Tennis French Open Roland Garros Day Five: Lets face it Nick Bollettieri has a Jurassic glow. That deep Floridian tan, which gives his face the appearance of seasoned luggage, the wrap around shades, the awfully white teeth and these days you can't tell an ageing tennis coach from a Rolling Stones guitarist or Triceratops. Johnny Watterson reports from Roland Garros

Recently the former coach of Anna Kournikova, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier and a string of others has been sounding off about players cheating. He has come clean on the practice that everyone knows exists but few want to do anything about.

Those who look for the right forefinger rubbing the nose (attack back hand) or the scratch of the back of the head (attack forehand) and other signals from their coaches in the stands are breaking tennis rules. But many do it.

Bollettieri did when he was coaching. Shamelessly he has admitted to a series of commands his players understood and he lists other players who obviously do it, including Mary Pierce and Kournikova, and cites Roger Federer's recent complaint that Rafael Nadal's uncle, Toni, was coaching him during their final in the Italian Open, which Nadal won.

Tennis operates a sham when it comes to coaching.

"Anna Kournikova used to look for tips from her mother in matches so often she actually gave herself a neck ache," said the American in his column in the London Independent newspaper.

Scotland's Andy Murray doesn't have a coach since departing company with Mark Petchey but most do. Lleyton Hewitt has Roger Rasheed and Tim Henman employs Paul Annacone. Surprisingly, Hewitt and Henman, who both had varying fortunes yesterday, said they thought that Bollettieri's idea of having the coaches sit at the side of the court, where they could talk to players at the changeovers, was not a good idea.

The Australian won his match yesterday 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 over wild-card entry Mathieu Montcourt, while Henman departed the competition, losing in four sets to Dmitry Tursunov.

"I don't think it should be allowed," said the Australian, who is slowly climbing back from injury. "The great thing about our sport is once you're out there it's a matter of doing what you need to do against your opponent and working it out for yourself."

Henman, who was asked the same question, also dismissed the idea and echoed what Hewitt had said earlier.

"I don't think it should be allowed. I think it's one of the beauties of our sport that once you are on court, it is you against your opponent. But does it go on? Yeah, absolutely it goes on. But it doesn't bother me."

Unravelling Tim Henman has become a favourite pastime in Paris and perhaps a little coaching yesterday would have helped.

As his career drifts into the twilight, players these days don't necessarily need to be connoisseurs of the clay-court game to unravel the British number one, despite him becoming the first British player in 41 years to reach the semi-final here two years ago.

Otherwise the 71st-ranked player has been predictably disappointing and has never got past the third round.

What his critics might leap on in his fractured game against the higher ranked Tursonov, which began in bad light on Wednesday and was continued yesterday morning with Henman two sets down, is that he had 10 break points and nine in the fourth set alone. Overall, Henman earned 23 break points but took only three. That is seriously profligate.

Henman has never been anything other than philosophical about his chances on clay and at 31 and 11 consecutive appearances, he may be coming close to not coming back to Roland Garros.

No sign of mellowing, though as he expressed his anger about the quality of decision-making on Wednesday night.

"It was just a shambles," he said. "The decision-making was non-existent. I wanted to know what is good light, what is bad light, wanted it sort of quantified? He says, 'well we're playing on the other courts.' So, I said 'does that make the light acceptable'. It was just a bit of a circus really."

MEN'S SINGLES

Second round: (4) Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Oscar Hernandez (Spa) 6-3 6-7 (7-9) 6-1 6-2, (25) Gael Monfils (Fra) bt Dick Norman (Bel) 4-6 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-0 7-5, (23) Tommy Haas (Ger) bt Alexander Waske (Ger) 6-4 7-5 6-7 (6-8) 6-4, Novak Djokovic (Ser) bt (9) Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) 6-4 6-1 3-6 4-6 6-1, (14) Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Mathieu Montcourt (Fra) 7-5 6-3 6-3, (22) Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) bt Ivo Karlovic (Cro) 4-6 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 7-5 6-2, (29) Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) bt Florent Serra (Fra) 6-0 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (8-6), (7) Tommy Robredo (Spa) bt Ilia Bozoljac (Ser) 7-5 6-2 3-6 6-1, (31) Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) bt Tim Henman (Gbr) 6-3 6-2 4-6 6-4, Martin Vassalo Arguello (Ita) bt (21) Sebastien Grosjean (Fra) 1-6 6-4 4-6 7-5 6-2, Alberto Martin (Spa) bt Dieter Kindlmann (Ger) 6-3 6-3 6-3, (27) Olivier Rochus (Bel) bt Jiri Vanek (Cze) 6-2 6-0 6-2, Julien Benneteau (Fra) bt (19) Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) 3-6 6-4 6-3 6-7 (1-7) 6-4, (11) Radek Stepanek (Cze) bt Davide Sanguinetti (Ita) 6-3 6-3 6-1, Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (Spa) bt Christophe Rochus (Bel) 5-2 ret

WOMEN'S SINGLES

Second round: (31) Shahar Peer (Isr) bt Tzvetana Pironkova (Bul) 6-2 6-3, (15) Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) bt Emmanuelle Gagliardi (Swi) 3-6 6-2 6-3, (21) Nathalie Dechy (Fra) bt Catalina Castano (Col) 6-4 2-6 6-3, (5) Justine Henin-Hardenne (Bel) bt Anastasia Yakimova (Blr) 6-2 7-5, (19) Ana Ivanovic (Ser) bt Emilie Loit (Fra) 6-1 6-1, (10) Anastasia Myskina (Rus) bt Melinda Czink (Hun) 6-2 6-4, (20) Maria Kirilenko (Rus) bt Mathilde Johansson (Fra) 6-0 6-1, (32) Gisela Dulko (Arg) bt Yuliana Fedak (Ukr) 6-2 6-4, Shenay Perry (USA) bt Akiko Morigami (Jpn) 6-3 6-0