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Henman need to progress in Paris to reach Shanghai

All the action as it happened in the third round match between Tim Henman and Nicolas Escude at the Paris Masters Series event.

The British number one and sixth seed was comprehensively outplayed by the Frenchman, leaving his hopes of reaching the Shanghai Masters tournament in the balance.

Henman 4-6 2-6 Escude
Escude ends Henman's weak resistance, allowing him only one point in the last game to reach the quarter-finals.

Henman 4-6 2-5 Escude
Henman's game - and his plans for playing in Shanghai - are now in disarray as Escude breaks him again with another love game.

Henman 4-6 2-4 Escude
Henman goes 0-30 up on Escude's serve, then leads 15-40 before the Frenchman levels at deuce and goes on to take a two-game lead.

Henman 4-6 2-3 Escude
Escude steps up a gear again to break the Henman serve to love, leaving the Briton with it all to do to get back into the match.

Henman 4-6 2-2 Escude Escude wins his service game to love as he continues to make Henman look second best.

Henman 4-6 2-1 Escude Henman settles into the set with a second win on his service game.

Henman 4-6 1-1 Escude
Escude levels the set with another assured display and continues to have the upper hand in the match.

Henman 4-6 1-0 Escude
Henman begins the second set with a straightforward service game win but needs to find a way to get on top of his French opponent.

Henman 4-6 Escude
Escude clinches the first set with a love game in just under an hour to leave Henman with an uphill battle.

Henman 4-5 Escude
The Frenchman makes a decisive second break to leave Henman on the brink of going a set down in three best-of-three sets encounter.

Henman 4-4 Escude
Escude comfortably holds his serve and looks the more confident of the two men as the set approaches its climax.

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Escude took the first set
Henman 4-3 Escude
Henman holds his nerve and serve to regain the lead, but the Frenchman is making life difficult for the world number seven.

Henman 3-3 Escude
Escude then holds his own serve to level the match, and the momentum now appears to be with the home favourite.

Henman 3-2 Escude
Escude bounces straight back again by breaking a nervous-looking Henman's serve to close the gap.

Henman 3-1 Escude Sixth seed Henman regains his two-game lead with another break of serve.

Henman 2-1 Escude
Henman fails to capitalise on his breakthrough as he allows the Frenchman to break back immediately.

Henman 2-0 Escude
Escude loses his opening service game to hand the British number one an early advantage.

Henman 1-0 Escude
Henman serves first and eases into the lead against a French opponent who clearly has the crowd on his side.


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