Fish loses; US without singles player in Paris

PARIS (AP) — Mardy Fish summed up the mindset of American tennis players at the French Open after his loss Saturday left the United States without a man or woman in the clay-court Grand Slam tournament's fourth round.

"It's never too early," the 10th-seeded Fish said, "to think about grass for us."

Only once before in the Open era, which began in 1968, had zero men or women from the U.S. reached the round of 16 at a Grand Slam tournament — and that was at the 1973 Australian Open, when no Americans entered.

Fish, a 29-year-old from Tampa, Fla., was beaten 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 by 18th-seeded Gilles Simon of France. Earlier in the day, the last U.S. woman playing singles at …