Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic fought hard to avoid the fate of countrywoman Ana Ivanovic and survive the challenge of Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi to reach the third round of the 2010 French Open.

The fourth-seeded Jankovic cruised through the first set, before losing the second set to the 118th-ranked qualifier Kanepi, who was a Top 20 player a year ago. In the decider, Jankovic couldn’t capitalize on her 4-2 lead right away,  but from 4-all she confidently finished the match 6-2 3-6 6-4 and leveled her career record against Kanepi at 1-1.

Jankovic’s opponent in the third round will be seed No.27 Alona Bondarenko.

Additional info: This is not related to this match and Roland Garros, but it is to Jankovic. Remember Jankovic's imitation of Ivanovic's fist pumping? Well, both were asked about the incident, and their comments are hilarious. Like none of them wanted to comment on it, but of course they couldn't help it. As you can imagine, Ivanovic had more control over herself. Read on. (photo: Stephane Martinache)

Ana Ivanovic’s second-round match against Alisa Kleybanova was delayed by rain, but the inevitable was apparently waiting for Ivanovic and the former French Open champion lost with a stunning 6-3 6-0 score, with sets lasting 33 minutes each.

This has been Ivanovic’s earliest exit at the French Open ever! However, losing to Kleybanova is nothing new to the former world No.1 Ivanovic, as it has happened three of four times they played.

Kleybanova’s victory over Ivanovic at the 2010 French Open is not an upset, since the Russian is seeded 28th and Ivanovic’s low ranking, No.42 at present, ensured she wasn’t seeded. Both players had 6 break points in the match: Kleybanova converted five, while Ivanovic converted only one.

Kleybanova reached her first third round at the French Open, where she will play either eighth seed Agnieszka Radwanska or Yaroslava Shvedova. (photo: sr_cranks)

Germany’s No.1 player Andrea Petkovic had four match points against defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, but the Russian scraped through the rain-affected match to reach the third round of the French Open. Kuznetsova had actually lost to Petkovic one, their last meeting in Tokyo in 2009.

The world No.41 Petkovic had triple match point at 6-4 5-4 and another one in the same game. The sixth-seeded Kuznetsova saved them all and won the second set 7-5. The Russian then stormed into a 5-2 lead in the third set, but the decider didn't end so quickly, as Petkovic saved three match points before Kuznetsova eventually won 4-6 7-5 6-4.

Next for Kuznetsova is fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko, seeded 30th, who beat Yvonne Meusburger 6-3 6-3 in the second round. (photos: Stephane Martinache)

Grand Slams are the places where tennis players want to look their best and sponsors want to use the opportunity of huge publicity to market their products. Let's have a look at what women's tennis stars are sporting during one such event, Roland Garros 2010 in Paris.

Venus Williams raised many eyebrows by her lingerie-like black dress. But the dress raises all the eyebrows when in action!

Sorana Cirstea lost on Day one to Svetlana Kuznetsova, but her adidas dress can win all the awards, if you asked me. Just like Ana Ivanovic's.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands is wearing her cool tube socks and looks sporty. Well, Venus took Bethanie's role of ball boy distractor. Caroline Wozniacki, nice dress but nothing new, really nothing. Read more »

Four-time French Open champion Justine Henin was making her first appearance at the tournament since winning it in 2007 and defeated Tsvetana Pironkova 6-4 6-3 to reach the second round. The Belgian world No.23 now has 22 straight wins at the French Open, and 21 of those came between 2005 and 2007, in the period Henin won three straight titles in Paris. In addition, the 27-year-old Henin has won 37 straight sets at the tournament, which is the longest streak in the Open Era.

Ninth seed Dinara Safina, finalist here in Paris last year and the year before, was stunned by world No.72 Kimiko Date Krumm in the first round already. The 39-year-old Date Krumm, who made her French Open debut when her today’s opponent was only three-years-old, scored a 3-6 6-4 7-5 victory. The former world No.1 Safina made 17 double faults.

The 1995 French Open semifinalist Date Krumm, who returned to tennis in 2008 after a 12-year retirement, became the second oldest player to win a main draw women's singles match at the tournament since the game turned professional.

Seed No.22 Henin will play Klara Zakopalova in the second round, while Date Krumm will face Jarmila Groth. (photos: HWeidemannPhotography, sydney-yokochin)