KEY POINTS:
New Zealand number one Marina Erakovic has shown she can foot it at the top level, despite bowing out of the French Open last night.
Her Paris campaign is over, but it was an encouraging performance from Erakovic who was playing against world number three Jelena Jankovic for
the first time, in their second round singles match.
The young New Zealander should have taken the match to a third and deciding set, but nerves got the better of her serving for the second set at 6-5 and she then blew a 5-3 lead in the tie break to allow the third seeded Serbian to advance 6-2, 7-6.
Jankovic, who struggled with a sore arm at times, is heaping praise on Erakovic, saying she played a solid match and really troubled her at times. She says Erakovic's serve really troubled her and she expects to see a lot more of Erakovic in the future.
Erakovic and her partner Michaela Krajicek have lost their first round doubles match in straight sets.
It is now on to the grass court season for Erakovic, culminating in Wimbledon next month.
Elsewhere at Roland Garros, it has been a day of upsets with sixth seed David Nalbandian and seventh seed James Blake out of the men's draw and local hope Amelie Mauresmo gone from women's action.
However Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have advanced to round three as have Venus Williams and Elena Dementieva.
OVERNIGHT RESULTS FROM PARIS:
Men's Singles, 2nd Round
Dmitry Tursunov (30), Russia, def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 7-6 (4), 6-0, 6-0.
Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, def. James Blake (7), United States, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Jeremy Chardy, France, def. David Nalbandian (6), Argentina, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2.
Mikhail Youzhny (15), Russia, def. Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.
Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador, def. Bobby Reynolds, United States, 7-5, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5.
Fernando Gonzalez (24), Chile, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 7-5, 6-0, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3).
Jarkko Nieminen (26), Finland, def. Martin Vassallo Arguello, Argentina, 7-5, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (2).
Stanislas Wawrinka (9), Switzerland, def. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-1.
Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Nicolas Devilder, France, 6-4, 6-0, 6-1.
Ivan Ljubicic (28), Croatia, def. Diego Junqueira, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
Fernando Verdasco (22), Spain, def. Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentina, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, def. Albert Montanes, Spain, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-0, 6-4.
Nikolay Davydenko (4), Russia, def. Marat Safin, Russia, 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-2.
Mario Ancic, Croatia, def. David Marrero, Spain, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2.
Jurgen Melzer, Austria, def. Marcos Daniel, Brazil, 4-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Radek Stepanek (21), Czech Republic, def. Jiri Vanek, Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-0, 6-7 (7), 6-3.
David Ferrer (5), Spain, def. Fabrice Santoro, France, 6-0, 6-1, 6-0.
Robin Soderling, Sweden, def. Paul Capdeville, Chile, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.
Lleyton Hewitt (25), Australia, def. Mardy Fish, United States, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2.
Gael Monfils, France, def. Luis Horna, Peru, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 7-5.
Robby Ginepri, United States, def. Igor Andreev (27), Russia, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Tommy Robredo (12), Spain, def. Marc Gicquel, France, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
Florent Serra, France, leads Victor Hanescu, Romania, 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (5), susp., darkness.
Women's singles, 2nd Round
Venus Williams (8), United States, def. Selima Sfar, Tunisia, 6-2, 6-4.
Jelena Jankovic (3), Serbia, def. Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, 6-2, 7-6 (5).
Flavia Pennetta (26), Italy, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1.
Iveta Benesova, Czech Republic, def. Peng Shuai, China, 6-4, 6-3.
Dominika Cibulkova (28), Slovakia, def. Milagros Sequera, Venezuela, 6-3, 6-0.
Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, def. Galina Voskoboeva, Russia, 7-5, 6-3.
Katarina Srebotnik (27), Slovenia, def. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 6-0, 7-5.
Alize Cornet (19), France, def. Gisela Dulko, Argentina, 6-0, 4-6, 6-4.
Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, def. Amelie Mauresmo (22), France, 6-3, 6-4.
Olga Govortsova, Belarus, def. Ai Sugiyama (31), Japan, 6-0, 7-5.
Elena Dementieva (7), Russia, def. Marta Domachowska, Poland, 6-1, 6-4.
Casey Dellacqua, Australia, def. Nathalie Dechy, France, 6-4, 6-2.
Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, def. Samantha Stosur, Australia, 6-2, 6-1.
Karin Knapp (32), Italy, def. Olivia Sanchez, France, 6-2, 7-6 (4).
Agnes Szavay (12), Hungary, def. Sabine Lisicki, Germany, 7-6 (3), 6-3.
Aleksandra Wozniak, Canada, def. Akgul Amanmuradova, Uzbekistan, 1-6, 6-1, 6-3.
Dinara Safina (13), Russia, def. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, 6-0, 6-1.
Victoria Azarenka (16), Belarus, def. Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea, Romania, 6-0, 6-0.
Francesca Schiavone (18), Italy, def. Sanda Mamic, Croatia, 6-3, 6-0.
Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Anna Chakvetadze (6), Russia, 6-4, 7-6 (2).
Zheng Jie, China, def. Maria Kirilenko (21), Russia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (4), Russia, def. Vania King, United States, 6-4, 6-2.
Anabel Medina Garrigues (29), Spain, def. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Maria Sharapova (1), Russia, leads Bethanie Mattek, United States, 6-2, 2-3, susp., darkness.
Nadia Petrova (25), Russia, leads Alisa Kleybanova, Russia, 6-3, 4-2, susp., darkness.
- NEWSTALK ZB
