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STOSUR STORMS INTO FRENCH OPEN FOURTH ROUND


Sam Stosur continued her march through a wide-open women’s draw at the French Open with a classy straight-sets defeat of Slovakian ninth seed Dominika Cibulkova. Sam Stosur’s French Open form is drawing comparisons to her run to the 2010 Roland Garros final but she’ll have to stop a red-hot Maria Sharapova to repeat the feat....

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GASQUET, MONFILS ADVANCE IN STRAIGHT SETS

Richard Gasquet admits to surprising even himself at having won through to the third round without the loss of a set, given he has missed the entire clay-court season leading up to his home Grand Slam event. The French 12th seed has battled a back injury and is still working his way back to full strength but regrouped after letting a 4-2 first-set lead slip to down free-swinging Argentine...

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DAY 5 MEN'S ACTION FOLLOWS THE FORM GUIDE

After the carnage of days 3 & 4 the results overnight stayed relatively true to form with all of the top contenders progressing easily to the third round. Andy Murray made short work of Marinko Matosevic who was possibly still suffering from dizziness following his roll to the net after his first round victory (view here). Murray then continued to increase people's speculation on who his new coach...

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DELLACQUA, MATOSEVIC ELIMINATED IN PARIS

Sam Stosur is the last Australian left standing at the French Open after Marinko Matosevic and Casey Dellacqua fell in the second round on Thursday. Matosevic couldn’t build on his drought-breaking win in the first round, proving no match for seventh seed Andy Murray in a 6-3 6-1 6-3 loss. Dellacqua lost 6-1 5-7 6-3 to Czech 23rd seed Lucie Safarova, a gallant second-set... 

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ROGER FEDERER PROGRESSES TO THIRD ROUND, AND FEELS JUST FINE

Roger Federer was in mellow mode at Roland Garros on Day 4 of the 2014 tournament. He saw off the qualifier Diego Sebastian Schwartzmann 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 to secure his place in the third round, but instead of exiting Suzanne Lenglen Court immediately, he lingered for 15 minutes or more, exchanging knockabout stuff with television interviewers, signing autographs and posing for selfies....

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