French Open 2016 Schedule: Replay TV Coverage, Livestream for Thursday's Draw

For tennis fans stateside, the French Open's insomnia-inducing hours often render live viewing of the event out of the question, especially during the work week.

It's an unfortunate state of affairs, especially on a day like Thursday, when the likes of Serena and Venus Williams, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga are all on the schedule. Luckily, there is a solution for those looking to avoid a nocturnal lifestyle but still catch the early rounds at Roland Garros.

Replay coverage of the action in Paris starts at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday and lasts until 5 a.m. ET on Friday on the Tennis Channel. 

For those willing to stay up late, or perhaps sneak in a match or two before work, a livestream for Day 5 can be found at the Tennis Channel website.

Spoiler Alert: Notable Early Results from Day 5

After an easy three-set win over Sam Groth in the first round, the fourth-seeded Nadal again looked the part of a clay-court master in his second-round contest against Argentina's Facundo Bagnis. The nine-time French Open winner needed only the minimum three sets to dispatch Bagnis on Thursday, 6-3, 6-0, 6-3.

The win was the Spaniard's 200th at a Grand Slam, and he joined an exclusive club of players, per the New York Times' Christopher Clarey: 

Nadal's serve isn't overpowering anyone on the slow clay—he has just one ace through two matches—but he's making few mistakes and dominating on the break. Nadal had just 18 unforced errors to Bagnis' 39, and the Spaniard also took care of eight of 10 break points and nine of 11 net points.

In other men's results, No. 7 Tomas Berdych wrapped up his second-round match early, beating out Malek Jaziri in four sets, while a dark-horse candidate in No. 13 Dominic Thiem cruised to a straight-sets win over Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

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Thiem, 22, came into the French Open with a robust 29-9 singles record in 2016. He scored titles at the Acapulco Open in February and at the Nice Open just before this tournament. Thiem also impressed with a win over Roger Federer at the Italian Open. He could make a real breakthrough in Paris, especially if he manages a win over Nadal in a potential fourth-round matchup.

In the women's bracket, the unseeded Kiki Bertens continued her surprise run with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Camila Giorgi. Bertens scored one of the upsets of the tournament so far when she defeated 2016 Australian Open winner Angelique Kerber in the first round.

No. 14 Ana Ivanovic made rather easy work of Kurumi Nara with a two-set victory, and No. 8 Timea Bacsinszky avoided the upset against Eugenie Bouchard with a 6-4, 6-4 win.

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Bouchard rose to fame with strong showings at Wimbledon and the Australian Open and French Open in 2014, but she crashed and burned in 2015.

The pressure from her struggles in 2015 led to difficulty eating and subsequent weight loss, per the New York Post's Justin Terranova:

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Starting 2015, I definitely felt a lot of pressure and expectations from the outside world and myself. I just felt so nervous, it was hard to eat before matches and sometimes at other meals, just hard to keep it down. I didn’t try to lose weight, but it definitely happened. It was definitely a cause of the stress. I’ve learned a lot from it, and I know I just have to force food down my throat even if I feel sick because I am burning so many calories.

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The 22-year-old Bouchard still has time to turn things around, of course, and she did well to reach the finals of the Malaysian Open and Hobart International early in 2016. She's been rocky since early March, and the second-round loss to Bacsinszky at Roland Garros isn't likely to offer much comfort. While Bouchard did well to battle back from a 5-0 hole in the second set, she tossed away the first one by allowing Bacsinszky to win five straight games after building up a 4-1 lead.

The women's draw hasn't seen much in the way of upsets since the likes of Kerber and Victoria Azarenka found themselves staring at early exits from the tournament. The men's side has been a mostly straightforward affair as well.

There may not be much in the way of underdogs after the first few days of the French Open, but the steady advancement of top seeds could lead to some tantalizing matchups down the line.

Match stats courtesy of RolandGarros.com unless otherwise noted.