Serena Williams will try to turn her devastating Roland Garros first-round loss into a win, by trying to do well in mixed doubles with Bob Bryan. Actually, when you look at Serena's mixed doubles (and regular doubles!) history it's, as you can expect, very successful and the fact that she's paired with a player who's spent over 200 weeks at the No.1 position in doubles (currently he's ranked No.3), I wouldn't be surprised if she wins the trophy. Oh that would be making the best out of the worst situation for Serena.

More than 13 years have passed since Serena last played a mixed doubles competition at the 1999 Australian Open. But her record in that department is 19-3. In five mixed doubles Grand Slams she won two titles – at Wimbledon and the US Open in 1998, and had two runner-up finishes - at Roland Garros in 1998 and the Australian Open in 1999.

Moreover, Bob Bryan is no stranger to the Williams family, as he and Venus were Wimbledon runners-ups in 2006. (via WTA Tour, photo: © Neal Trousdale)

It was the most anticipated match-up of the French Open second round and it ended in just 60 minutes without drama, without competition, twists and turns. Venus Williams walked out of the Court Philippe Chatrier after falling at the hands of world No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2 6-3.

Radwanska covered the court perfectly, her shots were varied and precise, and her unforced errors were down to a minimum (in the first set she committed just four, in the second just two). Venus, on the other hand, didn't bring in much resistance and only helped Radwanska with 33 unforced errors.

Only late in the second set, trailing 1-5, Venus held her serve, then broke Radwanska when she was serving for the match and earned a game point at 40-15 on her own serve. At that moment I had a glimmer of hope that this match would bring some excitement and Venus would just maybe come back, but it didn't happen. Radwanska earned a match point by a wonderful lob and capitalized when Venus sent a forehand long.

Venus' defeat came within just 24 hours after her sister Serena, the hottest favorite for the title, became the biggest news of the tournament by losing in the first round after a nerve-wrecking three-hour match. It was Serena's first ever exit in the first round of a Grand Slam, and she has played 47 first rounds.

Radwanska's opponent in the third round will be seed No.26 and 2009 Roland Garros champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, who defeated Yung-Jan Chan 6-4 7-6(4). (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

After a tough warm-up in the first round of Roland Garros 2012, world No.1 Victoria Azarenka cruised through her second-round match against Dinah Pfizenmaier of Germany in 55 minutes, 6-1 6-1.

Azarenka committed almost six times less unforced errors (11 to 60) than in her opening match against Alberta Brianti, in which the Belarusian won 12 of the last 14 games to come back and celebrate a 6-7(6) 6-4 6-2 victory after being down a set and 0-4.

The 58th-ranked Aleksandra Wozniak, who took out seed No.31 Zheng Jie in the second round, will be Azarenka's opponent in the third round. Interestingly, Wozniak will play world No.1 for the second straight year at Roland Garros. In 2011 she faced Caroline Wozniacki in the second round and lost 6-3 7-6(6). (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

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Serena Williams was the biggest favorite to win Roland Garros 2012 with her 17-0 winning streak on clay this season, but she ended up losing in the first round of a Grand Slam event for the first time in her career! Serena used to be 46-0 in first round at Grand Slams. Now Virginie Razzano has spoiled that perfect record and completely changed the perspective of Roland Garros 2012.

Virginie Razzano lost the pretty calm first set, kept her game on a good level in the relatively steady second set, before bringing her fierce side in the last moment, coming back from 1-5 down in the tiebreak to win the set and then even the match by pulling off the highly-dramatic third set (and even highly-dramatic could be an understatement). Final score: 4-6 7-6(5) 6-3.

The first set started quietly, and even though Razzano broke Williams' serve in the first game and soon after had a 3-1 lead, the slow pace of the match somehow assured me that Williams was yet to switch to a higher gear. In the eighth game, a precise backhand in the corner earned Williams a triple break point and she leveled at 4-4, then held her serve and in the tenth game Razzano surrendered the set with a double fault.

A few more games continued in the pretty steady mood of the first set, but then things heated up when Razzano earned two break points at 2-2 and then the third one with a beautiful battle on the net. However, the entertaining set continued to go with serve until the end. I have to admit that when Serena held her serve to love to lead 6-5, I expected her to finish the job in the following game, but the sturdy Razzano converted entertainment into drama, forced the tiebreak AND from 1-5 down in the tiebreak she won 13 straight points to win the set and lead 1-0 40-0 in the third set. Oh, and I forgot to mention that Serena was crying after she lost the second set, as if she knew the defeat was looming. Read more »