So, the 2013 French Open is now under way. The match of the first day in the men's event has to be home hope Gilles Simon's five-set win over Australian former world no. 1 Lleyton Hewitt. The Frenchman led 5-0 in the final set, and withstood a fightback from the legendarily tenacious Hewitt to eventually triumph 3-6, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 - the first time in his career he's won from two sets down.
At the moment Simon is scheduled to be the top men's seed at this year's Aegon International, and he's just one of the images that have sprung up in Eastbourne in the last few days, advertising the event. The posters were up in time for yesterday's Eastbourne carnival, and include Agnieszka Radwanska, Fernando Verdasco, Heather Watson, Laura Robson and Caroline Wozniacki. The latter two, of course, are due to face off tomorrow in the first round in Paris.
For a full list of the men's and women's entrants for Eastbourne so far, go to the tournament's official website at: http://aegoninternational.co.uk, or my former stomping ground (well, I had features published there, at least!) of http://eastbournetennis.com, where I understand they exclusively revealed this year's likely entrants in early May.
