Eventually even this diehard Kanepi fan went home. Photo used courtesy of FFT.

PARIS — Poor light has halted Kaia Kanepi in her tight second round battle on a rain affected day.5 at the French Open.

Scheduled to play first up against fourth seed Serb Jelena Janković, Kanepi was kept waiting in the wings for over five hours whilst they waited for heavy rain to dissipate and the subsequent mop up of courts to be completed.

When play did finally get underway, it was Janković who grabbed the early advantage, as Kanepi struggled to settle with a high unforced error rate.

It was surely the high unforced error rate that gave her opponent the first set 6-2. Six double faults also did not help matters.

But as the second set began to unravel, Kanepi’s game began to come back to her as the unforced errors were more regularly replaced with winners. Her sudden turn in form somewhat surprised Janković who struggled with the lift in tempo, falling 3-6 to send the match into a deciding third set.

Tied 1-1 in the final set the bad weather once again reared its ugly head and with bad light returning with rain looking imminent, the players were once again forced to the changing room with no signs of returning Thursday.

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