Update
Who is on, who’s out? All news from day 1 at the Grand Slam tournament in Paris Current and compact.
Outside the large, covered arenas, the French Open is not currently being played. The reason: it rains binding threads.
Victory and out after a long fight
Laura Siegemund – Anna Bondar 6: 7 (2: 7); 3: 6
Laura Siegemund also fought for every ball against Anna Bondar as ever. But in the end, after almost 2.5 hours, the 37-year-old, who went behind her German colleague Tatjana Maria (in August 38) the second oldest player at the French Open is a little the strength. Against the Hungarian (27), Siegemund had tried to give her opponent at all with her unusually varied game from stop, praise, forehand slice or backhand topspin. But at some point Bondar found her way against the Filderstadt residents, who had suffered from a leg injury before the tournament. Departures from Paris do not have to win. In the women’s doubles she competes with the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, in mixed she is even a defending champion with the Frenchman Édouard Roger-Vasselin. There is on Bois de Boulogne So do a lot for you.
Sabalenka knows no mercy
Aryna Sabalenka – Kamilla Rachimova 6: 1; 6: 0
The viewer on the Court Philippe-Chatrier examine. Aryna Sabalenka swept away like a hurricane with her crashing strokes over Kamilla Rachimova. The Belarus and her Russian opponent joked on the net with her handshake. Because for 23-year-old Rachimova it was an exact one-hour, free lessons. For the great tournament favorite Sabalenka, however, it was a slight start to the start – on the way to the title?