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PARIS. — The French Open tennis tournament suffered its first complete washout since 2000 yesterday when all scheduled matches were cancelled due to heavy rain.

“Due to weather, there will be no matches played at today,” said the Roland Garros Twitter feed.

There could be more problems today with further rain forecast throughout the day before conditions brighten tomorrow.

Eight last-16 matches planned for yesterday plus two more which had already been held over from Sunday night will now be played today.

Three quarter-finals are also due to take place today — Andy Murray against Richard Gasquet and defending champion Stan Wawrinka in the men’s event while Shelby Rogers was to face Garbine Muguruza in the women’s singles.

Play had been set to get underway at 11am yesterday but was eventually called off just before 2pm).

“All cancelled for today — rain, rain go away,” tweeted Czech seventh seed Tomas Berdych who was due to face former runner-up David Ferrer of Spain for a last-eight spot.

This year’s Roland Garros was hit by rain delays on the opening Sunday when just 10 of the scheduled 32 opening round ties were completed in a little over four hours of play.

The second day was then hit by another two and a half hour delay. That in turn pushed 12 of the scheduled 66 matches back to the first Tuesday.

There was a two and a half hour stoppage on Saturday followed by another hour on Sunday which meant that the planned last-16 programme remained unfinished. — AFP.