next match and Wozniacki wins hers, they will meet in the quarters.
And what a shock...ESPN is showing another Venus Williams match, even though there's a great live match still going on.
Did ESPN really not show Rezai-Petrova at 7-6 in the third so they could show a replay of a match that happened seven hours ago? They are shameless. The winner of that match will play Venus. Couldn't they have at least used that as a news hook?
Roddick was blown off the court by Teimuraz Gabashvili, a Russian ranked #114 who runs hot and cold. Roddick was out-aced 9 to 4 and had 14 winners to Gabashvili's 58.
Stupid NBC. It looks like the agreement that allows DTV to carry the French Open during the week doesn't extend to weekends after 12:00 ET. ESPN2 and Tennis Channel allow DTV to carry coverage simultaneously, giving the viewer the ability to watch several matches at once. NBC doesn't want their ratings hurt, so the French Open Experience ends at Noon, even if matches that were supposed to be covered haven't even started yet.
#7M Verdasco just got taken to a 5th set but we can't watch because NBC has exclusive coverage.
The last American man in the draw is playing in the 5th set against the 16 seed, but NBC has to show us the Nadal match.
Good thing the Williams' sisters won in a walkover, or NBC would probably cover that.
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