Jo-Wilfried Tsonga gets on the board in the third set. But that isn't fooling anyone. He trudges to his chair like a prisoner shuffling around the exercise yard and the atmosphere was extinct about 40 minutes ago.

Just occasionally you get little flashes of what Jo Wilfried Tsonga is capable of. He hooks a superb down-the-line winner off his laces, past Novak Djokovic and in to save the first of two break points at 15-40.

He is being given plenty of chances to try those sort of death-or-glory winners though, because Djokovic is stretching him wide so often and so early in the rallies.

A more makeable forehand flies long off his racquet in the next point though and Djokovic is a double break to the good.

The usual swift hold follows.

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Novak Djokovic has bundled this match into the back of a getaway car and is almost away and over the border. He breaks Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first game of the third set and the Frenchman continues to look so strangely subdued.

Another hold follows for the world number two. It is difficult to keep up. We are an hour and 10 minutes into what has turned into a heist.

Novak Djokovic knows how to break up a party. The Philipp Chatrier crowd continue a Mexican wave long after he is ready to serve for the set and then boisterously shout their support for Tsonga.

Djokovic rings up the cold light of reality in revenge, peppering the Frenchman with power and depth into both corners. Tsonga isn't as mobile, isn't as agile and isn't in the second set any longer. A hold to love.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga looks like he might just be waking from his slumber after sleep-walking through the first set and a bit. His pulverising forehand starts walloping and Novak Djokovic can't keep it out of range as he is broken for the first time in the match.

Tsonga follows it up with a hold, but he will need another break to drastically change the script.

I was in France the day after London was picked ahead of Paris as the host of the 2012 Olympics.

It looks like a similar atmosphere on Philppe Chatrier as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is broken again to bring a seemingly inevitable demise in the second set closer.

Less joie de vivre more just peeved.

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Piers Newbery
BBC Sport at Roland Garros

"It is positively parky on Court Suzanne Lenglen as Maria Sharapova and Sam Stosur get under way, with some ominous clouds around. The Aussie, watched by coach Miles MacLagan, still has a hefty bandage on her left calf after an accident in the gym. She'll need to be 100% to turn around a pretty ropey record against Sharapova."

Stosur is down 13-2 in her previous meetings with Sharapova.

I think if you look very closely Ros, you will see that if those are Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's Wimbledon whites than he has washed them with a pair of red undies.

A very pale shade of pink rather than pristine white from my angle.

Ryan Dorrian:, external Would it kill the players to at least acknowledge the ball boys/girls?!

Ros Clarke:, external I do think that tennis players in proper whites should get bonus points. Tsonga looks very smart.

Jo Wilfried Tsonga is winning only 58% of his first serve points, compared to Novak Djokovic's far healthier 70%. He has just enough about him to hold at his next attempt though, putting away a forehand volley in the game's final shot.

It has all gone very, very quiet over there.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga surrenders his serve to love with a double fault and the great and the good of Paris, who have filled the stands in hope of a 2012-style five-set ding-donger, just about manage to muster a smatter of applause as the players head for a sit-down.

They could be onto Garbine Muguruza against Pauline Parmentier before they know it.

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Amin Elhassan:, external Dustin Brown's dreadlocks do it for me.

A sight of Milos Raonic's lacquered locks, brings to mind an earlier shout out for tennis's top hairstyles in honour of the French Open's on-site hairdresser.

You can send your suggestions to #bbctennis, external on Twitter or to 81111 on text.

Dan R:, external Effortless and easy tennis from Djokovic here.

Peter Riley:, external Djokovic v Tsonga in the 2012 French Open was an absolute epic. Hope we are treated to another similarly thrilling five-setter today.

It looks very likely to be Novak Djokovic at this rate.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga threw a slight spanner in the works by working up a 0-30 scoreline in the final game, but his rebellion is soon quashed by the world number two.

Twenty-six minutes in all for the first set.

Ruthless from Milos Raonic who finishes off Marcel Granollers 6-3 6-3 6-3. He can get his feet up and watch the Djokovic-Tsonga match to see who his next opponent will be now.

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is on the board, but he is several miles per hour short of his usual service speed.

Novak Djokovic picks off one of his tee-offs with a crushing forehand winner, and unless the Frenchman can smuggle it through with more pace or guile, he is going to be in trouble. If he isn't already.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is in the midst of a storm. Novak Djokovic is ploughing powerful groundstrokes at him, subjecting his suspect backhand to a full interrogation.

Tsonga tries to hunker down as best he can, depending on his serve and rotweiller of a forehand, but Djokovic has him on the move and unable to get away anything attacking.

Another break of serve chiselled off Tsonga and, with 18 minutes on the clock, Djokovic is a game away from the opening set.

Novak Djokovic has taken the early initiative to suck some of the fight out of the local crowd, forcing a break in Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's opening service game.

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The two have history. They were both in their first Grand Slam final when Novak Djokovic beat Tsonga in the 2008 Australian Open final.

They crossed swords again in the 2012 French Open quarter-final and Jo-Wilfried had four match points but failed to convert any as the Serb prevailed again.