Reuters
Paris, May 30: The French Open suffered its first complete washout since 2000 here Monday when all scheduled matches were cancelled due to heavy rains. “Due to weather, there will be no matches played at #RG16 today (Monday),” said the Roland Garros Twitter feed.
Meanwhile Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza lost their cool as their hopes of holding all four Grand Slam titles were dashed following a 3-6, 2-6 defeat by Czech duo Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova in the third round match of the French Open, played late Sunday evening.
The Indo-Swiss combo was hoping to win four Majors in a row after following up last year’s Wimbledon and US Open triumphs with victory in January’s Australian Open.
But the top seeds appeared all at sea on a gloomy day at Roland Garros and their bid to complete the ‘SanTina Slam’ ended after the Czechs blasted a service return winner to break Hingis in the final game.
Hingis and Mirza were left fuming at the umpire after a call went against them as they trailed 1-4 in the second set. Mirza tossed the ball in anger but the duo failed to win the argument, or the match, leaving Krejcikova and Siniakova to celebrate a memorable victory.
In men’s singles matches played Sunday, third seed Stan Wawrinka and second seed Andy Murray while local hope Richard Gasquet bundled out fifth seed Kei Nishikori.
Wawrinka beat Viktor Troicki 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (7-9), 6-3, 6-2 while Murray’s 7-6 (11-9), 6-4, 6-3 defeat of John Isner was entirely predictable, even if the second seed had to save three set points in the opener.
Three-time semifinalist Murray will play Richard Gasquet, who had the crowd in raptures on Court Philippe Chatrier with a scintillating 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 win over Japanese fifth seed Kei Nishikori.
