What a parallel of delights in Paris on the 10th

evening of this enthralling French Open. As if

served to order, Novak Djokovic survived his

seventh five-setter in a row and saved four

match points to beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and

book a second Roland Garros semi-final

against Roger Federer, who, simultaneously,

was coming from two sets down to beat the

Argentinian Juan Martín del Potro. And finally

it was our very own superstar Aisam ul Haq

Qureshi who along with Jean-Julien Rojer

ousted  M. Llodra/N. Zimonjic 6-4, 2-1 (ret.)

to set up a meeting with the No.2 seed Bryan

brothers.

                  Much was being expected from the day-9 of the French Open because of the big matches on card for the day and it equally didn't disappoint the tennis fans.

                 The World No.2 King of Clay Rafael Nadal was set to face the clay-court specialist Juan Monaco of Argentina on Court Suzanne Lenglen late in the day. The match was highly hyped about and it was being said that it was Rafa's first real test in the Open so far. In the beginning of the match, Juan Monaco displayed some great tennis but it was overshadowed by Rafa's destructive form. Nadal overwhelmed Monaco in the first set 6-2.In the next two sets , it was a totally one-sided affair as Rafa then won 12 straight games  thrashing  Monaco 6-2 6-0 6-0 in 1 hour and 44 minutes. Nadal has not yet dropped a set in the entire red clay court season and has just lost 19 games in the tournament by far (which is a record for Nadal as well at the Roland Garros).

Team manager Naveed Akram Cheema bans the Pakistani star all rounder from speaking to the media in Pakistan's on-going tour of Sri Lanka.