French Open 2012 Scores: Latest Updates from Prestigious Clay Courts

As day three of the 2012 French Open continues, the early headlines belong to Maria Sharapova and her quick ouster of Alexandra Cadantu.

Sharapova, the No. 2 seed in the women’s draw, defeated Cadantu 6-0, 6-0 in just 48 minutes to keep her chances of reaching her first French Open Finals alive.

On the men’s side, No. 6 seed David Ferrer defeated Lukas Lacko in three sets.

Other updates include:

 

Men’s Singles

No. 17 Richard Gasquet defeated Jurgen Zopp 6-3, 6-4, 7-6

No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic defeated Sam Querrey 2-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3

Tommy Haas defeated Filippo Volandri 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4

Jeremy Chardy defeated Yen-Hsun Lu

Dmitry Tursunov defeated Go Soeda

Grigor DiMitrov defeated Donald Young

Sergiy Stakhovsky defeated Alexandr Dolgopolov

Eduardo Schwank defeated Ivo Karlovic

Jarkko Nieminen defeated Igor Andreev

Florian Mayer defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver

 

Women’s Singles

No. 14 Francesca Schiavone defeated Kimiko Date-Krumm 6-3, 6-1

No. 4 Petra Kvitova defeated Ashleigh Barty 6-1, 6-2

Urszula Radwanska defeated Pauline Parmentier

Lourdes Dominguez Lino defeated Marina Erakovic

Arantxa Rus defeated Jamie Hampton

Ayumi Morita defeated Polona Hercog

Heather Watson defeated Elena Vesnina

Melinda Czink defeated Anne Keothavong

Tsvetana Pironkova defeated Yanina Wickmayer

Julia Goerges defeated Lucie Hradecka

Klara Zakopalova defeated Lesia Tsurenko

Greta Arn defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

 

Later Today

Rafael Nadal, Julien Benneteau, Juan Monaco, Kaia Kanepi and Nicolas Almagro currently have matches underway, while Serena Williams, Caroline Wozniacki, Shuai Peng, Maria Kirilenko, James Blake and Mikhail Youzhny also have scheduled matches for today.