After three hot days a chill descends on Roland Garros for the French Open second round but the cold doesn't stop Robin Soderling, taking the first set against Taylor Dent 6-0
Dent scores just five points in the first set, none in the first four games, and the American-Australian hardly manages to raise himself in the second or third sets, losing them 6-1 6-1 to the Swedish world number seven
Venus Williams, one of only five American women in the world top 100, wins 6-2 6-4 against Arantxa Parra Santonja as the Spaniard attempts to overcome Williams' intimidation with an aggressive front-foot game
Varvara Lepchenko, one of Williams' compatriots but outside the top 100, is on course for an upset, however, taking the first set 6-4 against 26th seed Dominika Cibulkova
Cibulkova, the 5ft 3in Slovakian who reached last year's French Open semi-finals, has only two clay-court wins this season but comes back to take the second set 6-2 before crushing Lepchenko 6-0 in the decider
Daniel Gimeno-Traver, who has never been past this round in Paris, loses in three straight sets, 3-6 6-7 2-6, to Marin Cilic, who may be 10th seed but is on his least-favoured surface
Hungary's Agnes Szavay shouldn't be too disappointed going out to Nadia Petrova - seeded 19th and having made the quarters three times this year on clay in Charleston, Rome and Madrid
Julien Benneteau, playing in front of home support and roughly the same height and weight as Leonardo Mayer, takes the first set tie-break against the Argentine six years his junior, only to lose the next three sets
It's an all-French affair on Lenglen as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga tears through Josselin Ouanna, 6-0 6-1 6-4, far quicker than when the two friends met in Marseille this year (five sets including a 20-point tie-break)
World number one Roger Federer faces Alejandro Falla of Colombia on Court Philippe-Chatrier and the Swiss wins the first set on a tie-break before rain sweeping in from Court 17 stops play across Roland Garros
Federer makes the second set look easy, winning 6-2, but the dark clouds gather and the rain begins again, delaying his eventual win, 6-4 in the third set
France's Aravane Rezai and Germany's Angelique Kerber each win a set 6-2 though the intermittent bad weather is as influential as the tennis as Rezai must recover both footing and forehand to win the decider 6-3
The rain doesn't stop Maria Kirilenko of Russia from knocking out Yvonne Meusburger of Austria for the second time in a Grand Slam this year, 6-3 6-3
Andrea Petkovic is 5-2 up against defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, drawn back to 5-4, but holds serve to win the first set from the Russian before blowing four match points to lose the second
Defending champion Kuznetsova eventually grinds out a 4-6 7-5 6-4 win over her German opponent and will now face compatriot Maria Kirilenko in the next round
British number one Andy Murray is in sublime form during the opening exchanges of his encounter with Juan Ignacio Chela as he breezes through the set 6-2 but bad light halts the second set at 3-3
Gael Monfils loses then recovers his break against Italian Fabio Fognini on Chatrier, before kicking up a gear to take the opening two sets 6-2 6-4
Monfils loses the next two sets to Fabio Fognini and the players are forced to play on in pitch darkness before they are hauled off at 5-5 in the decider
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