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• watson loses 6-3 , 6-4 to big-serving german julia goerges• 20-year-old from guernsey defeated but shows improvementwhile maria sharapova was caught in the log-jam building up in behind the epic men's match taking place in fading light on nearby court philippe chatrier , heather watson disappeared from the french open in the second round with a stout but disappointing loss on thursday to the excellent german julia goerges.the guernsey player , not long turned 20 , did not have the firepower to hold off or consistently inconvenience the tall , imposing goerges who completed a 6-3 , 6-4 win on the compact , noisy court no2.still , watson shows regular signs of improvement and , after returning from injury , has a glow about her t she reckons she deserves to be in this company and wants desperately to move back into the top 100 t a wild card to the olympics would be a palliative , but her tennis is getting stronger by the match , regardless.this is her second consecutive appearance in the second round here and she was the last british woman to leave the tournament after the quick departures of laura robson , anne keothavong and elena baltacha.watson , a fine and mobile athlete with a keen tennis brain , ought to be encouraged by the ramped-up power in her all-round game , especially her serve.goerges , though , has a monster , bullying first serve t her 202kph in the first round here against the czech lucie hradecka was the fastest this year and only the williams sisters and brenda schultf-mccarthy have hit faster recorded bullets in the history of the game t however , she did not unload her first ace until the sixth game , to go 5-2 ahead.watson has been working on her serve , as well – she had hit 18 aces in four matches here , three of those in a flawless qualifying tournament – and replied with two clean winners of her own to hold and stay in the hunt at 3-5 t it was an uncompromising physical encounter , with the german , three years older at 23 , having an edge in raw power t when she held with ease to take the set 6-3 , it was plain that watson needed to find an alternative to the slug-fest.it was hard to hold concentration with the hysteria of john isner's long struggle against the frenchman paul-henri mathieu drifting noisily over from philippe chatrier , and watson seemed more unsettled than goerges t the 27th seed broke at the first opportunity in the second , as both players hit erratically t the rallies were short , which did not suit watson , whose rare success came through angled chips that left the german stranded on her power-platform at the back of the court.watson broke back to level at 2-2 , and her demeanour changed t the fight resumed t there was new hope t but , as hard as she fought , she could not find the chink in goerges's considerable armour to take it to a third set.she converted three of five break points in the match but could not get a stretch of dominance going against an opponent with an edge in experience t five double faults did not help the briton's cause , either , as nerves took hold at crucial moments.sharapova , the tournament favourite , meanwhile took an early break and will return on friday to play her match against japan's ayumi morita on the centre court that hosted another isner classic , the american going out after five extraordinary sets.at least watson knows she is moving in good company these days.french open 2012heather watsonfrench opentenniskevin mitchellguardian.co.uk
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• world no75 beaten 7-6 , 3-6 , 6-2 by klara zakopalova• londoner broken in fourth game of deciding setanne keothavong has been knocked out of the budapest grand prix in the first round by the fourth seed klara zakopalova.the world no75 , from london , had chances to spring a surprise but let a set point slip in the first set and was eventually beaten 7-6 , 3-6 , 6-2 in two hours 38 minutes.with zakopalova , who is from the czech republic , serving at 3-5 in the first set , keothavong missed a break-point opportunity and was then broken for the fourth time as a see-saw set went to a tie-break.she led 2-1 with a mini-break only to drop three points in succession and lose the tie-break 7-3 and the set in an hour and four minutes.the second set saw keothavong level the match , two breaks of serve setting up a 6-3 success.she was broken in the fourth game of the decider and though she immediately hit back , that was to be the last game she won as two more breaks carried zakopalova to victory.anne keothavongtennisguardian.co.uk
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• both players win their respective quarter-finals in straight sets• stosur will go into thursday's match as the strong favouritesam stosur reached the french open semi-finals for the third time in four years with a 6-4 , 6-1 victory over slovakia's dominika cibulkova on court philippe chatrier.the us open champion , who lost to francesca schiavone in the paris final in 2010 , was too powerful for the 5ft 3in cibulkova , the conqueror of the world no1 , victoria azarenka , in the fourth round.cibulkova mounted a brief comeback in the opening set , pulling back from 5-2 down to 5-4 , and twice she had a chance to level , but stosur held firm and clinched the game with two massive forehands t it was a shot that cibulkova simply had no answer to , and in the second set a relaxed-looking stosur breezed through , sealing victory at the first opportunity when her opponent netted an attempted drop shot.the 28-year-old sixth seed will now be the hot favourite to reach another final having seen all the other big names in her half of the draw fall away.in the last four stosur will play italy's sara errani , who claimed her first victory over a top-10 player in 29 attempts by defeating german 10th seed angelique kerber 6-3 , 7-6 (7-2).errani is enjoying a terrific season and has now bettered her performance at the australian open , where she reached the last eight before losing to petra kvitova.the 25-year-old made a great start against kerber and held her advantage throughout the first set , but the second was a topsy-turvy affair featuring eight breaks of serve.kerber has had a remarkable run , climbing from outside the top 100 last august to 10th in the world , but she could not find the consistency required to defeat a player of errani's guile on clay t twice she served for the second set but on both occasions errani broke back , and the italian was the better player in the tie-break.reaching the final looks a tough ask , though , with stosur having won all their previous five meetings , the most recent of which came in rome last month.french open 2012french opentennisguardian.co.uk
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• sam stosur prevails in straight sets• laura robson gets in as lucky loserelena baltacha is out of the french open , the british no1 losing in straight sets to the us open champion sam stosur.baltacha managed to trouble the world no6 stosur in the first set but after coming back from a break down she then lost seven successive games to suffer a 6-4 , 6-0 first-round defeat.the 28-year-old fell an immediate break down but then competed well to recover and close to 5-4 t serving in the 10th game , baltacha conceded another break and consequently the set , and the world no68 , dressed all in blue on the paris clay , crumbled from that stage on.there were flickers from the british player's racket in the second set , notably a fierce forehand that whistled past stosur as it landed just inside the baseline , but they were infrequent.the match was afforded the stadium stage of the philippe chatrier court but it became a no-contest as baltacha , who struggled with her serve , won just nine points in the second set.stosur , runner-up to francesco schiavone at roland garros two years ago , clinched victory on her third match point to reach the last f4.laura robson , meanwhile , has earned a place in the main draw as a lucky loser courtesy of silvia soler-espinosa's ankle injury.the 18-year-old held two match points in her final qualifying round game with czech karolina pliskova on friday but could not take them and eventually lost in three sets.however , robson was the first alternate and it seemed almost certain she would get in when soler-espinosa hurt an ankle in practice on saturday t the briton will find it tough to make it further , though , as she slots in against the world no29 and clay-court specialist anabel medina garrigues of spain.the pair have met once before , in the second round of the us open last year , where the extra experience of medina garrigues counted in a straight-sets win.robson has now made the main draw at four successive grand slam events having earned a wild card at wimbledon and qualified at the us open and australian open t she was the fourth briton in the main draw , making it the most in the first round at roland garros for 21 years.elena baltachafrench open 2012french openlaura robsontennisguardian.co.uk
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