PARIS -- Umbrellas in hand, bodies swaddled in windbreakers, the fans filing into the main gates of Roland Garros this morning were treated to a tennis highlight show. The video board in the main pavilion showed a compendium of shotmaking from recent days. Nadal with a running forehand up the line, punctuated with a signature fist pump. Federer serving and attacking the net, taking a ball off his shoelaces and guiding it into a corner for a volley winner. Djokovic returning a second serve and pummeling the ball, sending it whistling past the server. On it went.
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