Newz Forum: OTHER: Saturday's womens French Open round up

Venus Williams swept aside France's Mary Pierce to ease through to the fourth round of the French Open on Saturday afternoon. Venus, the number four seed, took just 76 minutes to complete a routine 6-3 6-1 victory and now plays Colombia's Fabiola Zuluaga.



Serena Williams was greeted with jeers and whistles but then eased into the fourth round of the French Open with a 6-0 6-4 victory over Croatia's Silvija Talaja. The Wimbledon champion needed a convincing performance following her three-set scare against 17-year-old Russian Maria Kirilenko in the second round but it was never that, even against an opponent in Talaja who appeared totally overwhelmed by her first meeting with arguably the best women's player on the planet.



Former champion Jennifer Capriati survived a scare before battling past Russian Elena Bovina in three sets to reach the last 16. The seventh-seeded American began in superb fashion but was pegged back by Bovina and Capriati, the 2001 champion, needed all her experience and skill to finally triumph 6-2 3-6 6-4.



Anastasia Myskina made light work of Denisa Chladkova in Paris on Saturday. The Russian sixth seed was always the boss against Chladkova, who gave her all but was never really at the races. Myskina took the first set 6-3, put was pushed in the next as her Czech opponent begann to find her rhythm. The seconrd went to a tie-break, but Myskina kept her cool to close out 6-3 7-6 (7/3).