Fifth seed Pete Sampras was knocked out of the French
Open in the second round 7-6 6-3 6-2 by Spain's GaloBlanco today, leaving his Grand Slam collectionincomplete for another year.
Sampras, who arrived at Roland Garros desperatelyseeking a French crown to add to his record 13 GrandSlam titles, once again could not come to grips withthe slow Parisian clay and failed to put togetherback-to-back wins at Roland Garros for the fourthsuccessive year.
Top seed Martina Hingis dropped only her second gameof the tournament as she crushed Catalina Castano 6-16-0 today to move into the third round.
She was joined by sixth seed Serena Williams, who eased through with a confident 6-0 7-5 victory over Slovenian qualifier Katarina Srebotnik.
The pair were joined in the last 32 by last year'srunner-up and eighth seed Conchita Martinez, theexperienced Spaniard overcoming Slovakia's DanielaHantuchova 7-6 6-4.
In early men's action, 10th seed Sebastien Grosjean ofFrance eased through to the third round by crushingNorway's Jan Frode Andersen 6-2 6-2 6-2.
Number 16 seed Franco Squillari of Argentina also won,overcoming a slow start to beat Swede AndreasVinciguerra 2-6 6-3 6-3 6-1.