[KimLinbert]

For the Girls:
C’est la Bérézina!*

From the difficult first round of a junior wild card, Kristina, to the defeat of seed number 16 Virginie Razzano, the french ladies stumbled through the day.



Aravane fought hard against Sabine Lisicki, but the german is really on this season. Good luck to her.



Séverine Brémond had not enough matches under the belt to beat Martic. She hopes to get back to form for the Aussie …



Camille has already done good by qualifying and Elena is just cruising through. Go Elena ! I have you winning the whole thing !

Only Julie Coin and Alize managed to get to round 2. Julie had a good match against qualifier Hrdinova (how do you pronounce this ?) but now faces Nadia Petrova ! Alize barely managed to pass in three sets and more then 2 hours against unknown australian qualifier Adamczak. She really needs a boost to get farther. Allez Alize ! Jie Zheng is a much stronger opponent.



*Name of a famous defeat of Napoleon used to represent total disaster ...

For the Boys:
C'est un festival ! :bleus:

Jo started the day strong against number 920 in the World Chase Buchanan. Jo said it again, he loves NY, he wants to win matches here. Allez Jo !



Next Julien Benneteau managed to pass Flavio Cipolla in 4 sets. He will meet Victor Troïcki in the next round who had to fight five sets to get there.



Finally Florent Serra showed his good form by beating Tipsy in three tie-breaks and Josselin Ouanna repeated his RG form by outing Rajeev Ram.



Bravo les mecs !

Preview: tomorrow(today) is a bad day, I think I'll skip it .


Results:
Men:
J.W. Tsonga (7)*d. C. Buchanan (EU)*6/0, 6/2, 6/1
J. Benneteau d. F. Cipolla (Ita) 4/6, 6/1, 6/3, 6/3
F. Serra d. J. Tipsarevic (Ser) 7/6(8), 7/6(5), 7/6(4)
J. Ouanna (Q) d. R. Ram (EU/WC) 7/6(4), 6/4, 3/6, 6/3

Women:
S. Dubois (Can) d. K. Mladenovic 6/0, 6/4
P. Martic (Cro) d. S. Brémond Beltrame 6/4, 6/2
Y. Wickmayer (Bel) d. V. Razzano (16) 6/4, 6/3
S. Lisicki (All/23) d. A. Rezai 7/6(4), 6/7(4), 6/1
J. Coin d. E. Hrdinova (Rtc) 6/3, 6/3
E. Dementieva (Rus/4) d. C. Pin 6/1, 6/2
A. Cornet d. M. Adamczak (Aus) 4/6, 6/4, 7/5

Doubles:
M. Gicquel / F. Santoro d. D. Skoch (Cze) / I. Zelenay (Svk) 6/4, 7/5
A. Pavel (Rou) / H. Tecau (Rou) d. N. Mahut / P.H. Mathieu 6/3, 6/4