Ninth seed Tim Henman reached the fourth round of the French Open for the first time today after he hammered Spain's Galo Blanco 7-6, 6-1, 6-2.
The Briton took one hour, 58 minutes to finally move into the last 16 on his ninth visit to Roland Garros.
After taking the first set 7-3 in the tiebreak, Henman left Blanco, a quarter-finalist in 1997, reeling as he captured five games in succession to seal second set.
The Spaniard gave his supporters a glimmer of hope when he broke Henman in the first game of the third. But Henman broke back immediately before repeating the feat twice more to record a convincing victory.
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Henman will play unseeded Frenchman Michael Llodra for a place in the quarter-finals.