Jim May produced the shock of the tournament so far with a suprise 3 set win over top seed and american rising star Sam Querrey, ranked 65 in the world. May is over 1000 places below Querrey in the rankings but showed that his qualifying form was no fluke and made his way into the 2nd round. Other notable victories included british number 3 Alex Bogdanovic and former national champion Lee Childs. Bogdanovic is looking for a good grass court season to try and enable the youngster to enter the worlds top 100 for the first time and join Andy Murray and Tim Henman in this elite zone.
In the womens tournament Melanie South continued her impressive form to reach the quarter finals along with Katie O'brien who defeated the seeded Meng Yuan of China. Disappointed came as 3 other Brits failed to build on there 1st round victories. Elena Baltacha and Naomi Cavaday showed glimpses of form but lost in 3 sets and Anne Keothavong fell to Dutch veteran Brenda Schultz McCarthy.
It was quarter final days in Paris for the men as Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic had comfortable victories over Carlos Moya and Igor Andreev. Tommorrow sees the ladies semi finals take place with Serbians Jelena Jankovic and Anna Ivanovic looking to become the first Serbians to reach a grand slam final when they meet the more experienced Sharapova and Henin respectively.
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Well said.
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