Andy will be down at Wimbledon in the week beforehand working tirelessly to get that backhand and first serve firing consistently, but it's about taking your game from the practice court to the match court.
The opening match on Court Philippe Chatrier Tuesday exemplified the trend: Francesca Schiavone, who turns 32 next month, beat 41-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm.
Djokovic will next face Roger Federer, who easily dispatched home hope hope Andreas Seppi 6-1 6-2 in the final match on court Friday.
The Spanish seventh seed also won his second-round match on Court Central, coming from behind to beat Italy's Andreas Seppi 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 6-4.
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Despite winning only two matches in her previous eight visits to SW19, Keothavong , the world number 51, was expected to beat Mayr - who is ranked 29 places below her - in her match on Court Four.
The defending champion came through 5-7 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7-1) 6-0 in an astonishing opening match on Centre Court.
That could mean a last-eight clash with world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, who survived a second-set scare to beat 79th-ranked Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 6-1 3-6 6-1 in her opening match on Centre Court.
The intervening match on Centre Court saw unseeded pair Britain's Jonny Marray and Denmark's Freddie Nielsen beat Sweden's Robert Lindstedt and Romania's Horia Tecau 4-6 6-4 7-6 6-7 6-3 in a thrilling men's doubles final.
But the sixth seed -- who had won just one clay-court match this year prior to facing Cirstea -- suddenly found her form in devastating fashion, winning 11 of the next 12 games to run out a comfortable 6-3 6-1 winner.
Murray, who now lost successive first round matches after reaching the final of the Australian Open in January, was beaten 6-2 6-1 by world number 33 Philipp Kohlschreiber in just over an hour of his maiden clay-court match of the season.
It was Federer's first opening round loss at the Foro Italico since losing to Andrea Gaudenzi in 2002 -- and the first time since the 2000 Monte Carlo Masters that the Swiss maestro had lost his first clay-court match of the season.
Govortsova put out former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in her opening match at the clay court event.
Meanwhile, on the WTA Tour, China's Li Na reached the quarterfinals of the Stuttgart tournament with a straight sets win in her first match of the clay court season.
They would match the elite front court of Chandler, Stoudemire and Anthony with a C-list guard duo of Landry Fields and, for now, Toney Douglas, since Chauncey Billups would have to be jettisoned for salary-cap purposes.
He'd meet more Neudeutsch on the tennis court (Match-Point, Tie-Break) or golf course though he never played enough of that game even to get a Handi kap (or, by now, -cap), sadly gehandicapt for business life as this has left him.
In 2007, he lucked out when highly-seeded Richard Gasquet defaulted his match before even taking the court, earning an easy trip to the third round.
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Coverted threats of taking the life ban imposed on his match-fixing ban to court made through his lawyers haven't ruffled the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as yet.
"It took a lot of hard work to get back into shape and I have a few people to thank, including my fitness coach and husband, " Clijsters said on-court after the match.
In searing early afternoon heat on the Stadium court, the match evolved into a baseline battle and Agassi began to hit harder and deeper before moving a break ahead at 4-3, only for Henman to break back.
In the end, his green court glory was no match for the green in his bank.
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World number 19 Youzhny closed out the match after just 58 minutes on court for the fourth title of his career.
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The Frenchman then increased the tempo, breaking Schalken to win the set at love and the match after 1hr 38 min on court.
It came down to a tie-break and Jankovic set about denying the Centre Court a second sensational match of the day as she moved 4-1 clear.
Fay sued and won a court order requiring a match for the Cup, but Conner outsmarted him by building a speedy catamaran that sailed circles around Fay's 90-foot monohull.
Amid security fears over the appearance of Israeli peer, the match was played on a smaller outside court with restricted access rather than the 5, 000 seater capacity center court.
If he retains his title, extending his record to seven overall in the indoor hard-court event, he will match third-placed John McEnroe on the ATP's career title list with 77.
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Wasim Akram was reinstated as Pakistan captain last year when an inquiry into bribery and match-fixing in the Pakistan High Court that had initially recommended a heavy fine cleared his name.
And Nadal used to be the greatest by a mile at wriggling out of impossible situations, at saving crucial break points and hitting passing shots from awkward positions on the court, especially when a match was on the line.
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