Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5: Thursday, May 30

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(All matches, on all courts, are listed in order to give you a feel for when everything will begin and end.)

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Court Philippe Chatrier - 11:00 AM

Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) vs. Samantha Stosur (AUS) (9)

Novak Djokovic (SRB) (1) vs. Guido Pella (ARG)

Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) vs. Maria Sharapova (RUS) (2)

Michal Przysiezny (POL) vs. Richard Gasquet (FRA) (7)

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Court Suzanne Lenglen - 11:00 AM

Lucas Pouille (FRA) vs. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) (26)

Annika Beck (GER) vs. Victoria Azarenka (BLR) (3)

Rafael Nadal (ESP) (3) vs. Martin Klizan (SVK)

Francesca Schiavone (ITA) vs. Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) (21)

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Court 1 - 11:00 AM

Na Li (CHN) (6) vs. Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)

Benoit Paire (FRA) (24) vs. Lukasz Kubot (POL)

Fernando Verdasco (ESP) vs. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) (8)

Marion Bartoli (FRA) (13) vs. Mariana Duque-Marino (COL)

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Court 2 - 11:00 AM

Grega Zemlja (SLO) vs. Kei Nishikori (JPN) (13)

Alize Cornet (FRA) (31) vs. Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP)

Ashleigh Barty (AUS) vs. Maria Kirilenko (RUS) (12)

Tommy Haas (GER) (12) vs. Jack Sock (USA)

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Court 3 - 11:00 AM

Jelena Jankovic (SRB) (18) vs. Garbine Muguruza (ESP)

Lukas Rosol (CZE) vs. Fabio Fognini (ITA) (27)

Kaia Kanepi (EST) vs. Stefanie Voegele (SUI)

Ryan Harrison (USA) vs. John Isner (USA) (19)

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Court 4 - 11:00 AM

Catalina Castano (COL) / Katalin Marosi (HUN) vs. Renata Voracova (CZE) / Klara Zakopalova (CZE)

Alize Lim (FRA) / Aravane Rezai (FRA) vs. Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) (2) / Lucie Hradecka (CZE) (2)

Cara Black (ZIM) / Marina Erakovic (NZL) vs. Angelique Kerber (GER) / Andrea Petkovic (GER)

Caroline Garcia (FRA) / Mathilde Johansson (FRA) vs. Annika Beck (GER) / Valeria Solovyeva (RUS)

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Court 5 - 11:00 AM

Melanie Oudin (USA) vs. Jie Zheng (CHN)

Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) / Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) vs. Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) (6) / Abigail Spears (USA) (6)

Simona Halep (ROU) / Arantxa Rus (NED) vs. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) / Ayumi Morita (JPN)

Shuai Zhang (CHN) / Julian Knowle (AUT) vs. Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) / Treat Huey (PHI)

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Court 6 - 11:00 AM

Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) (16)

Vania King (USA) vs. Sloane Stephens (USA) (17)

Petra Kvitova (CZE) (7) vs. Shuai Peng (CHN)

Denis Istomin (UZB) vs. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)

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Court 7 - 11:00 AM

Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) (16) vs. Marina Erakovic (NZL)

Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) (9) vs. Horacio Zeballos (ARG)

Robin Haase (NED) vs. Jerzy Janowicz (POL) (21)

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Court 8 - 11:00 AM

Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) vs. Victor Hanescu (ROU)

Not Before: 12:30 PM

Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) / Johanna Larsson (SWE) vs. Varvara Lepchenko (USA) / Saisai Zheng (CHN)

Sara Errani (ITA) (1) / Roberta Vinci (ITA) (1) vs. Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) / Garbine Muguruza (ESP)

Kveta Peschke (CZE) / Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs. Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) / Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)

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Court 9 - 12:30 PM

Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) / Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) vs. Albano Olivetti (FRA) / Maxime Teixeira (FRA)

Madison Keys (USA) / Melanie Oudin (USA) vs. Lauren Davis (USA) / Megan Moulton-Levy (USA)

Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) / Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) vs. Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) (15) / Darija Jurak (CRO) (15)

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Court 10 - 11:00 AM

Colin Fleming (GBR) (10) / Jonathan Marray (GBR) (10) vs. Feliciano Lopez (ESP) / Andre Sa (BRA)

Marc Gicquel (FRA) / Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs. Daniel Brands (GER) / Frank Moser (GER)

Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) / Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) / Flavia Pennetta (ITA)

Stephanie Foretz Gacon (FRA) / Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs. Lisa Raymond (USA) (4) / Bruno Soares (BRA) (4)

Carlos Berlocq (ARG) / Leonardo Mayer (ARG) vs. Pablo Cuevas (URU) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG)

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Court 11 - 12:30 PM

Nadia Petrova (RUS) / Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) vs. Mandy Minella (LUX) / Alexander Peya (AUT)

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) (11) / Lucie Safarova (CZE) (11) vs. Vera Dushevina (RUS) / Alexandra Panova (RUS)

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) (6) / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) (6) vs. Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) / Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)

Alize Cornet (FRA) / Virginie Razzano (FRA) vs. Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) (7) / Sania Mirza (IND) (7)

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Court 14 - 11:00 AM

Irina Buryachok (UKR) / Heather Watson (GBR) vs. Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) / Alicja Rosolska (POL)

Treat Huey (PHI) / Dominic Inglot (GBR) vs. Tobias Kamke (GER) / Florian Mayer (GER)

Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (ESP) / Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) vs. Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) (10) / Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) (10)

Jeremy Chardy (FRA) / Lukasz Kubot (POL) vs. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) / Frederik Nielsen (DEN)

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Court 16 - 11:00 AM

Jana Cepelova (SVK) / Karolina Pliskova (CZE) vs. Nina Bratchikova (POR) / Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)

Not Before: 12:30 PM

Eva Hrdinova (CZE) / Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) vs. Janette Husarova (SVK) / Sabine Lisicki (GER)

Pablo Andujar (ESP) / Tommy Robredo (ESP) vs. Julien Benneteau (FRA) (13) / Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) (13)

Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) / Lucas Pouille (FRA) vs. Andreas Seppi (ITA) / Viktor Troicki (SRB)

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Court 17 - 11:00 AM

Paula Ormaechea (ARG) vs. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) (27)

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK) vs. Jamie Hampton (USA)

Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) (29) vs. Federico Delbonis (ARG)

Michael Llodra (FRA) / Nicolas Mahut (FRA) vs. Mateusz Kowalczyk (POL) / Lukas Rosol (CZE)

 

[Moxie]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

I like the color-coding for women and men. Thanks, tented!

 

[I.Haychew]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Matches of the day...
Rosol vs. F3: Because Nadal fans want revenge against Rosol and because I like F3.
Verdasco vs. Tipsarevic: To see who can choke it away THIS time!

 

[Moxie]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Matches of the day...
Rosol vs. F3: Because Nadal fans want revenge against Rosol and because I like F3.
Verdasco vs. Tipsarevic: To see who can choke it away THIS time!

Good ones! I picked the Fog in my draw, and he should be the man on clay, if he holds his form and his head together. But I wouldn't mind if Nadal gets a shot at Rosol, either.

What about Haase v. Janowicz? Big-hitter battle.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Well being a Rafa fan I would not mind if Rosol won.In saying that I think the Fog will prevail.
I am also a Jerzy fan and against Haase it will be a 'big hitter battle'.I have to pick Jerzy in 4 sets.

 

[herios]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Matches of the day...
Rosol vs. F3: Because Nadal fans want revenge against Rosol and because I like F3.
Verdasco vs. Tipsarevic: To see who can choke it away THIS time!

Our boys, Verdy and F3 for the win

 

[Mastoor]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Matches of the day...
Rosol vs. F3: Because Nadal fans want revenge against Rosol and because I like F3.
Verdasco vs. Tipsarevic: To see who can choke it away THIS time!

I hope that Rosol can beat Rafa again. I don't think that Fognini has a chance against him.

 

[tented]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Lu withdrew, giving Kohlschreiber a walkover.

 

[isabelle]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

It's raining again, this stupid wether bores me
Tomorrow rain is scheduled too
I pity those poor players waiting in the locker room

 

[tented]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

It's raining again, this stupid wether bores me
Tomorrow rain is scheduled too
I pity those poor players waiting in the locker room

And the thousands of people who bought tickets.

 

[El Dude]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Congrats to Grigor for making it to the 3R of a Slam for the first time. That's kind of hard to believe that he's never made it this far, but I suppose that's what you get when you're seeded - you get to avoid Novak Djokovic in the 1R.

Up next is, well, Novak Djokovic. I suspect Novak won't be getting the same surprise he got a few weeks ago, not at a Slam.

 

[herios]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Hanescu into the 3rd, with Tursunov retiring in the second set TB, with hamstring injury. Interesting that Hanescu benefited by another injury retirement by Tomic in R1, also by hamstring injury.
To Victor's credit, he was leading in both matches.
Great to see my fellow Romanian, having such a comeback, a year ago he was down in rankings to 150 , he has a better season and now he will get into the top 50 again.

 

[herios]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Nole breezes through, super Fabio takes out Rosol in 4 sets.

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Matches scheduled as the 4th match on courts have already been cancelled for today.

 

[Denis]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Fognini did the job as you predicted herios. No Rosol - Nadal match

 

[brokenshoelace]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Quite a frustrating day. I really hate this aspect of majors.

 

[herios]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Fognini did the job as you predicted herios. No Rosol - Nadal match

It was the logical outcome. Fognini's best surface is clay and he's had a run into the QF here. Rosol is an improved player since he has beaten Rafa, but not anywhere close yet to go deeper into a slam. At Wimbledon upsets are more frequent earlier in the event, as the slick surface is a factor.
When I see how anxious some Rafa fans are to see a revenge, it cracks me up actually

 

[Front242]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

What better to place to try and have his revenge than Wimbledon where frankly Rosol has a much better chance anyway. Grass suits his game much better. I see Nadal's match has been postponed till tomorrow. Already a day behind with 2nd round matches thanks to the poor weather in Paris. Sucks for both fans and players.

 

[Moxie]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Fognini did the job as you predicted herios. No Rosol - Nadal match

When I see how anxious some Rafa fans are to see a revenge, it cracks me up actually

Not so much revenge, at least in my case, as a stat-nerd's desire to see the H2H evened up. Anyway, as Front rightly says, "revenge" will more rightly come at Wimbledon, or on a HC. (And it will! :clap)

 

[Mastoor]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Did anyone watch No1e's match? I went to bed when Sam and kristina were sent to the dressing room, so i missed No1e's match. Next is against DiMitrov, lets see how that looks like when No1e is prepared.

 

[tented]

RE: Roland Garros Order Of Play - Day 5

Quite a frustrating day. I really hate this aspect of majors.

Especially in the first couple of rounds, when they're trying to get through 140+ matches (I'm including doubles). It winds up pushing the top guys later into the first week, eventually forcing them to play more than half the tournament in the second week.

At this point, Rafa won't make it out of the second* round before Friday -- and that's assuming it doesn't rain tomorrow. If it does, it could end up being Saturday before he's played two matches.

EDIT: I just realized I initially wrote first round.