French Open 2016 Results: Top Scores, and Highlights from Early Matches

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Published: May 30, 2016

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The 2016 French Open has been filled to the brim with thrills and spills over the first week of competition results, and Monday's rain stoppage presented an ideal moment to pause and celebrate the highlights so far.

Sky Sports reported this was the first time in 16 years that an entire day of play was abandoned due to the conditions, but those still left in the running may be pleased at the prospect of an extra day off.

And rightly so, given the top scores thus far in the tournament have been of a mighty calibre, with monolithic talents and minnows alike falling by the wayside en route to the quarter-final stage.

We've looked back over the first week of the 2016 French Open and picked out some of the best moments and biggest results so far from Roland Garros.



 

Radwanska and Strycova: Started from the Bottom It's hardly uncommon to see a payer finish a point off their feet at the top level of tennis, even less so on a clay surface, but to see two players end up on their backsides simultaneously is an altogether more rare phenomenon.

That being said, Paris was treated to a display of that very spectacle in the third-round meeting between women's No. 2 seed Agnieszka Radwanska and opponent Barbora Strycova, as shown by We Are Tennis:



It was ultimately Czech contender Strycova who emerged from the duel victorious, which was just as well given she was 3-0 down in the second set and managed to turn the tables and take the set shortly thereafter.

It would count for nought in the end, as she ultimately slipped to a 2-6, 7-6(6), 2-6 defeat against hot favourite Radwanska, but the pair enjoyed a moment sure to make it into this year's French Open blooper reel.

 

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