Wawrinka crashes out of Paris right in the first round

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It was too early perhaps for world number 3 Stan Wawrinka to bid farewell to Paris and become the first major casualty at the hands of a 41st ranked Garcia-Lopez right in the first round of Roland Garros yesterday.

Having lost the first set to Garcia-Lopez 4-6, Wawrinka did try to comeback into the game by winning the second set 7-5, but Garcia-Lopez proved too good for him and beat him 6-2 and even 6-0 to move on to perhaps surprise others.

Having won the Australian Open at the start of the year, a confident and rather aggressive Wawrinka was looking to grab the French title to win bot Grand Slams in the same year as did Jim Courier in 1992.

Garcia-Lopez, ranked 41st, now faces France's Adrian Mannarino in round two.

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Novak Djokovic Ousted from Madrid by Grigor Dimitrov

The second round match between world no.1 Serbian Novak Djokovic and 28th ranked Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov was a total fiasco and a great setback for the world no.1 as Grigor Dimitrov sent him out of Madrid in a show of force match.

Grigor Dimitrov  beat Djokovic 7-6 (8-6) 6-7 (8-10) 6-3.

Perhaps it was Djokovic's knee that did not support his form and game as he came tro Madrid after winning his third title of the year at last month's Monte Carlo Masters.

Dimitrov, who beat Javier Marti in the first round, too had an injury break of his own and looked physically drained after the second set.

Dimitrov won the Wimbledon and US Open junior titles in 2008 and has long been seen as a future star and potential world number one.

( via BBC Sport / Tennis )
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Venus crashes out of Olympics Tennis

Well upsets do occur and this time it was American Venus Williams to succumb to the upsets. 

Venus crashes out of Olympics medal race

In her third round match against German Angelique Kerber, Venus could not over power her opponent and crashed out of the Olympic medal race 6-7, 6-7.

Venus, who won a gold in Sydney Olympics 2000, was all set to move forward and win a medal of any sorts.

Venus' crashing out now places onus on the younger Williams, Serna to carry on and win the gold for America. Serena is in her superb form after her fifth Wimbledon title recently. She crusies forward by winning over the 2008 silver medal winner Vera Zvonareva 6-1, 6-0.

As for other ladies, world no.3 and former world no.1 until recently when she crashed out of the Wimbledon Russian Maria Sharapova, the Russian flag bearer in Olympics this year, faces former world number one Kim Clijsters in the quarter finals.  Clijsters beat Serbia's Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-4.

World no.1 Victoria Azarenka cruises to the quarter finals after she beat Russian Nadia Petrova 7-6, 6-4. She now faces Venus Williams' conqueror Angelique Kerber.