While Andy Murray squeezed into the last 16 by finishing off Philipp Kohlschreiber, the 32-year-old Swiss suffered his earliest loss at the French Open in 10 years on Sunday, beaten 6-7, 7-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 by the Latvian Ernests Gulbis.
Pankaj Advani, who became the first Indian player to reach the quarter-final of a ranking event at February's Welsh Open, fell at the first qualifying hurdle on Sunday, beaten 10-8 by two-time Crucible semi-finalist Joe Swail.
And Wigan lost in the other game on Friday, beaten 30-20 at Wakefield Trinity.
BBC1's Six O'Clock News attracted the second-biggest audience of any programme on any channel on Saturday, beaten only by Casualty - with 8 million viewers and a 33% share.
Magnificent seven: Britain's big hopes for gold in Barcelona Mo Farah: 10,000m (Tuesday)and 5,000m (Saturday) Beaten to the 5,000m gold by a whisker in Gothenburg four years ago, Farah starts the clear favourite for the 10,000m on the opening night.
Resurgent Wednesday, beaten 1-0 by Hull in the play-off final, were in touching distance of the top tier and are determined to secure promotion this time around.
The French Open runner-up Stosur was seeded sixth at the All England Club, but she exited meekly Tuesday, beaten, 6-4, 6-4 by 80th-ranked Kaia Kanepi, a qualifier.
The defeat of seventh seed Karolina Pliskova on Monday, beaten 6-3, 7-6(1) by Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands, means that for the first time since Wimbledon introduced seedings in 1927, none of the top eight are in the quarter-finals.
And the 6pm bulletin had the second-biggest share for a show on any channel on Saturday - beaten only by BBC1's Breakfast, which featured first reports of Saddam's demise, and drew a 43% share.
Dr. Hudson has ordered two fresh eggs a day beaten into warm milk with a spoonful of rum and says he may recover with the warm days but he may not.
Savannah Marshall, a boxer of few words and many punches, could not find enough of the latter to reach the Olympic middleweight semi-finals on Wednesday, beaten for the fifth time in six attempts by her Dutch nemesis, Nouchka Fontijn.
