French Open Results
Tennis newsResults Friday from the French Open, played on clay at Stade Roland Garros (seedings in parentheses).
Singles
Men
Second Round
Novak Djokovic (4), Serbia, def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1.
Philipp Kohlschreiber (29), Germany, def. Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3.
Third Round
Fernando Verdasco (8), Spain, def. Nicolas Almagro (31), Spain, 6-2, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (8).
Fernando Gonzalez (12), Chile, def. Josselin Ouanna, France, 7-5, 6-3, 7-5.
Nikolay Davydenko (10), Russia, def. Stanislas Wawrinka (17), Switzerland, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Marin Cilic (13), Croatia, def. Radek Stepanek (18), Czech Republic, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Victor Hanescu (30), Romania, def. Gilles Simon (7), France, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.
Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1.
Robin Soderling (23), Sweden, def. David Ferrer (14), Spain, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-2, 7-6 (5).
Andy Murray (3), Britain, def. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, 7-6 (3), 6-3, retired.
Women
Third Round
Aravane Rezai, France, def. Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portugal, 7-6 (3), 6-2.
Ana Ivanovic (8), Serbia, def. Iveta Benesova (32), Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-2.
Dominika Cibulkova (20), Slovakia, def. Gisela Dulko, Argentina, 6-4, 6-2.
Agnes Szavay (29), Hungary, def. Venus Williams (3), United States, 6-0, 6-4.
Dinara Safina (1), Russia, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27), Russia, 6-2, 6-0.
Li Na (25), China, def. Olga Govortsova, Belarus, 7-5, 6-1.
Maria Sharapova, Russia, def. Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Victoria Azarenka (9), Belarus, vs. Carla Suarez Navarro (22), Spain, 5-7, 7-5, susp., darkness.
Doubles
Men
First Round
Mahesh Bhupathi, India, and Mark Knowles (4), Bahamas, def. Josselin Ouanna and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, 6-3, 6-2.
Second Round
Simon Aspelin, Sweden, and Paul Hanley, Australia, def. Frantisek Cermak, Czech Republic, and Michal Mertinak (12), Slovakia, 7-6 (5), 6-3.
Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and Luis Horna (8), Peru, def. Julian Knowle and Jurgen Melzer, Austria, 6-3, 6-4.
Jaroslav Levinsky, Czech Republic, and Igor Zelenay, Slovakia, def. Marcel Granollers and Santiago Ventura, Spain, 6-3, 6-2.
Marc Lopez and Tommy Robredo, Spain, def. Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski (6), Poland, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut, France, def. Travis Parrott, United States, and Filip Polasek (15), Slovakia, 6-2, 6-4.
Wesley Moodie, South Africa, and Dick Norman, Belgium, def. Jan Hernych, Czech Republic, and Christophe Rochus, Belgium, 6-4, 6-4.
Bruno Soares, Brazil, and Kevin Ullyett (5), Zimbabwe, def. Simone Bolelli and Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-3, 6-1.
Michael Kohlmann and Alexander Waske, Germany, def. Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Oliver Marach (9), Austria, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).
Lukas Dlouhy, Czech Republic, and Leander Paes (3), India, def. James Cerretani, United States, and Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Igor Kunitsyn and Dmitry Tursunov, Russia, def. Fabio Fognini, Italy, and Teimuraz Gabashvili, Russia, 6-2, 6-3.
Women
Second Round
Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual (3), Spain, def. Ekaterina Dzehalevich, Belarus, and Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, 6-2, 6-4.
Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Nadia Petrova (10), Russia, def. Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, 6-1, 6-3.
Agnieszka and Urszula Radwanska, Poland, def. Chuang Chia-jung, Taiwan, and Sania Mirza (14), India, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3.
Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs (4), Australia, def. Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spain, and Sara Errani, Italy, 6-3, 6-4.
Cara Black, Zimbabwe, and Liezel Huber (1), United States, def. Jelena Dokic, Australia, and Alisa Kleybanova, Russia, walkover.
Serena and Venus Williams (5), United States, def. Gisela Dulko, Argentina, and Agnes Szavay, Hungary, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Mixed
First Round
Flavia Pennetta, Italy, and Dusan Vemic, Serbia, def. Kveta Peschke and Frantisek Cermak, Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-1.
Vania King, United States, and Marcelo Melo, Brazil, def. Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spain, and Stephen Huss (8), Australia, 6-4, 6-3.
Liezel Huber and Bob Bryan (1), United States, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Kevin Ullyett, Zimbabwe, 7-6 (6), 6-3.
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