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French Open:
Was surprised Chiba and Guha split. Neither pairing got far in doubles. Solberg has teamed up with Kasper with world no. 1 Godinic teaming up with Nives. This left the Irish pairing of Hart/Hughes as top seeds. They delivered on the week. Beating Kasper/Solberg in the semis and Godinic/Nives in the final putting them close to o. 1 in the world!
In the singles it seemed pretty open with 3 clay slam winners going in though Perez had still to be favourite as defending champion and winner of one of the slams.
Vemireddy drew a low seed in Jaak Christ round 1. A tough battle ensued that saw the Sri Lankan lose a 5 setter. Kayeeda drew a tough match against Haas which was as one sided as one would expect.
Chiba went out in round 2. Rublev was about a good a seed as he could draw but his singles abilities have slid too much to get far anymore.
Pieter de Boer was the only seed not to make it to round 3 with a loss to little known Argentinian Abastras.
Seeding largely held to the quarters. De Jong beat Haas in a battle of the Dutch and Kasaveralli had a nice win against Jung to make another slam quarter final. Then things got weirder. The top half held seed with Perez and Veilla getting the job done but Mpataki beat Wentz and incredibly Kasaveralli beat Aviles on clay. On clay that is an incredible result for his first slam semi final!
Unfortunately he couldn't beat Mpataki who was in his first slam final (surprising he had never been in one) vs Perez. Perez got out to a 2 set lead easily before losing the 3rd and needing a late comeback in the 4th, winning his 9th slam on the tie break. Heatches Hart and moves ahead of that group including Mehul on 8.
This does give him a lot more breathing room at the top given his second half of the season was not too strong last season and keeps up his incredible slam final record of 9 wins in 11. Aviles first shock win and Wentz in the US last season being the only losses.
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