French Open Live

Rafa knows how to start the second set after winning the first. He ran over Lleyton Hewitt 6-1 in the second, in the time it took me to write the earlier post about him winning the first.

In the third set the two traded blows, slugging out long points, till Nadal broke Hewitt at 5-all, then served for the match. But don't touch that channel - Hewitt refuses to die, breaking back to level the set at 6-all.

Never heave a sigh of relief after getting a break. It's nothing till you consolodate it by then holding your own serve.

Done. Rafa wind 6-3, 6-1, 7-6. He doesn't lose matches in paris. he hardly ever loses a set there.

Meanwhile, Marcos Baghdatis crashed and burned after winning the first set over Igor Andreev, 6-2, 1-6, 3-6, 4-6.

Zi Yan and Mark Knowles defeated Tathiana Garbin and Panul Hanley in the second round of the mixed doubles.

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