Sports Thread #1 for 5/24/09: The French Open Begins

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In the major where Dinara Safina had better win and any American man reaching the fourth round of the tournament is an accomplishment, the French Open has started happily. No rain so far, but great thrilling tennis.

In the match of the day, Lleyton Hewitt just beat the nemesis who ended his days at number one back six years ago in an all time Wimbledon shocker, Ivo Karlovic, in a five set thriller. Hewitt was down two sets to none, and someone, produced one of his classic warrior mentality moments to advance.

The horribly out of form Ana Ivanovic, who some thought wouldn't even be able to defend her title here because of her right knee, had another shaky start to a tournament with an arduous 7-6, 6-3 win over the game Sara Errani of Italy.

And hey, Marat Safin still exists, and on his best day the Russian still can play worth more than a damn. He showed that today in easily dispatching a name a lot of people (including myself) never saw before in Frenchmen Alexandre Sidorenko in straight sets.

TWD will have more on the French Open later.

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