HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-French Open day two
Stan Wawrinka, who last made it past the third round of a Grand Slam en route to the 2017 final in Paris, defeated Slovakia's Jozef Kovalik 6-1 6-7(3) 6-2 6-3 in his tournament opener. READ MORE
Nadal back to his old merciless self Yannick Hanfmann v Rafa Nadal - match stats
Teenager Parry triggers Mauresmo comparison Fragile Wozniacki another top casualty in Paris
Black and white's all right for stylish Barty Kvitova withdraws, hopeful for Wimbledon
Federer enjoying 'outsider' tag on return French Open order of play on Monday
Withdrawal a painful lesson for Auger-Aliassime Tsitsipas's love for clay goes a long way back
Federer turns on style on Roland Garros return No surprise as Kerber shown exit in first round
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Novak Djokovic's quest to become the first man in the Open era to twice hold all four major crowns simultaneously began with a superb 6-4 6-2 6-2 win over Pole Hubert Hurkacz. 1503 SEAFOOD SACRIFICE BEHIND LAAKSONEN PROGRESS
Swiss lucky loser Henri Laaksonen, who has spent the last year battling a mysterious allergy triggered by seafood https://www.atptour.com/en/news/laaksonen-federer-allergy-roland-garros-2019-feature, moved into the second round with a 6-1 6-0 7-6(4) victory over qualifier Pedro Martinez. The world number 104, who has given up eating his favourite salmon dishes to prevent bouts of pain all over his body, takes on world number one Novak Djokovic in the second round.
1337 NADAL TOO GOOD FOR HANFMANN Holder Rafael Nadal saved four break points in a scrappy opening game against Yannick Hanfmann, before blasting past the German 6-2 6-1 6-3 in a winning start to his hunt for a 12th title at Roland Garros.
1307 HERBERT COMPLETES EPIC COMEBACK France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert rallied from two sets down to stun 12th seed Daniil Medvedev 4-6 4-6 6-3 6-2 7-5 in three hours and 54 minutes.
1301 TEENAGER PARRY PLAYS IT COOL France's Diane Parry, aged 16 years and 281 days, said that keeping a cool head helped her become the youngest player to win a main draw match at Roland Garros since 2009 and the youngest from her country since Alize Cornet in 2005.
"I tried to approach (it) as a run-of-the-mill match so as not to have too much pressure on my shoulders," Parry, who idolises Roger Federer, said after beating Vera Lapko 6-2 6-4. "I tried to roll out my usual game ... I tried not to think about the fact that it was a big match in the French Open. I tried to be as cool and relaxed as possible."
1231 KRAJINOVIC OUTLASTS TIAFOE Filip Krajinovic switched gears in the final set to overcome Frances Tiafoe, the lone seeded American man in the draw, in a marathon five-setter. The Serbian won 6-2 4-6 6-3 3-6 6-0 in nearly three hours.
1210 BARTY MAKES SHORT WORK OF PEGULA Ashleigh Barty, seeded eighth, converted six out of seven break points against American Jessica Pegula to ease into the second round with a 6-3 6-3 victory.
1114 WOZNIACKI STUNNED BY KUDERMETOVA Caroline Wozniacki handed Veronika Kudermetova a bagel in the opening set, but was comprehensively beaten 0-6 6-3 6-3 by the unseeded Russian as the tournament lost another big name following Venus Williams' and Angelique Kerber's opening day exits.
1048 BERTENS EASES THROUGH Fourth seed Kiki Bertens hardly broke sweat in a 6-3 6-4 victory over local hope Pauline Parmentier. She meets Viktoria Kuzmova in the next round.
1045 LONDERO DUMPS OUT BASILASHVILI Nikoloz Basilashvili, the 15th seed, was beaten 6-4 6-1 6-3 by Argentina's Juan Ignacio Londero.
1042 FIFTH-TIME LUCKY FOR BRITON KONTA Johanna Konta snapped a run of four opening round defeats at Roland Garros with a 6-4 6-4 win over Germany's Antonia Lottner.
0900 PLAY BEGINS AT ROLAND GARROS Play got underway under cloudy skies at 11 a.m. local time in Paris with the temperature at the 16 degrees Celsius mark and a forecast high of 19C.
0900 KVITOVA WITHDRAWS WITH ARM INJURY Sixth-seed Petra Kvitova withdrew from the French Open due to an injury to her forearm, hours before her first match at the tournament against Romania's Sorana Cirstea on Monday. (Reporting by Simon Jennings and Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru Editing by Amlan Chakraborty, Pritha Sarkar, David Holmes and Catherine Evans)
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