Junior Charlotte Robillard-Millette the last Canadian standing at Roland Garros

PARIS – The Canadian day in Paris began well enough, as Charlotte Robillard-Millette put a thumping on a French wild card in the second round of the junior girls’ singles.

The 16-year-old from Blainville, Que. defeated Tessah Andrianjafitrimo 6-0, 6-2, jumping out to a 6-0, 4-0 lead before surrendering her own serve twice as she neared the finish line.

Here's how it looked.

The rest of the day? Not so good.

Robillard-Millette, with an 11 a.m. start, got through her match before the winds truly kicked up at Roland Garros – the type of gusty wind that pelts your eyeballs with red dust and has you picking it out of your lashes. It also blows most of the clay off the actual courts, which makes moving a challenge.

By the time Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil and American partner Jack Sock took to Court 1, it was in full force.

And the Can-American team, which had struggled in its first three matches but managed to get through without both members playing well at the same time, had a poor day at the office.

Pospisil and Sock, seeded No. 2, were beaten 6-3, 6-3 by the No. 5 team of Horia Tecau and Jean-Julien Rojer, an experienced team that took the court - and just took it to them.

There was little of the younger tandem’s trademark exuberant on-court demeanour. It looked like hard work, and in the end it was.

Only players who have gone four sets on clay with the great Rafael Nadal, as Sock did on Monday, can vouch for how beaten up they might feel the next day. But Sock’s bright light was dimmed considerably for this quarter-final match.

Robillard-Millette and American doubles partner Michaela Gordon had a tough loss in the second round of the girls’ doubles later in the day, going down 6-1, 2-6, 10-8 in the match tiebreak to a team, Xu Shilin and Jil Teichmann, who have mostly been playing the pro circuit the last year or two.

So it’s all about the singles now for Robillard-Millette, who was fighting a cough and some congestion, during and after the match (one of many cold and flu victims this year in Paris, most notably Maria Sharapova).

Her next test is a solid one.

She will face Spaniard Paula Badosa Gibert, and that’s a completely different level of competition.

Badosa Gibert, who is still 17, is seeded No. 12 in the girls’ event but hasn’t played the juniors since the U.S. Open junior event last summer. She’s tall, and attractive, and the type of player the agents and clothing companies tend to show up to watch.

The ITF takes WTA Tour rankings into consideration in seeding the junior singles event - but not nearly as seriously as they should; Badosa Gibert is currently ranked No. 270 on the pro tour, and has beaten some very solid players in her few professional forays so far in 2015.

A year ago in the French Open juniors, she was beaten by Robillard-Millette’s national training centre teammate Françoise Abanda in the junior quarter-finals, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3.

As for Pospisil and Sock, a quarter-final effort isn’t bad, given all the strikes they had against them – especially Pospisil’s bad ankle.

He told Eh Game that in the previous two matches, the ankle had felt as good as it had since the injury, and he’s looking forward to a full slate of grass-court tournaments.

The pre-Wimbledon season is a week longer this year, with the main event pushed back a week. And Pospisil plans to play every week – s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands next week, Halle, Germany the week after (most likely the qualifying) and Nottingham the week before Wimbledon.

Daniel Nestor and doubles partner Leander Paes, who have had trouble winning a lot of matches during their partnership so far, are also signed on to play each of the three pre-Wimbledon weeks.