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Rain ends play in Paris

Paris - Second-round action was called off for the day at the French Open because of rain showers on Wednesday.

Local favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was level at 6-2, 4-6, 1-1 with German Cedric Marcel Stebe when the umpire stopped play and Court Suzanne Lenglen was covered.

Organisers said play would not resume.

Play was finished for the day on Court Philippe Chatrier.

Results from the fourth day of the 2012 French Open at Roland Garros on Wednesday (x denotes seeded player):

Men

Second round

Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Blaz Kavcic (SLO) 6-0, 6-4, 6-4
Nicolas Devilder (FRA) bt Michael Berrer (GER) 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 6-2
Andreas Seppi (ITA x22) bt Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2
Fernando Verdasco (ESP x14) bt Gilles Muller (LUX) 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
Gilles Simon (FRA x11) bt Brian Baker (USA) 6-4, 6-1, 6-7 (4/7), 1-6, 6-0
Stanislas Wawrinka (SWI x18) bt Pablo Andjar (ESP) 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (4/7), 6-2, 6-1
Roger Federer (SWI x3) bt Adrian Ungur (ROM) 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3
Nicolas Mahut (FRA) bt Martin Klizan (SVK) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3
Lukasz Kubot (POL) bt Florent Serra (FRA) 7-6 (7/0), 6-2, 7-6 (7/4)
Juan Martn Del Potro (ARG x9) bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/3), 6-4, 6-4
Marin Cilic (CRO x21) bt Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, 6-3
Kevin Anderson (RSA x31) bt Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0
Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) bt Michael Llodra (FRA) 6-2, 6-3, 6-3

Women

Second round

Victoria Azarenka (BLR x1) bt Dinah Pfizenmaier (GER) 6-1, 6-1
Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) bt Zheng Jie (CHN x31) 6-2, 6-4
Mara Jos Martnez (ESP) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE x20) 6-4, 7-5
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x15) bt Vania King (USA) 6-0, 6-2
Sloane Stephens (USA) bt Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 6-1, 6-1
Mathilde Johansson (FRA) bt Petra Cetkovsk (CZE x24) 7-6 (7/1), 6-2
Nadia Petrova (RUS x27) bt Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 6-3, 6-3
Samantha Stosur (AUS x6) bt Irina Falconi (USA) 6-1, 6-4
Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x3) bt Venus Williams (USA) 6-2, 6-3
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x26) bt Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) 6-4, 7-6 (7/4)
Sara Errani (ITA x21) bt Melanie Oudin (USA) 6-2, 6-3
Ana Ivanovic (SRB x13) bt Shahar Peer (ISR) 6-2, 6-2
Flavia Pennetta (ITA x18) bt Alexa Glatch (USA) 6-3, 6-1
Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP x29) bt Irena Pavlovic (FRA) 6-3, 6-2
Petra Martic (CRO) bt Marion Bartoli (FRA x8) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3

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