Spare a thought for Fabio Fognini, Andy Murray and John Isner. Those guys were on court late tonight (Paris time) and have to get right back out there for third-round matches tomorrow – assuming the weather cooperates. Marcos Baghdatis will also be hitting the court for the third day in a row, but he only had to play a 6-2 set today and will be getting Murray, who played two-and-a-half sets and ended much later in the day. Baghdatis might have a bit of an advantage there.
Tomorrow should be a great day, tennis-wise. There are currently 87 men's and women's players left in the tournament and 78 of them will be hoping to get their second/third round matches in. A few of them will probably be in for short days – Maria Sharapova and Justine Henin are both in the second set of their matches and Marion Bartoli had just gotten back on serve (she had been down 2-5) when play was suspended.
Crisis Averted: The second quarter of the women's draw didn't blow up – Jelena Jankovic did survive against Kaia Kanepi, 6-4 in the third. Now, she gets a possible revenge match against Alona Bondarenko, who knocked her out of the Australian Open. I like Jankovic in that one. Meanwhile, in that same quarter, Jarmila Groth, Anastasia Rodionova, Alisa Kleybanova or Yaroslava Shvedova is going to be a Grand Slam quarterfinalist. Wow.
A few matches that worth checking out tomorrow: Montanes vs. Soderling, Murray vs. Baghdatis and Isner vs. Berdych on the men's side and Dulgheru vs. Wozniacki, Rezai vs. Petrova and Cibulkova vs. Venus Williams on the women's side.
I'll leave with a fearful and a fearless prediction based on what's happened so far. Fearful prediction: the winner of Isner/Berdych gets to the quarters. Fearless prediction: Federer breaks the record for most weeks at No. 1 – his path to the semis has gotten much easier these first five days in Paris. The tennis gods must love that man.
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