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Ready for more? Young Quebecers Félix Auger-Aliassime and Leylah Fernandez make their Roland Garros main-draw debuts, along with Steven Diez.
Women’s singles, first round
Canadian content
Leylah FERNANDEZ (CAN) def. [31] Magda LINETTE (POL) 16 62 63
Overtime
[11] Garbiñe MUGURUZA (ESP) def Tamara ZIDANSEK (SLO) 75 46 86
After midnight
[WC] Clara BUREL (FRA) def Arantxa RUS (NED) 67 (7) 76 (2) 63
Upsets
Shuai ZHANG (CHN) def [12] Madison KEYS (USA) 63 76 (2)
Iga SWIATEK (POL) def [15] Marketa VONDROUSOVA (CZE) 61 62
[Q] Kaja JUVAN (SLO) def. [18] Angelique KERBER (GER) 63 63
Anastasia PAVLYUCHENKOVA (RUS) def [28] Svetlana KUZNETSOVA (RUS) 61 26 61
Seeds advancing
[3] Elina SVITOLINA (UKR) def Varvara GRACHEVA (RUS) 76 (2) 64
[5] Kiki BERTENS (NED) def Katarina ZAVATSKA (UKR) 26 62 60
[6] Serena WILLIAMS (USA) def Kristie AHN (USA) 76 (2) 60
[7] Petra KVITOVA (CZE) def Océane DODIN (FRA) 63 75
[25] Amanda ANISIMOVA (USA) def Tamara KORPATSCH (GER) 62 60
Qualifiers shining
[Q] Sara ERRANI (ITA) def Monica PUIG (PUR) 62 61
[Q] Renata ZARAZUA (MEX) def [WC] Elsa JACQUEMOT (FRA) 61 62
Other results (in alphabetical order)
Alizé CORNET (FRA) def [WC] Chloé PAQUET (FRA) 63 62
Polona HERCOG (SLO) def. [WC] Diane PARRY (FRA) 64 62
Su-Wei HSIEH (TPE) def [Q] Barbara HAAS (AUT) 63 76 (1)
Christina MCHALE (USA) def Karolina MUCHOVA (CZE) 62 64
Jasmine PAOLINI (ITA) def Aliona BOLSOVA (ESP) 64 63
Bernarda PERA (USA) def [PR] Catherine BELLIS (USA) 76 (3) 61
[WC] Tsvetana PIRONKOVA (BUL) def Andrea PETKOVIC (GER) 63 63
Kristyna PLISKOVA (CZE) def Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK) 61 62
Katerina SINIAKOVA (CZE) def Lauren DAVIS (USA) 76 (5) 62
Patricia Maria TIG (ROU) def Stefanie VOEGELE (SUI) 75 75
Men’s singles, first round
Canadian Content
Yoshihito NISHIOKA (JPN) def [19] Felix AUGER-ALIASSIME (CAN) 75 63 63
Mackenzie MCDONALD (USA) def. [Q] Steven DIEZ (CAN) 46 63 63 64
Extra time
Tennys SANDGREN (USA) def. [29] Hubert HURKACZ (POL) 75 26 46 76 (1) 11-9
[Q] Lorenzo GIUSTINO (ITA) def. Corentin MOUTET (FRA) 06 76 (7) 76 (3) 26 18-16
Five-setters
[30] Jan-Lennard STRUFF (GER) def Frances TIAFOE (USA) 36 76 (5) 63 67 (2) 63
[LL] Daniel Elahi GALAN (COL) def Cameron NORRIE (GBR) 46 63 57 61 61
Lorenzo SONEGO (ITA) def [Q] Emilio GOMEZ (ECU) 67 (6) 63 61 67 (4) 63
Upsets
Marton FUCSOVICS (HUN) def. [4] Daniil MEDVEDEV (RUS) 64 76 (3) 26 61
Alexander BUBLIK (KAZ) def [8] Gael MONFILS (FRA) 64 75 36 63
Mikhail KUKUSHKIN (KAZ) def [14] Fabio FOGNINI (ITA) 75 36 76 (1) 60
[Q] Nikola MILOJEVIC (SRB) def. [26] Filip KRAJINOVIC (SRB) 64 36 63 61
Seeds advancing
[2] Rafael NADAL (ESP) def Egor GERASIMOV (BLR) 64 64 62
[3] Dominic THIEM (AUT) def Marin CILIC (CRO) 64 63 63
[15] Karen KHACHANOV (RUS) def Kamil MAJCHRZAK (POL) 76 (3) 63 63
[17] Pablo CARRENO BUSTA (ESP) defJohn MILLMAN (AUS) 63 62 75
[26] Casper RUUD (NOR) def Yuichi SUGITA (JPN) 61 63 61
Other results (in alphabetical order)
[Q] Daniel ALTMAIER (GER) def Feliciano LOPEZ (ESP) 76 (1) 64 64
Aljaz BEDENE (SLO) def [WC] Arthur RINDERKNECH (FRA) 62 67 (7) 64 64
[WC] Hugo GASTON (FRA) def [WC] Maxime JANVIER (FRA) 76 (5) 64 63
Pierre-Hugues HERBERT (FRA) def [Q] Michael MMOH (USA) 63 62 63
[Q] Pedro MARTINEZ (ESP) def [Q] Aleksandar VUKIC (AUS) 75 64 60
Tommy PAUL (USA) def James DUCKWORTH (AUS) 62 63 62
Guido PELLA (ARG) def Salvatore CARUSO (ITA) 76 (6) 67 (4) 75 64
Albert RAMOS-VINOLAS (ESP) def Adrian MANNARINO (FRA) 64 63 60
[Q] Jack SOCK (USA) def Reilly OPELKA (USA) 64 64 63
Jiri VESELY (CZE) def [Q] Liam BROADY (GBR) 62 57 63 62
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