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Sunday 10 June - tale of the day

Sunday, June 10, 2007
By Drew Lilley

8.15 pm: Aye aye, that's your lot, I reckon. I've updated the homepage, and very nice it looks too, I reckon, though I say so myself. Give it a quick peruse, why don't you? Araz, incidentally, is getting the drinks in as he won the prediction competition organised by the FFT communications department before the tournament started. I came a creditable sixth out of 39. Yay me...

Well, it only remains for me to say, on behalf of David and myself, that it has been a pleasure to keep you abreast of events over the past 15 days. Who would have thought that what were originally meant to be half-hourly updates would become almost point-by-point commentary and the biggest collection of nicknames since Snow White met up with those seven little fellahs? Thank you all for your feedback throughout the tournament, it really kept us entertained - as much, I'd like to hope, as we entertained you.

Ce n'est qu'un au revoir, as they say over here. You'll be hearing from me again, I'm pretty sure of that...

6.40 pm: Ah, here we go. Rafa sinks his gnashers into the trophy. 59 unforced errors from Roger, only 27 from Rafa. Tells a tale, that does...

6.39 pm: Here's tomorrow's schedule, by the way... http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/schedule/index.html

6.34 pm: Roger takes the mic and thanks his fans, especially those who had made the journey from Switzerland. And yes, he hopes to win Roland Garros one day. Sounding a bit gloomy out there is Rog, and who can blame him? Aha, Guga has a quick chat with the crowd. In French, top lad. Reckons he'll be back next year, in tennis kit rather than a snazzy whistle. Nice to hear.

6.30 pm: Rafa brandishes the trophy. He hasn't bitten it yet like last year though. He then congratulates Federer and thanks the crowd. Good lad, that's the ticket.

6.27 pm: Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten comes out to present the trophies, looking very dapper in a smart whistle (whistle and flute - suit...)

6.26 pm: Roger has a quick word with a commentator and says that he thinks he's getting closer to the Majorcan. Yes, but Rafa's younger and hasn't peaked yet, Rog...

6.24 pm: Headband off, shirt covered in clay, Nadal goes up into the players' box and embraces his entourage. Poor Granny Nadal gets a big clay mark on her nice white dress. Rafa'll get his ear tweaked for that, naughty boy.

6.22 pm: NADAL WINS THE 2007 FRENCH OPEN 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4!

6.21 pm: Let, first service... great first service, Nadal sends one down the line that Roger can barely reach and sends wide. Three championship points...

6.20 pm: 15-0 as Roger hesitates and gets passed. 30-0 as Roger nets his return...

6.19 pm: And out they come, for what could be the final game of the 2007 French Open. The crowd stand to acclaim their heroes...

6.18 pm: Second serve but Rog dominates. Ad Rog. Virtual ace, and it's 4-5. Rafa to serve for THE TITLE after change-over!

6.17 pm: Return ace from Rafa. Deuce... two points...

6.15 pm: Last year, Rog broke back in the fourth and final set before going down. Will the same happen here? Benoit on the French channel of Wadio Woland Gawwos reckons it's like the Titanic - you know how it's going to end but you still watch... 15-15 - three points away... 30-15 Federer as Rafa hits one long after again being drawn in by a Feds drop-shot.

6.14 pm: 40-0, 40-15 (a long forehand), game (again won at the net with a whipper). Rog to serve at 3-5... Now would be as good a time as any to pull something out of the bag, Roger...

6.12 pm: Rafa is seven points from glory. What odds he breaks to win next game up? he paints the lines, gives Rog the run then with both of them at the net, they play a mini volley match which the Majorcan wins. Six points to go...

6.10 pm: Roger holds with a great passing shot but it's now or never for him. Rafa will serve at 4-3 up after the change-over (and after he's lined the bottles up straight. Speaking of superstitions and habits, Michael mails in to comment on Rafa's capri-pant pulling antics before each serve. Yup, it's become a bit of a tic for him. Tuggetty-tug, then bouncetty-bounce and servetty-serve).

6.04 pm: Rafa goes to the net (shock! horror!) and lays down a beaut of a drop. Margaret Court would've been proud. 40-0 soon becomes game, 4-2 Nadal as Rog flays one into the net. Rafa barely needs the towel any more. He could play another match after this.We've been out there three hours, mind...

6.02 pm: Roger serves out with an ace and Mirka shouts out some encouragement. Amelie (Mauresmo, not Poulain) watches on. Bet she's got Wimbledon on her mind... Defending champ, no less.

6 pm: Game Nadal, and that was a stroll. Wakey wakey Rog, or do you have Wimbledon on your mind already? "Yeah yeah mutter mutter see how you like it on grass mutter mutter..."

5.58 pm: 30-0 Nadal quick sharp after the change-over. The muscly Majorcan is walking all over Feds out there. And of course as soon as I write that, he punts one long. Still, 30-15 and I stand by what I've written. make that 40-15. Lethargy sets into Wocket Woger...

5.55 pm: Geoff the Scotian has an interesting opinion: "every time Roger takes a swing at the ball there's a question mark, but that's not nearly the case for Nadal. Roger needs to shorten the points by serving wide, look to hit to the open court and come in, and stop trying to hit behind Nadal like he's been doing so far. Maybe it's that scary crosscourt backhand Nadal has that's on Roger's mind, and really...who could blame him?" Amen to all that, Geoff. 15-40 on the Fedserve. Roger saves one, hits a second serve then nets a simple forehand. Break Nadal, 2-1.

5.54 pm: Nadal serves out and it's 1-1. And 0-15 on the Fedserve as Rafa gives him the run-around in the opening point.

5.51 pm: Nadal ad, Rog saves. Deuces wild.

5.50 pm: Mega rally and Roger stays on the baseline until Rafa topspins a veritable cobra past him. Deuce.

5.49 pm: We then have an upside-down point. Rafa does a Federer and dominates before laying down a drop. Billie Jean King would have tsked at it though, as it sits up nicely for Rog to barrel in and pass the majorcan. Rafa then sticks one wide - break point (clap clap clap), break point (clap clap clap)...

5.48 pm: Roger fights and wins a long rally. 30-40. Rafa gets some more towellage.

5.47 pm: Ace back at ya, says Rafa with a heavily Balearic accent. Roger raises a quizzical eyebrow as it shoots past. 40-15 Nadal.

5.46 pm: Quick change of ends. Rafa does his usual ritual of lining up his drinks bottles with military precision.

5.43 pm: Rafa hits a cross-court line-painter from about the third row of the crowd, he was that far back. Roger respons with an ace. We end up going to deuce, though, and Rafa's working up a sweat and getting towel-tastic between every point. Except the aces - as they whoosh past, they tend to cool him down. Here comes another one - three aces and it's Ad then "jeu Federer". Whooshtastic.

5.42 pm: Ace. Maybe Roger was reading this article on one of those loganberries or whatever they're called, you know, PDAs, and decided to shut me up. Maybe Mirka has one and printed him off a summary, highlighting the critical parts. Whatever, he's now 30-15 up.

5.39 pm: Wafa wong-foots Woger and it's game and second set Nadal, 6-3. Nine winners each, three unforcerders for Rafa, 11 for Roger. No wonder Mirka's frowning. Rafa changes shirt, while Rog merely towels his face. Which Roger will come out for the fourth, we ask.

5.38 pm: Long rally, so who wins it? Rafa, you all pipe up, and you're right. He mixed up his line and length and it's double set point.

5.37 pm: Rog does indeed wake up, for the first point at least, but then hits snooze again. 30-15 Nadal.

5.33 pm: Double fault. Deuce. Apathy rules Rog at the moment. Nadal is then enticed into the net by a drop and hits one long. Rog serves an ace and it's 3-5. Mirka applauds. If I were her, I'd yell "Get the lead out!" In Swiss German, of course. Something along the lines of "Du, Rog, uufwache !" or something along those lines.

5.32 pm: Roger summons up enough interest to save the set point and take an Ad.

5.31 pm: Roger serves up a mixed bag and suddenly it's break and set point Nadal.

5.28 pm: Roger nets a couple. He's into that "if I'm not 0-30 up, I'll not bother and try again next game". Another netted forehand. 44 unforced errors. Yeesh. Rafa holds, and Roger shakes his head. He's done this a few times during the tournament. Seems to lose all desire mid-game. 5-2 at the changeover. Come on Rog, you're a tennis legend. Prove it, buster.

5.26 pm: New balls for Rafa, new racquet for Roger. Maybe it'll be heavier and make him less inclined to charge into the net like some latter-day Ben Hur...

5.25 pm: Roger again holds in a game oozing with nonchalance. Loved up it was, to use today's youthful parlance.

5.24 pm: IBM stat alert here. If a rally is 1-2 shots, the points won by the two players are exactly 50/50. Ditto for 3-8 shot rallies. Exactly half each. Longer than eight, and Rafa almost two-thirds of them. In most cases, it's Roger trying to hit a winner at the end of a tiring rally and he punts it long (either that or he hares up to the net and gets royally done like a kipper).

5.20 pm: Rog slices one straight into the net. Kind of shot I'd play, that was. At table tennis. Rog then dominates, comes to the net and... I don't even need to tell you, do? A belter of a passing-shot, to be fair, and it's 4-1 Nadal.

5.19 pm: Deuce deuce baby. Roger within two points of breaking back (and by the same token, Rafa within two points of leading 4-1, in the interests of probity and a lack of bias).

5.17 pm: Roger's eyes are watering. Maybe he's suffering from clay fever... Ba-da-boom-tish.

5.15 pm: Rog sorts himself out and holds to 15. Look up the word "nonchalant" in the dictionary and you'll see video footage of that last game.

5.11 pm: Roger loooongs one and it's 3-0. Change-over.

5.09 pm: TELEGRAM FOR FEDERER... STOP... WHAT'S ALL THIS COMING TO THE NET MALARKEY... STOP... PLEASE...STOP. Coming to the net at the right moment is great, but Roger's fallen in love with it and it's currently his undoing. Rafa leads 40-30.

5.08 pm: Rog races to the net and gets done like a kipper. Rafa breaks and leads 2-0. Unbeliveably naive tactics from the Swiss maestro there... Incroyable, the Frenchies are saying, and I'm having a hard time croying it, I can tell you.

5.07 pm: 15-40. Second serve and Rafa needed only two shots to get Roger excatly where he wanted him. Double break-point.

5.06 pm: 0-30... Roger comes in and gets lobbed by a net cord. Tough break.

5. 05 pm: Nadal holds, and we'll have a quick change-over, as one does after the first game of every set, to make sure that no one side of the court can give either player enough of an advantage to get two games clear. You never know - sun in your eyes, that kind of thing...

5.02 pm: Rog charges in but puts the ball right on Rafa's backhand at a "sit up and beg" height and gets royally passed. 40-15 on the Nadal serve.

5.01 pm: It's cooler out there now. Still bright, but breezier. Roger weather...

4.59 pm: Roger holds and takes the second set 6-4. Rafa has lost a set for the first time since... last year's final (when Rog raced to the first before being taken to the cleaners). Mirka, who is Mrs Rog, breathes a hyoooge sigh of relief. 13 winners, 20, count 'em, 20 unforced errors from Rog, but still he won. Rafa's been line-hunting out there and finding them, but what happens if he suddenly loses a degree or two on his radar, or if Rog actually remembers how to serve?

4.58 pm: Rog needs to get his first services in here. The first one isn't, but the next two are. He's up to 46%. Better, but still lousy, to be frank. And yet he's about to take the second set. He races to the net and makes it 40-15.

4.53 pm: Nadal dominates and Federer is too stretched. Ad Nadal. We've had more tennis in this one game than we had on Chatrier all afternoon yesterday. Nadal plays two absolute line-finders and Roger nets. 5-4 and Rog will serve for the set after the change-over. He really needs to kill the set here otherwise Rafa's psychological advantage afte staying alive in that game will be enormous. Hyoooge.

4.52 pm: Rafa Ad this time but it still goes the way of the world and we're back to deuce. Same, only different.

4.50 pm: More rallying and Roger takes it long, short, long again and it's Ad. And... Roger's cross-court winner turns out to be a loser as it lands the wrong side of the line.

4.49 pm: Rafa dominates, Roger recovers, Rafa nets to make it Fed Ad, but a cross-court line-finder makes it deuce-alicious.

4.48 pm: Rafa has a whole court to aim at but sticks a backhand a millimetre wide. Deuce-mongous.

4.46 pm: Rafa kicks down another one and Rog splices it. Wicked top-spin. Game point Rafa, but then Rog pulls another rabbit (Roger Rabbit, tee hee) out of his sleeve in a gruesome mixed metaphor that brings us back to deuce.

4.45 pm: Deuce, after Rog seemingly bottles it on two big points. There's time yet though.

4.44 pm: Will this be a mirror image of the first set? ie same again only the other way round? Federer leads 0-30 on the Rafa service after a fine pair of winners that Rafa doesn't even run for. 15-30 as Rafa bangs down a big'un...

4.43 pm: Roger serves and volleys like a good'un and it's 5-3. Like watching Sampras, it was.

4.42 pm: Roger races to the net and saves, then re-races and takes Ad.

4.39 pm: Roger hits his toppy backhands too short and Rafa pounces. Break point. Nadal is then forced back and hits a desperate, enormous lob which is called out but the umpire overrules.

4.38 pm: Roger hits a forehand that lands on the "L" on Rafa's forehand side. A thou' either way and it was out. Ad Roger, but then he nets a sitter. Deucetastic.

4.37 pm: Rog rights back and takes it two deuce with some gutsy points. Mental fortitude is usually Rafa's strong suit, but Rog is matching him here. Who'll blink first?

4.35 pm: Rafa fights back and a nervous Rog sends a few forehands wide. 0-30 becomes 15-40 as Roger hits one that went a thou' beyond the line.

4.31 pm: A cross-court backhand which almost defies words brings it back to 15-40. Same old sane old? No! Roger comes to the net, dominates and Rafa nets a forehand at full stretch. 4-3, Roger breaks and wins the crucial seventh game!

4.30 pm: 0-40 on the Nadal serve as Roger returns and volleys at the net. Come on, let's be having you Roger...

4.28 pm: Roger holds to 15, but in a game with more tennis in it than most entire sets have. Ups, downs, net cords, stretches, lunges and in the end, Fed domination. 3-3.

4.27 pm: Nice observation from Valerie, who says that: "It's like the Davydenko-Fed match except that Federer is now Davydenko, without the confidence to break when he has to."

4.24 pm: Rog looongs a backhand, 30-40. Rafa then holds to lead 3-2 (and more importantly 1-0). Missed opportunity? Yup - story of this match so far. There's plenty of tennis left though, so don't even think of looking away.

4.21 pm: Roger comes to the net to get to a Rafa drop-shot and passes the Majorcan with a little wristy dink. 15-30 then becomes 30-30 as Roger wastes all his good work by loooonging a forehand.

4.19 pm: Rafa takes it to 30-40 but then - hold your breath here - Roger saves the break-point! Momentum-shiftng? Well I wouldn't go that far but Roger then pumps down an ace at 204 km/h (that's four stone seven in old money. OK OK, it's 127 mph). And then a backhand cross-court winner makes it 2-2. Game (still) on...

4.14 pm: Rafa holds comfortably. It certainly wasn't "no sweat", as it's hot hot hot out there. Rafa weather. Spanish flags flutter proudly in the crowd, while the Suisse aren't really Hopping much at the moment.

4.11 pm: Roger holds to 15. We still have a match on our hands.

4.09 pm: Statement of intent. Rafa holds to love to open the second, with some particularly effete backhands into the net from Roger. This service game is now crucial to the match. Can Roger turn the tide, or will it be 2006 revisited?

4.05 pm: 38%. That's all that Roger could manage on his first serve. 10 break points, none taken. Rafa had two, took two. 16 unforced-ers from Roger...

4.02 pm: 0-30 after Rog fluffed two first serves. 30-30 behind two decent serves. Roger then nets a couple and NADAL TAKES THE FIRST WITH A SECOND BREAK! 6-3!

4 pm: Rafa holds as Roger nets. 5-3 here to Rafa, Roger serving to stay in what has been a classic of a first set.

3.59 pm: Kick serve, Roger hits his return out but it was called a fault. Ms ump. calls it fair and the point is replayed. Justice is done as Rafa wins. Ad Nadal.

3.58 pm: Rog's 10th break point goes the same way as the other nine. A tramlined backhand. 40-40. He's putting everything on the backhand but it's as if he gets nervous whenever he has a break-point.

3.57 pm: Rafa lets a couple of services then in comes Roger and... nets... ARGH! 30-40.

3.55 pm: 0-40. Here we go again. Long rallies and this time Rafa blunk first (blunk is the simple past of blink - look it up if you can tear yourself away from the action, which I don't recommended). Roger then blunks, 15-40...

3.52 pm: Roger has a dozen break points, couldn't take any and then Rafa just pushed the motor into eighth gear and blew him away. Remember that stat from a few days ago? (S)he who wins the seventh game takes the set nine times out of 10... The psychological advantage that Rafa now has must be enormous. Will the two-minute change-over have come at the right or the wrong time for Rog - did he want to collect his thoughts or did it just leave him stewing, mumbling and chuntering to himself... We shall see.

3.51 pm: Roger crumbles. Longs, nets, the lot. 0-40. Then another net. RAFA BREAKS!

3.49 pm: Sliced service and Rafa holds. I am currently dipping my poor digits in finger-bowl, spicy restaurant stylee. Hiss hiss fizz. Steamtastic.

3.48 pm: Same again, second serve and Rafa pulls another game-saver out of the bag. We could be here all night at this rate, and I for one wouldn't complain. I might need some replacement fingers after a while though. Ad Nadal now, can he convert it?

3.47 pm: A backhand line-finder from Rog. Break-point number umpteen...

3.45 pm: Rafa would be no good at rugby - he can't convert either. Game point saved by Federer after a mammoth rally. Any minute now and we'll go from deucemongous to deucealicious.

3.43 pm: And here's his chance. Another break point won off a pumping forehand out of the Rafa reach. Rafa nets a serve, his second is a kicker and Roger nets tamely. The game has now gone from deucetastic to deucemongous.

3.42 pm: Second serve. Break point-and-a half... Rog sends a forehand beyond the tramlines... Like a proselytising preacher, Rog needs to start converting here.

3.41 pm: Return and volley and the cutest of sliced backhands from Rog. Break-point again...

3.40 pm: Marathon rally which Nadal wins about three times only for Rog to stretch out a go-go-gadget arm. The Swissie nets a forehand to end it though. Ad Nadal, but Rog ain't done yet - gives Rafa the run-around and it's officially a deucetastic game. The crowd are firmly behind the Basler here...

3.39 pm: Another booming serving and it's deuce. Yup, that was the ol' Rafa seventh gear there...

3.38 pm: Rafa's turn to loooong one. Two break points. The crowd is on the edge of their collective seats. First serve, ace. Whoosh, or however you spell it in Spanish.

3.36 pm: Backhand cross-court passing-shot and it's 0-30 on the capri-pant serve. Can Roger break here? Is Rafa simply going to engage seventh gear? Roger looongs a backhand (sorry to use an adjective as a verb but I'm in a hurry typing here) and it's 15-30.

3.34 pm: Roger holds to love. Whoosh. Not a bead of sweat on his strong Swiss forehead. Four points in the time it took me to publish a report on the boy's final, won by a young Belarusian (a country I have also visited - my passport looks like a scrap-book and is a rattling good read when you're stuck in an airport with no book or newspaper).

3.30 pm: Rog hits one off the splice (lovely word, isn't it - splice - run it around your tongue like a good single malt...) and it's 2-2. Roger had a chance there, but Rafa simply upped his game. Psychological advantage to the piratically dressed Majorcan? Maybe... Good match so far though but! Hope you're all enjoying out there...

3.29 pm: Rog pounds the backhand, Rafa runs round and turns them into forehand, and he's got that whip a-cracking. Ad Rafa.

3.27 pm: 30-40 - longish rally which Rafa manages to keep on his forehand and ends up with Roger netting. Rafa's running a country mile to get it round onto his forehand though. Still, he's young - he can run all day if necessary. Rog nets the next one at the danger has been averted. Deuce deuce baby.

3.24 pm: Sniff of a break? Roger hits a peach of a service return on the line, then pounds away again at the Rafa backhand to lead 15-30. And now it's 15-40 - Roger dominates, sends Rafa waaaaay back and concludes with a smash.

3.21 pm: Roger holds to 30. 2-1 Rog, with serve. Wocket Woger is pounding away at the Rafa backhand and while it's early days, it's working.

3.16 pm: Rafa holds to 15. No sweat. Roger serves and looks like he's implemented his Nadal game-plan - backhands a go-go. He's going to make Rafa hit backhands all day, in an attempt to negate his topspin forehands.

3.12 pm: Rafa noses ahead, but Wocket Woger thwows one down at 208 km/h and it's 30-30. 40-30 after a Nadal forehand hits the net, then a virtual ace to hold his serve and take the game. The crowd almost lift the roof off (well, a metaphorical roof until the feasibility study has been performed). 1-0 Roger. First blood? Not yet - he's merely done what he had to. Let's see how Rafa serves... I'm asked by Susie fae Aberdeen (aye aye, fit like, as we say up there) whether he has always worn capri pants, even since he first picked up a racquet! Well, he's been wearing them here for the past three years and he ain't lost yet...

3.11 pm: Federer to serve... but Nadal wins the first point.

3.04 pm: Giovanni is stat-tastic. "I studied how the ranking will come out on monday...(Sometimes even not to play can be good...In fact Andy Murray, even if he hasn't played in Paris because of a wrist injury, will lose only the 5 points he had for a first round loss against Gael Monfils in 2006, and will take advantage of the fact thet Ljubicic and Haas (who also hasn't played) will lose 375 and 75 points respectively and will gain 2
positions... AT the end...1. Federer; 2. Nadal, 3. Davydenko; 4. Djokovic; 5. Roddick, 6.Gonzalez, 7. Robredo; 8. Blake; 9; Murray; 10. Haas; 11. Ljubicic... "
Well done that Gio. Hope Napoli win for you today in Serie B. Wolves is my football team. The Tim henman of the football world - you always expect them to be there or there abouts, and then they never quite scale the heights. But you still believe, you always believe.

3.03 pm: The warm-up begins. Natalie says Nadal in five and asks me who has pleasantly surprised my this tournament. Serbia. The whole country. What performances from all of their players. Ana and in particular Novak - the Djoker has a bright, bright future ahead of him. I'm really looking forward to seeing what he can do at Wimbledon this time around.

3.02 pm: The players are out on court! I'm nervous, so I can hardly begin to imagine how they feel...

2.55 pm: Updated poll. 38% say Roger in four, 31% say Nadal in four, 23% say Nadal in three, 8% say Roger in three. 100% say this blog rules as well, while 92.45% of all statistics are made up on the spur of the moment. Interesting stats. There's a Wocket Woger gwoundswell of opinion around the world - I have Brazilian fans, Norwegians, Indians... Ooh, Mary Pierce as well! It's star-studded here in the broadcasting booth!

2.45 pm: Matthias, who is as polite as his name (his surname, I mean - Hoeflich - not Matthias), asks about the centre court with a roof. It's under study at the moment - there's a video interview about it here: http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/multimedia/index.html (Press conference...)

Ooh, Ooh! Get on the radio! Pat Cash! On Wadio Woland Gawwos. Star-tastic. Aus-mongous! Antipod-acious!

2.40 pm: So, the Interweb community has spoken. 44% say Nadal in four, 23% say Nadal in three, 33% say Rog in four. The Roger fans are talking up their man's chances, while the Nadalites reckon it will be a walk-over. It's hot out there - Nadal weather. Watch his topspin bite and kick. Rog'll need to be here, there and everywhere out on court today.

2.35 pm: Ooh, it's warm out there. Jarryd and JP MacEnroe have just won the over-45 men's doubles, beating Vilas and Fitzgerald 6-1, 6-2. Good news for the Frenchies too - Alize Cornet has won the girls' singles in three sets. She lost the first 4-6 but then upped her game (let's not forget, she was out on Chatrier playing Venus less than two weeks ago) and won 6-1, 6-0 against Mariana Dugue Marino.

12.50 pm: Artnoon one and all! How are we today? I was out dubbing Roger Federer til late so am feeling a bit tired, but I'm sure I'll raise my game later on - this is the final after all! So, what's the weather like, I hear you all ask. Absolutely scorchio. It's a lovely day, 26 degrees and barely a cloud in the sky. Nadal weather. I'm wearing my Swiss t-shirt but for me, it's Nadal in four. Rog'll have a moment or two of clarity and brilliance, but Rafa's name's on the trophy again for me. multimedia@fft.fr to tell me who you think will win and in how many.

In other news, Boetsch and Forget beat fellow Frenchies Leconte and Pioline 3-6, 6-3 and then 16-14 in the tie-breaker game (Legends doubles rules - the third set is a tie-break game, first to ten, two points clear).





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