Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan overcame a second-set challenge from Oliver Marach and Fabrice Martin to win 6-3, 7-6(1) in the second round of Roland Garros on Friday. The fifth seeds dropped serve to trail 4-2 in the second set, but broke back the following game before sweeping the last seven points of the tie-break. Last year’s finalists are looking for their third Roland Garros title.

Second seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau also raced to an early lead but were unable to close out their second-round match, losing 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to 2008 champion Pablo Cuevas and 2014 finalist Marcel Granollers. Cuevas/Granollers fired nine aces and broke serve four times to advance.

Defending champions Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo eased into the third round with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Frenchmen Tristan Lamasine and Albano Olivetti. Dodig/Melo did not face a break point in the 75-minute encounter.

Three-time champion Leander Paes teamed up with Marcin Matkowski to see off Julian Knowle and Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-3. The 42 year old is looking to win Roland Garros for the fourth time (1999, 2001 & 2009).

The most one-sided win of the day belonged to Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez. They dismissed Argentines Federico Delbonis and Andres Molteni 6-1, 6-2 in just 62 minutes. 

Defending Roland Garros champion Stan Wawrinka is finding his best form as he bids for another title in Paris. The No. 3 seed convincingly moved past No. 30 seed Jeremy Chardy in their third-round match on Friday, 6-4, 6-3, 7-5.

With the win, Wawrinka increased his winning streak on clay to seven matches. He prevailed in last week’s ATP World Tour event in Geneva.

“Everything that I did today was pretty high-level,” said Wawrinka. “I hit the ball well. I was moving around well. I managed to do what I wanted.”

Wawrinka dropped serve to start the match, but it was one of the few lapses in form he had all afternoon. The Swiss star immediately broke back in the next game and clinched the set with another break of serve at 5-4.

In the second set, the defending champion took his game to another level. Hitting 14 winners to seven errors, he earned an early break of serve to lead 3-1 and eventually fired an ace on set point to take a commanding two-sets lead.

Wawrinka once again grabbed an early break to lead 3-1 in the third set. It appeared the match would be wrapped up with Wawrinka serving at 5-4, but the Frenchman brought the crowd to their feet with inspired returning to level the match. The No. 3 seed responded by breaking Chardy in the next game and comfortably serving out the match on his second try.

Wawrinka will next play No. 22 seed Viktor Troicki of Serbia, who enjoyed a convincing win over No. 16 seed Gilles Simon of France, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. Wawrinka leads his FedEx ATP Head2Head with Troicki 4-0.

“The last time I played him on clay was a three-hour match in Belgrade [in 2010],” said Wawrinka. “He’s a player who plays well. He plays his own [style] of tennis.” 

No. 9 seed Richard Gasquet delighted the home crowd by winning his third-round match on Friday, advancing past No. 17 seed Nick Kyrgios, 6-2, 7-6(7), 6-2.

After falling behind 0/40 in the opening game of the match, Gasquet went on a tear by winning 13 of the next 15 points. Kyrgios struggled to find his footing in the first set, hitting eight winners to 14 errors. The Australian dropped serve down 2-5 to give the opening set to his opponent.

In the second-set tie-break, Kyrgios produced an error on set point at 6/5. Gasquet narrowly missed a backhand passing shot on his first set point at 7/6, but made good two points later and took a commanding two-set lead.

Gasquet grabbed an early break to start the third set, hitting a forehand winner to take a 2-1 lead. Continuing to frustrate the Australian with his variety, he earned another break to lead 5-2 and wrapped up the match on serve in the next game.

The Frenchman moves into the second week at Roland Garros for the fourth time. He’ll look to reach his first quarter-final in Paris when he next plays No. 5 seed Kei Nishikori. Gasquet leads their FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry 6-2, but Nishikori has won their past two meetings this year on the clay of ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events in Madrid and Rome. 

Rafael Nadal, a nine-time Roland Garros champion, has withdrawn from the tournament due to a left wrist injury. He was slated to meet countryman Marcel Granollers in the third round.

“I have to retire from the tournament because of problem in my wrist that I have had for a couple of weeks,” Nadal said during a press conference on Friday. “Yesterday I played with an injection in my wrist. Last night I started to feel more and more pain. I did an MRI and an echography and the results were not positive. It’s not broken, but if I keep playing, something will break in the next couple of days. Every day the image has gotten a bit worse.

“I came here to win the tournament, and that means playing five more matches. According to the doctor, that would be impossible, as there is a 100 per cent chance something will break,” Nadal added. “I know that I cannot finish the tournament. It’s part of life and I hope to be back at Roland Garros for many years to come.”

Nadal conceded a walkover for just the third time in his career. He withdrew ahead of the 2004 Estoril quarter-finals and the 2012 Miami semi-finals. According to the Spaniard, he will not need immediate surgery.

“For the moment, I need a couple of weeks of immobilisation. Then we’re going to do the treatment, and we’ll hope that the treatment works well. But now is not the moment to talk about that. It’s just about taking it day by day, to work hard.

“I hope to have a fast recovery.”

After battling through his first two rounds in five sets, Andy Murray enjoyed a much more straightforward victory in the third round at Roland Garros on Friday, defeating Ivo Karlovic 6-1, 6-4, 7-6(3).

The Scot was two points from defeat as he rallied from a two-set deficit against Radek Stepanek in the first round and overcame an inspired performance by French wild card Mathias Bourgue to prevail in five sets on Wednesday.

Murray has enjoyed great success against 6’11’’ Karlovic in the past and Friday was no different as he toppled the Croatian in one hour and 56 minutes to improve to a 7-0 lead in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.

The Scot surged through the first two sets, taking advantage of the 37-year-old Karlovic having been extended to 12-10 in a fifth set in his second-round win over Jordan Thompson. Murray was thwarted on two break points in the fifth game of the third set, but went on to dominate the ensuing tie-break, sealing victory on his first match point as Karlovic returned serve wide.

“Especially at the end, it was very close in the third set,” said Murray in his on-court interview. “I got off to a quick start [in the match] and against someone like Ivo, that’s important. He fought right to the end and made it very tough. I’m obviously glad to win the tie-break and get off after a fairly quick match.

“The return has normally been the strongest part of my game, but even still, against him, it’s not always up to you. When he serves well, there’s not much you can do. I just try to stay patient and take care of my own service games.”

The 29-year-old Murray came into Roland Garros in red hot form, winning his third ATP World Tour clay-court title by defeating Novak Djokovic in the Rome final. The Dunblane native has been a semi-finalist at Roland Garros in three of the past five years, losing out to Djokovic in a five-set thriller last year.

As he continues his quest for a third Grand Slam title, adding to victories at the 2012 US Open and 2013 Wimbledon, Murray goes on to face John Isner for a place in the quarter-finals.

Eighth seed Milos Raonic continued his flawless progress at Roland Garros as he advanced to the fourth round with a 7-6(4), 6-2, 6-3 victory over lucky loser Andrej Martin on Friday.

The Canadian is yet to drop a set in Paris to reach the fourth round for the second time after wins against Janko Tipsarevic and Adrian Mannarino. In his first tour-level meeting with the No. 133-ranked Martin, Raonic twice squandered a break advantage in the first set, missing five set point opportunities, before clinching the opener in the tie-break on his eighth set point chance.

Two breaks of serve in the second set gave Raonic a two-set lead and, after letting slip an early break advantage in the third set, the Toronto native reeled off the final four games of the match from 2-3 down to prevail.

The 25-year-old Raonic reached his first Grand Slam quarter-final at Roland Garros two years ago, falling to Novak Djokovic. The right-hander has a 27-6 match record in 2016, highlighted by winning his eighth ATP World Tour title in Brisbane (d. Federer), finishing runner-up in Indian Wells (l. to Djokovic) and reaching the semi-finals at the Australian Open (l. to Murray).

Next up for Raonic will be either No. 23 seed Jack Sock or Albert Ramos-Vinolas.