PARIS — Take comfort amid the fatigue, Andy Murray. The French Open can still be won after playing back-to-back five-setters in the first two rounds.
Gaston Gaudio, an unpredictable and unseeded Argentine, did it as recently as 2004.
But it is certainly not the recommended method of winning the French Open. Considering how much clay-court tennis Murray has already played this spring in Europe, his early-round tussles at Roland Garros could make the homestretch even more of an endurance test. Unless, of course, the week of intermittent rain in the forecast gives him and everyone else extra time to recover (or washes all the red clay away).