At 2-2 Gulbis breaks the Monfils serve, but Monfils breaks back immediately. 3-3 in the second set.
At 5-4 Monfils breaks the gulbis serve to take the second set.
At least two more sets to go now.
Gulbis breaks the Monfils serve and holds his ownfor a two games to love lead in the third set.
Monfils holds serve to make it 2-1 to Gulbis, but Gulbis is still a break up.
Monfils has break point....and makes it stick! 2-2 third set.
Monfils holds his serve and breaks Gulbis again!
4-2 Monfils, 2nd set.
They both hold their next serves. 5-3 Monfils.
Monfils serving for the 3rd set now.
But after FIVE deuces Gulbis takes the game, and is serving to even the set....which he does. 5-5 third set.
A six deuce game and it is 6-5 Monfils - third set.
Gulbis serving to stay in the third set - and bring it to another tie-breaker.
And he does it with ease.
After some near impossible shots Monfils wins the tie-break and is now leading 2 sets to 1.
5 games of the 4th set played and it's 4-1 Monfils having brokenGulbis twice.
5-2 Monfils and he's serving for the match.
And after dropping only one point, it's Game, Set and Match to Monfils.
Well done Monfills
Gulbis is one to watch ofr the future
Well done Puerto Rican prospect Monica Puig â triumphed over 11th seed Nadia Petrova in a tough first round 3-aetter, then saw off highly rated (and much higher ranked than herself) American Madison Keys in straight sets in the second round. Next she will play 20th seed Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain.
*Have to confess I had not heard of her before tonight when I noticed Judy Murray exchanging tweets with herâĶ and even then I firstly assumed @MonicaAce93 was merely a fan of the Murray boys!
Well, it seems that the tennis is rained off again!
Novak Djokovic on Chatrier versus Guido Pella at the moment.
We have play!
Djokovic match.
He's just won the first set 6-2 and broken Pella for a 2-0 lead in the second set, with his serve next.
It's raining again, the players are going off, but it's expected to be a short break.
Some matches never stopped and most that did have re-started, but the two show courts haven't and apparently the crowd aren't happy!
The match restarted after about 14 minutes and after a short time it was Game, Set and Match to Djokovic.
Nadal's just come on court now.
However I believe everything's been rained off again.
My freeview has just lost !TV4 - so no more tennis!
YAY! I have ITV4 back. I'm watching Nadal v Klizan
One set all and one game all in the third set.
Nadal has just broken the Klizan service.
2-1 Nadal in the third set with his own serve to come.
Nadal takes the third set by breaking Klizan again, so will serve first in the 4th set.
2-1 Nadal in the 4th set. It's a break apiece though.
3-1 Nadal. He's broken Klizan again.
Nadal holds his own serve to make it 4-1, 4th set.
Nadal breaks Klizan for the third time to take a 5-1 lead in the 4th set.
He now is serving for the match.
0-15
0-30
0-40
Maybe we're not so close to a finish after all!
And with a great smash Klizan breaks the Nadal serve for the second time in this set.
5-2 Nadal, 4th set.
Klizan holds serve to make it 5-3 Nadal, but he's still a break down and Nadal is serving for the match once again.
A lackluster game concludes with Klizan putting an almost winner a fraction long.
Game, Set and Match to Nadal, 3 sets to 1.
Federer v Benneteau now.
It was alrady underway before the Nadal match finished.
4-3 Federer, 1st set.
And Beneteau looking about to lose his serve.
Which he did.
Federer serving for the set - and he takes it with ease.
4-4 second set - no breaks.
But Federer has just broken for 5-4, with his serve to come.