Day 4 Results: No Upsets, Player Carried Out on Stretcher

So Day 4 of the French Open was going pretty straightforwardly, with Federer going on court at 11 and seemingly off by noon. Djokovic, by all appearances, didn't break sweat today. The same went for the women. Caroline Wozniacki had her customary close second set, but other than that, the two finalists from last year, Francesca Schiavone and Samantha Stosur both gave up a combined 4 games. Then Vera Zvonareva happened. As the third seed and the defending Wimbledon and U.S. Open Finalist, she has a lot of expectations going into this tournament. She was playing Sabine Lisicki, the 121st ranked German who, after many injuries, is attempting to make a career resurgence. Lisicki took the first set from Zvonareva 6-4, but the third seed was able to take the second in a grueling 7-5 set. Then it's when it started to get interesting. Lisicki was able to take a 5-2 lead in the third with Zvonareva serving. She even had a match point at 30-40, but Zvonareva was able to hold. It was all downhill from there for the German. She got broken at 30 and asked for the trainer. After the trainer looked at her, they called a doctor to attend to her as well. In a surreal sight, they took her blood pressure on the bench. After a while she continued to play. Zvonareva held easily, and watching it, is was painfully obvious that Lisicki was done. Her grunts weren't normal grunts, but almost pain shrieks. She got broken at 5-6 to end the match, and immediately afterwards the medical team came out and got a stretcher for her. The early word was that it was cramps, and hopefully it wasn't much more. The takeaway is that Zvonareva won, and so all of the top seeds advanced, but there was drama in the Bullring today on an otherwise routine day at the Stade Roland Garros.