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I should have slept in.  After yesterday’s fantastic doubles comeback by the French,  I woke up early, expecting the Monfils-Djokovic match to be a battle.   Instead Monfils made a mess of things.  Michael Llodra did no better against Victor Troicki in the second match, very uneventful for the rare 2-2 matchup in a final.  The [...]

Donald Young started strong but finished weak against Lleyton Hewitt (who I think is a dark-horse to go deep — he’s a feisty Aussie who knows his time is running out), but this tournament was a good showng for Young, who won four matches counting the qualies.  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga rolled over Taylor Dent.
Tonight, Roddick goes [...]

The battle for the world’s number two ranking between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, and a fired-up Frenchman vying to claim his country’s first men’s singles title since Yannick Noah in 1983, will take to the red clay stage of the French Open on Friday. If Djokovic can beat Nadal, he will move into [...]