French Open Day 7: Tracking the progress of seeded players (Men's singles)

All the major results in the men’s section from Saturday at Roland Garros.

Fallen Seeds

#8 Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia)

No.8 seed Tipsarevic was outgunned by a rampant Mikhail Youzhny, the No.29 seed from Russia. Tipsarevic had just had a marathon 5-set win against Fernando Verdasco on Friday and, with barely a day to recover, was ripe for the picking as Youzhny played some brilliant attacking tennis to book his place in the 4th round with a 6-4 6-4 6-3 win over his higher-ranked opponent. Youzhny made 42 winners in the game to Tipsarevic’s 22 while keeping the unforced errors to 29. The Russian will play Tommy Haas in Round 4.

The one who pro’seed’ed

Round 3

#1 Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

The challenge from Grigor Dimitrov was ruthlessly crushed by the World No.1 as he dished out a hammering to the Bulgarian 6-2 6-2 6-3. Djokovic came to play, and there was no doubt about it from the first point of the game. He played at a really high level and Dimitrov was simply blown away by the scale of the Serb’s game. Novak fashioned 16 break point opportunities on the Dimitrov serve, and every service game was a struggle for the 22-year-old. Djokovic was relentless from start to finish; opponents beware.

#3 Rafael Nadal (Spain)

Nadal made it past Italian 27th seed Fabio Fognini in straight sets 7-6 6-4 6-4. The Spaniard, though, yet again had some uncommon wobbles, something which has plagued him all week. He didn’t lose a set, but was down two breaks in the first set and managed to retrieve that and win the set in a tie-break. He got better as the match wore on, but definitely one of his most unconvincing first weeks at the clay court major. He next meets 13th seed Kei Nishikori of Japan.

#7 Richard Gasquet(France)

The 7th seed was impressive in his three-set win over Nikolay Davydenko of Russia 6-4 6-3 6-3. He broke the Russian’s serve five times during the contest. His win sets up a tantalising clash in Round 4 with Stan Wawrinka – a clash that will see the battle of the two best single-handed backhands in the business.

#9 Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland)

Wawrinka completed a four-set win over the dangerous Jerzy Janowicz 6-3 6-7(2) 6-3 6-3. Stan quickly wrapped up the first set in 24 minutes with a single break of serve. However, the no. 21 seed from Poland responded in the 2nd set, upping his game that saw him take set 2 in the tie-breaker. Sets 3 and 4 remained close, but Wawrinka showed his class in the big moments to grab the crucial breaks of serve. Janowicz served 10 double faults which did not help his cause. He was a -9 (37-46) on winners – unforced errors, while Wawrinka was a +19 (48-29).