Who's first up on Monday? It's world number three Novak Djokovic - eyeing a third French Open semi-final in four years - taking on American Robby Ginepri. It's an easy start for the Serb taking the first set
But the unseeded American - world ranked 98 - blasts his way back into the match and wins the second set comfortably 6-2. Could there be a big shock in store at Roland Garros?
Djokovic finds his feet on the sticky clay and roars back to easily take the last two sets to come through 6-4 2-6 6-1 6-2. Next up on Phillipe Chatrier is number one Serena Williams and Israel's Shahar Peer
Spot the missing item. Over on Court Suzanne Lenglen Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili is facing 22nd seed Jurgen Melzer for the right to face Djokovic. It's a tight battle with the first two sets shared
But it is agony for Russian Gabashvili, Andy Roddick's conqueror, as Melzer makes his experience tell, taking the third set 6-1 before wrapping up victory
Melzer, the oldest man left in the draw at 29, is the first Austrian player to reach the quarter-finals at Roland Garros since Thomas Muster in 1998
Serena needs a little over an hour to beat Peer and book a possible quarter-final against long-time rival Justine Henin
But Henin has a battle on her hands against last year semi-finalist Sam Stosur, who takes the four-time champion into a third set
Stosur lets slip a break in the decider but holds nerve in a tense finale to serve out a 2-6 6-1 6-4 victory and book a quarter-final with Williams
A shell-shocked Henin, who ended a 20-month retirement in January, is left to contemplate a first defeat at Roland Garros since 2004, a run of 24 wins
No such problems Rafael Nadal, like Henin a four-time champion, as the Spaniard completes a straight-sets win over the talented but error-prone Thomaz Bellucci
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