French Open 2012: Day 3 Scores, Results and Recap

We finally have our first shocker of the French Open—Serena Williams is finished.

In a tournament that until now was devoid of any enormous shockers, the elimination of Williams will reverberate around the tennis world. She was 17-0 on clay this year and came into this tournament as a popular favorite, making her loss all the more shocking.

Beyond that, the the third day at Roland Garros went as planned. Let's take a look back at the day's most relevant results.

Serena Williams Loses

Serena Williams (5)	6	6(5)	3
Virginie Razzano	4	7(7)	6

Heading into Tuesday's match against France’s Virginie Razzano, Serena Williams was 46-0 in Grand Slam first rounds.

Make that 46-1.

Razzano pulled off the shocking upset which included an amazing final game that saw Williams finally fall on the eighth match point, easily the most tense and exciting tennis Roland Garros has seen thus far.

Serena appeared to have this match won in the second set, when she led 5-1 in the tiebreaker. And then everything changed.

At 5-2, Serena stopped playing on a Razzano volley she deemed out of play. The chair umpire disagreed, video replay showed the ball just barely nicking the line, making the call correct, and Razzano rallied to win the tiebreaker.

With that, the momentum in the match changed hands.

Between sets, Williams appeared to be crying courtside and promptly dropped five straight games before mounting a late resistance. But it was too late.

The Big Names (Mostly) Advance

Simone Bolelli	2	2	1
Rafael Nadal (2)	6	6	6

Tatsuma Ito	1	5	0
Andy Murray (4)	6	7	6

David Ferrer (6)	6	6	6
Lukas Lacko	3	4	1

Ashleigh Barty	1	2
Petra Kvitova (4)	6	6

Alexandra Cadantu	0	0
Maria Sharapova (2)	6	6

Eleni Daniilidou	0	1
Caroline Wozniacki (9)	6	6

Maria Kirilenko (16)	6	6
Victoria Larriere	1	2

Not surprisingly, the rest of the day's biggest names handled their business without much trouble on Tuesday. The fact that Maria Sharapova didn't drop a game in her first match should frighten opponents, as she is likely now the favorite on the women's side after Serena Williams' elimination.

On the men's side, there weren't any major challenges, though Tatsuma Ito did make Andy Murray earn the second set the hard way.

Alexandr Dolgopolov Falls, Jeremy Chardy Survives Crazy Final Set

Alexandr Dolgopolov (16)	7(7)	4	6(4)	6	3
Sergiy Stakhovsky	6(4)	6	7(7)	3	6

Jeremy Chardy	6	6	6(3)	3	11
Yen-Hsun Lu	4	1	7(7)	6	9

The highest-seeded player to fall not named Serena Williams was Alexandr Dolgopolov, who was upset by fellow Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky in a see-saw affair.

Meanwhile, Frenchman Jeremy Chardy recovered after blowing a two-set lead to win a crazy fifth set, 11-9. The match took over four hours to complete.

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