There were a couple of results that I never got round to filling you in on earlier.

So fans of David Ferrer, you will be pleased to know that your man has scurried into the fourth round via a straight-sets win over Andreas Seppi.

The Spanish fifth seed will play Kevin Anderson next after he took the battle of the big servers thanks to Ivo Karlovic's retirement on Court Two.

Hold the Dom Perignon. Fabio Fognini has come out of his corner fighting at the start of the fourth, breaking Gael Monfils' serve at the first time of asking.

Andy Murray is up next after this one is done. He may have some time to wait yet.

Suzanne Lenglen is jumping. Not the lady herself, she popped her plimsolls back in 1938, but the court named after her.

Gael Monfils is finding angles from way off the protractor and a cowed Fabio Fognini has no answer. The Frenchman breaks to love to take the set and a 2-1 lead.

Maybe we were reading the last rites on Leonardo Mayer's challenge too early. The Argentine breaks back against Nadal and holds his own serve to nose ahead in the third.

The old one-two. That is a lesser-spotted piece of racquet abuse as Fabio Fognini dashes his bat to the floor and then backheels it towards the back boards on the half-volley.

The Italian has let two break points slip away and is chuntering away to some of the home fans as their man closes out the game with a whopper of an ace out wide.

Umpire Pascal Maria has a job on his hand keeping decorum in this one.

Leonardo Mayer might be at the start of the end. The Argentine surrenders serve in the opening game of the third set as he chops a forehand into the top of the net.

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The noise generated on Suzanne Lenglen has been echoing around the other courts at Roland Garros. Gael Monfils is at the epicentre of it.

The Frenchman has just seen off break point in the third set and celebrates by slapping his fist against his chest and nodding knowingly to his box.

Fabio Fognini is getting treatment on some finger blisters as the players change ends. Has he got the stomach to puncture this increasingly buoyant atmosphere?

The big lassooing forehand finish. If Gareth Bale is trademarking that heart-hand celebration thing,, external then Rafael Nadal should get down the patent office to claim his signature shot for his own.

It is the one that seals the second set, streaking away as he holds to love.

Leonardo Mayer is walloping any ball that has the nerve to pop up above net height. Real whack-a-mole tennis.

It is giving Rafael Nadal plenty to think about, but the eight-time champion has a super-computer for the tennis brain. After scraping through a service game to 30, he produces a brilliant scooped half-volley lob which lands just inside the baseline to clinch a break.

He will serve for the set next.

Talking of Monfils-Fognini, we are still all square and on serve in the third set. Plenty of nip and tuck, dodge and dive left in there.

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Over on Court One, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez has just sealed the first set against American Donald Young. Garcia-Lopez beat Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round and has plenty of clay court experience this year.

This is his eighth clay-court tournament of the year. He won in Casablanca last month and reached the quarters in Monte Carlo.

Either Gael Monfils or Fabio Fognini in the next round for the winner of this one.

Rafael Nadal did have cruise control engaged, feet up on the dashboard, flipping peanuts into his mouth on Philippe Chatrier.

His shot-making was exposing acres of red clay either side of Leonardo Mayer.

But the Spaniard has hit a couple of speed bumps though in his last two service games.

After Nadal ignoring a time violation call from umpire Pascal Maria to see off a break point, Mayer has broken serve in the next, charging to the net behind a decent forehand.

The Argentine has tidied up the errors that were littering his game in the early stages.

The French crowd might be best not to rile Fabio Fognini. They might not like him when he is angry.

When a section of British fans chanted that they were 'in his head' during his Davis Cup rubber against Andy Murray in Naples earlier this year, he responded with a gesture that questioned their other halves' fidelity before roaring to victory.

Russell Fuller
BBC tennis correspondent on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

"Fognini played the conclusion of that second set as if he was having a knock up with his (imaginary) children. He's hit a staggering number of unforced errors, but both are playing very quickly, and you can't take your eyes off it for a moment.

"The crowd are getting in on the act, too, and took their opportunity to jeer the Italian when he made a half hearted attempt to break his racquet towards the end of the second set."

Monfils clinches the second set with a break of serve and there is a gale in Gael's sails as the crowd roar their approval.

As well as that humdinging, see-sawing riddle of a win for Svetlana Kuznetsova in the women's draw, there was an upset in the opening match on Court Suzanne Lenglen where 2008 champion Ana Ivanovic was beaten by Lucie Safarova 6-3 6-3.

Fellow Serb Jelana Jankovic has completed a 6-1 6-2 win over Sorana Cirstea.

Piers Newbery
BBC Sport at Roland Garros

"After living every moment of the earlier 3hr 13min epic between Kuznetsova and Kvitova, the Chatrier crowd is taking a more detached view as Nadal winds up his game another notch against Mayer in front of them. With 61 wins and just one defeat behind him at Roland Garros it's hard not to take Nadal for granted here, but this is another step in one of the remarkable records in sport."

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It is more competitive over on Court Suzanne Lenglen where Gael Monfils is whipping up some patriotic fervour in the stands, breaking Fabio Fognini for a lead in the second.

Rafael Nadal is in such business-like mood, he almost turned up for this one in a suit rather than shorts.

The Spaniard snaps Leonardo Mayer's second service game of the second set over his knee. Nadal is currently winning more than half of Mayer's service points.

Rafael Nadal is not wasting time on Philippe Chatrier. After Petra Kvitova-Svetlana Kuznetsova's 3 hours 13 minute marathon, he has rattled though his opening set against Leonardo Mayer in half an hour flat.