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2:05 pm: I head back to Court 1. To my dismay, Roger-Vasselin and Kunitsyn are still duking it out (62, 46, 23...). ERV hurls his racquet after losing serve. The crowd tries to encourage him but he eventually loses the set 36. ("Encouragement" means rhythmically clapping. Very little in the way of vocal support.)

As we wait for Clement-Rosol, there's a verbal kerfuffle in the stands between two small groups of fans; security eventually arrives (after repeated calls for it from one of them) but it's not clear to me what actually gets resolved (from what I can tell, both sets of fans remain where they are, fuming).

Rosol is like a poor man's Isner: tall, lanky, powerful serve, not so reliable return, pretty bad at net. He disagrees a number of times with the linecalling, but mildly and briefly. Clement does his share of snarking at the ump as well. Clement starts the match wearing goggles but ditches them after the 5th game. Rosol making liberal use of the resin box. This crowd is more fair -- I'm hearing "oh la la"s from the older French men next to me whenever someone hits a pretty winner, no matter who made the shot.

Around 4:30 pm, it becomes clear that Clement-Rosol will be heading to a third set (Clement alternating between brilliant droppers and shanks so wild they practically land in Aix), and I head to the vending machines (no concession stand open) and then to Court 2.