Rain, Rain Go Away

The newest entrant into the Roland Garros draw this year: Mother Nature, and although she won't be holding up a trophy on the final weekend, the players who do win may want to mention her in their acceptance speeches. It is getting late in the day, Paris time, and Day 4 isn't done yet (to say nothing of Day 5!). There are still four men's matches and one women's match to be completed, and only one of them could be completed fairly quickly – Gael Monfils and Fabio Fognini are tied at 5-5 in the fifth, and they'll go on as soon as Jelena Jankovic and Kaia Kanepi complete their third set. You know, I wrote a couple days ago that Kanepi was one of the tougher second-round matches, and sometimes it's nice to be proven right, especially since I'm not getting much right with the women's draw this year.
Anyway, in Day 5 action so far, we have two players in the third round of the women's draw – Jarmila Groth and Alisa Kleybanova, both of whom lost three games. Groth topped Kimiko Date-Krumm and Kleybanova trashed Ana Ivanovic. That's too bad for Ivanovic. She really looked like she was turning her season around this spring, and she was in a section of the draw, where she could have done some real damage.
Now, that entire quarter of the draw is threatening to blow up. Jankovic is in trouble against Kanepi, Vera Zvonareva is down a set and a break to Anastasia Rodionova and Agnieszka Radwanska is almost out against Yaroslava Shvedova. Who knows what's going to happen there?
There's not much to say about the men's draw right now. It doesn't seem likely that we'll get many of their results in today. As I write this, Andy Roddick has split the first two sets of his match against Blaz Kavcic, so they'll be out there for a little while longer. The winner of that match is very likely to play Teimuraz Gabashvili, who is up two sets and a break. He could get off-court quickly once they start playing. Andy Murray and John Isner are getting ready to play again, and Marcos Baghdatis just started the fourth set of his match – he's up two sets to one.
I'll be back with more later.