French Open, May 25-June 8

[choupi]

After being away from the tennis courts because of an injury on his foot, Marcos is back on the tour for the French Open. It's never easy to be back, so when it's a Grand Slam, it's even more complicated. Just hope the injury is just a memory now.

Official site here: www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/index.html

Allez Marcos!!

[getta]

Marcos' quarter of the draw:

James BLAKE vs. Rainer SCHUETTLER
QUALIFIER vs. Ernests GULBIS

Thierry ASCIONE vs. Bobby REYNOLDS
Nicolas LAPENTTI vs. Janko TIPSAREVIC

Marcos BAGHDATIS vs. Simone BOLELLI
Fabio FOGNINI vs. Juan Martin DEL POTRO

Michael LLODRA vs. Olivier PATIENCE
Robert SMEETS vs. Tomas BERDYCH

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Carlos MOYA vs. QUALIFIER
Marcel GRANOLLERS vs. Michael BERRER

Oscar HERNANDEZ vs. Ivo MINAR
Gustavo KUERTEN vs. Paul-Henri MATHIEU

Guillermo CANAS vs. Wayne ODESNIK
Jonas BJORKMAN vs. Hyung-Taik LEE

Frank DANCEVIC vs. QUALIFIER
Denis GREMELMAYR vs. Novak DJOKOVIC

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Marcos landed on Novak's quarter. Not a bad draw.

[hrastar]

May 23, 2008 6:08:31 GMT -5 getta said:

Marcos landed on Novak's quarter. Not a bad draw.

not bad at all...it's awfull!!

I hope he proves the opposite though

[choupi]

Well, it's not the best draw to come back to competition after a break, that's sure. I don't wanna have too high expectations. As I said, just hope he can play and that the foot injury is behind.

[hrastar]

Who is Marcos' coach now ?

[getta]

May 24, 2008 9:59:00 GMT -5 hrastar said:

Who is Marcos' coach now ?

Yiannos Hatjigeorgiou coaches Marcos for the remaining 3 grand slams this year. In other words, Yiannos responded positively to Marcos' fire alarm...

[getta]

Monday OoP

COURT 2

Match start at 11:00 AM
Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) [17] vs. Simone Bolelli (ITA)

[choupi]

Marcos lost in 3 sets against Bolleli 2-6 4-6 2-6. He was obviously lacking matches, making too many errors against a player who had played, and won, matches on clay lately. I guess this was to be expected. But it was good to see Marcos back on court

[choupi]

Interview of Marcos, after the match:

www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/multimedia/console/mflash.html?targetLink=/media/video/INT.marcos.baghdatis.26052008_EN_480x360_400kbps.flv&lang=en_FR&localisIE=true