Tsonga reaches Marseille quarters

The quarterfinals has been reached by the French crowd favorite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, with a come-from-behind second-round victory Wednesday at the $785,000 Open 13 tennis event.

The first set against Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky has been dropped by Tsonga before charging back for a 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 decision on the indoor surface at Palais des Sports.

The first round concluded here on Wednesday, as fifth-seeded Croat Ivan Ljubicic leveled Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev 6-2, 6-4 and German Philipp Petzschner ousted seventh-seeded Latvian Ernests Gulbis 7-6 (7-2), 6-1.

Additional first-round action saw Edouard Roger-Vasselin top fellow Frenchman Arnaud Clement 6-3, 6-2 and French favorite Gilles Simon stop fellow former top-10 star Nikolay Davydenko of Russia 7-6 (8-6), 6-4. Simon captured this event in 2007, while the veteran Clement was the 2006 winner.

Soderling beats Cilic in Open 13 final

Marin Cilic of Croatia has been beaten by Soderling in the final of the Open 13 to earn his ninth career title.

17 out of 18 matches has been won by top-seeded Swede,grabbing titles in Rotterdam last weekend and in Brisbane last month.

The French Open finalist saved four set points in the tiebreaker of the first set, but Cilic converted the fifth when a backhand return from Soderling sailed wide.

Soderling hit a forehand pass down the line to take a 4-3 lead in the next set. He leveled at one set apiece when Cilic hit an approach shot wide.

French Open to stay at Roland Garros

Jean Gachassin,President of the French Tennis Federation has confirmed that the French Open will continue to be played on the outskirts of Paris at the iconic Roland Garros site.

To host tennis’ prestigious event three groups had made bids on different parts of the French capital.Gonesse is the first place and second place Versailles,the both eliminated while most of the votes goes to Roland Garros over Marne-la- Vallee.

World class players such as Spaniard Rafael Nadal did not favour of the change of location.

“Roland Garros should remain here, because here we can breathe the history of tennis within these walls. It’s very important, whereas if we move elsewhere, maybe the site is going to be bigger, we’re going to lose part of our soul,” the five time French Open winner had said.

Nadal expects quick recovery

From the leg injury the world number Rafael Nadal expects to have recovered in 10 days.The injury scuppered his attempts to win his fourth grand slam title in a row at the Australian Open.

Nadal had dreamt of holding all four Grand Slam titles at the same time after winning the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open in 2010.He was urged to sit back and see Novak Djokovic (7/1 to win French Open) claim the Australian Open title.

Tests on the injured leg showed Nadal (13/8 Wimbledon Outright) ruptured the adductor longus muscle in his right thigh in Melbourne, but he should not be out of action for too long.

A statement on his personal website said: "Doctors estimate a recovery period of about 10 days from today."