Victor Hanescu had yet to drop a set at Roland Garros, but his opponent, Fernando Gonzalez had yet to drop a set either.

Someone had to give, and that someone was Hanescu.

Here’s a telling stat. Hanescu had 16 winners to 8 unforced errors. A pretty tidy match for Hanescu.

In a straight set blowout, however, Gonzo had 50 winners to 16 unforced errors. To put this in perspective, another Fernando, Fernando Verdasco of Spain, hit under 100 winners in a 5 set thriller against Nadal at the US Open. 95 winners to 76 unforced errors, to be precise. If you double Gonzo’s winners and errors, you’d get 100 errors to 32 unforced errors.

By the end, Hanescu looked like he had been beaten down, unable to run down shots, or find anything that would hurt the confident Chilean.

Final score: 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.

In a match that looked like it would be a big challenge for Andy Murray, Murray came through in a tight match against Croat, Marin Cilic. The first set was pretty much both players dominating on serve. After each serve, the server would dominate the rally, and then win the game. This went on until 5-all when Murray engineered a break.

Cilic essentially took a Gonzalez strategy. He went for bigger shots, but then made a truckload of errors. He hit 41 winners, but 40 unforced errors, many of these big shots off either forehand or backhand that went wide or long with startling frequency. Murray, meanwhile, moved the ball around well, but was stingy with errors. He had 14 unforced errors and 24 winners.

Murray did have a break lead in the second set, but Cilic broke back, and the second set eventually went into a tiebreak which Murray won easily.

Cilic’s play started getting more shaky, and Murray broke Cilic several times, to win the third set easily, 6-1.

There’s been no live coverage of a potentially big upset brewing. Last year, Nadal did not drop a set. No one expected him to drop two sets. Soderling took the first set with a shocking score of 6-2. He was down a break in the second, but managed to break, and the second set went to a tiebreak, which Nadal won. Soderling showed mental toughness and again broke for a 6-4 third set. In the fourth set, Nadal was up an early break, but Soderling broke back to even the set score.

Will this be the biggest upset ever? Nadal’s the toughest guy mentally on tour and has never been challenged like this on his favorite surface.