Roland Garros 2013: Best Matches to Watch in Saturday’s French Open Action

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Published: June 1, 2013

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Now the French Open starts getting good.

It's always fun to watch and see which unseeded players can make a deep run, but you mostly watch tennis for the stars. With Saturday's third-round play, you're going to see the best players begin to really trim the herd.

There haven't been a ton of big upsets just yet. No. 5 Tomas Berdych is the highest seed in the men's singles draw to have exited after he lost in the first round to Gael Monfils. Li Na, seeded sixth, lost to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and is the highest women's seed to have been eliminated.

The three matches ahead might not feature the best players in the tournament, but they are the most interesting and should be the most fun to watch.

 

No. 7 Richard Gasquet vs. Nikolay Davydenko



It's always entertaining to watch players try to win Grand Slams on their home soil.

Richard Gasquet isn't the highest-seeded Frenchman left—that would be Jo-Willfried Tsonga—but he'll have the weight of a country on his shoulders as well as he looks to become the first Frenchman since Yannick Noah in 1983 to win a men's singles title at Roland Garros.

Gasquet has been very good in the first two rounds, beating both Sergiy Stakhovsky and Michal Przysiezny in straight sets.

His opponent, Nikolay Davydenko, has done well in the first two rounds, also taking out both his opponents in straight sets. Unfortunately, his buildup to the French Open has been lackluster. Davydenko lost in the first or second round in each of his last eight tournaments coming into Roland Garros.

He's also had problems against Gasquet throughout his career (h/t Betfred):



Don't expect to see the Frenchman knocked out the tournament just yet.

 

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