Andy Murray battles past Juan Martin Del Potro

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But you then have another 15 to 20 seconds to either calm yourself down and think about the next one, or spend that time thinking about what just happened - "why did I just get broken serving for the set?"

Murray will face another big server in the fourth round, with the match between Karen Khachanov and John Isner of the United States suspended for rain with the Russian leading by a set.

The other British citizen in the French Open is Kyle Edmund. Cornet won 6-2, 6-1. "She obviously loves the clay. Your focus is maybe a little bit higher".

'I think we practice like three or four times, ' he said after his 7-6 6-3 6-7 7-6 win against Isner. She just keeps her head down.

Murray, the runner-up to Novak Djokovic in 2016, will face either John Isner of the United States or Russia's Karen Khachanov for a place in the quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, former champion Stan Wawrinka is through to the fourth round with a 7-6 (2) 6-0 6-2 win against Italian Fabio Fognini.

"Yeah, I expected a very tough match", Murray said after raising his record against the Argentine to 7-3. "I started playing much quicker".

Carina Witthoeft turned up late for her third round match against second-seeded Karolina Pliskova at the French Open.

Opening the breaker with his first double fault, Murray was down 3-4 when he pulled two successful serve-and-volley plays for 5-4. But Wawrinka saved all three, including an athletic volley at the net on the third one, to hold for a 4-2 lead.

Rain reportedly forced five third-round singles matches set for Saturday to be delayed, which means the fourth-round roster is not yet set.

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The 11th-seeded Wozniacki is a two-time runner-up at majors.

It was also a day of precipitation that left matches cancelled or unfinished.

In what was deemed to be a blockbuster of a match, Great Britain's Andy Murray has stormed home to beat Argentina's Juan Martin Del Potro in straight sets at the Roland Garros.

Murray got past the 29th-seeded del Potro 7-6 (8), 7-5, 6-0 on Saturday at Court Philippe Chatrier in a match that lasted almost 3 hours.

Murray won in Dubai in February, but has been struggling for any level of consistency, his best being a semi-final defeat to Dominic Thiem in Barcelona amid some discomfiting defeats early on.

This time Murray would make no mistake and crunched it out with his fourth ace of the match.

Losing that set on a disputed line call cut the 28-year-old del Potro deep.

Rafael Nadal recorded his most one-sided victory ever at Roland Garros, beating Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-0 6-1 6-0, while defending women's champion Garbine Muguruza set up a fourth-round meeting with French hope Kristina Mladenovic. The third-seeded Romanian romped through the first set in 30 minutes before Kasatkina sparked into life. Another prospectively enjoyable contest will see Marin Cilic take on Feliciano Lopez, first up on Suzanne Lenglen court. This is one of the most important tournaments of the year.

"This year he's had a lot of tough draws".

Halep showed no signs of the ankle injury that threatened to rule her out of the tournament.

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