Tennis: Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina are the only players to claim wins at the French Open so far today as constant rain continued to ruin day three at Roland Garros.
Fans have seen less than 90 minutes action, leaving the likes of men's champion Rafael Nadal and women's top seed Maria Sharapova kicking their heels.
Kuznetsova and Safina managed to dodge the showers to wrap up speedy victories on the outside courts and progress through to round two.
The start of the day was suspended for almost three hours because of light drizzle but the covers were taken off across Roland Garros' courts from around 1.45pm local time.
Both Russians had only just finished their matches when the covers came back on again at 3.15pm.
Fourth seed Kuznetsova had no trouble seeing off Japan's Aiko Nakamura 6-2 6-3 on Court One.
The 22-year-old, who will play either Vania King or Violette Huck next, is bidding to add another grand slam success to her US Open triumph in 2004.
She was the runner-up to Justine Henin at Roland Garros in 2006 and the Belgian, who retired from tennis a fortnight ago, believes Kuznetsova will succeed her as champion.
The Russian blushed when she was told that, saying: "I had a short chat with her when she was here — she said, 'Come on, maybe it can be your year'.
"That cheered me up so it's good. I thank her for that.
Kuznetsova added she was happy with her consistency against Nakamura and was delighted to get her match over and done with, with more rain forecast this week.
Safina was just as easy a winner as she cruised past Kateryna Bondarenko 6-1 6-3 on Court Three.
The number 13 seed won a tournament in Berlin just over a fortnight ago — beating Henin, Serena Williams and Elena Dementieva on her way to the title — but skipped last week's event in Rome with a back injury.
Elsewhere in the women's draw, home favourite Amelie Mauresmo, seeded 29, was ahead 7-5 2-2 against Ukraine's Olga Savchuk when the rain forced them off the Philippe Chatrier court.
Sharapova, the new world number one, was scheduled to be in action late today but her match has already been put back to tomorrow.
No match in the men's draw has been completed, with reigning three-time champion Nadal due to be on after the Mauresmo/Savchuk clash.
Of the matches that have started, fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko put himself well on course for a spot in the second round by taking a 6-3 6-3 lead over Sweden's Thomas Johansson, the Australian Open winner in 2002.
Ninth seed Stanislas Wawrinka, the 23-year-old from Switzerland, has also won the first two sets of his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber