Gasquet 'shocked' after exit

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The 11th seed failed to find any kind of rhythm in their second-round clash and was brushed aside 7-6 6-3 6-1 by his Belgian opponent to end the host nation's best hope of success here.

"I'm still shocked," admitted Gasquet. "I wanted to do so well, and I put too much pressure on myself. I wasn't relaxed at all and it was tough out there."

Vliegen, ranked 74th in the world, will now face 19th-seed Guillermo Canas after the Argentinian's straight-sets victory over Italy's Simone Bolelli.

Marat Safin was left questioning his future after his French Open campaign was also ended at the second-round stage with a comprehensive 6-4 6-4 7-5 defeat at the hands of Janko Tipsarevic on Suzanne Lenglen court.

"Life goes on," said the despondent Russian, the 2000 US Open and 2005 Australian Open champion. "But I shouldn't have really lost that match, as it's only the second round. I feel at the moment it isn't coming together.

"I'm 27 and my career's already going downhill. I'm not really keen on playing if I go to around 50 in the world. That doesn't motivate me to play good tennis and travel round the world.

"I make one semi somewhere in a small tournament and that's it. It doesn't give me motivation to continue. If it doesn't really click and I make radical changes and nothing comes up, then I will see. Maybe I won't want to play any more next year."

Fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko swept into the third round with a straight-sets victory over Austrian Werner Eschauer.

The Russian world number four, a dark horse for the title, narrowly won the first set 7-5, but outpowered his opponent in the remaining sets 6-3 6-1 and will next face Frenchman Michael Llodra, who defeated number-32 seed Nicolas Almagro in five sets.