Day Two of the French Open features an all-star line-up with Emma Raducanu making her senior debut on clay as she faces Czech qualifier Linda Noskova on Court Simonne Mathieu in Paris. The 19-year-old is seeded 12th and follows British men’s No. 1 Cameron Norrie who takes on French wildcard Manuel Guinard in his opening match. Raducanu and Norrie are among five Brits in action at Roland Garros, with Dan Evans, Heather Watson and Harriet Dart also starting their campaigns today.
Spain’s 13-time men’s French Open champion Rafael Nadal starts his campaign against unseeded Australian Jordan Thompson on the main Court Philippe Chatrier before defending men’s singles champions Novak Djokovic takes on Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka in the opening round.
Also on the main court are the WTA world No. 1 Iga Swiatek who is in great form and will look to recover the French Open crown she first won in 2020. Women’s defending champion Barbora Krejcikova and - number two seed - follows that opening match and kicks off her campaign against France’s unseeded Diane Parry.
Rafael Nadal is into the third and final set on the Philippe Chatrier court. Jordan Thompson has taken the odd game here and there but hasn’t managed to out in a decent challenge against the 21x Grand Slam winner.
Guinard asked a few questions of Norrie in that game, even chucking in a couple of underhand serves, but Britain’s number one came through with flying colours and is now one game away from winning the match.
Manuel Guinard’s found a second win in the fifth game of the third set. He’s worked his way through deuce and has a chance to hold serve. Norrie drops one short and Guinard dinks it back down the line. Norrie has to back track but whips a two-handed cross shot past the Frenchman is bring it back to deuce.
The first one and a half sets were a physically tough and mentally bruising battle between these two players but Norrie came out on top and is now enjoying the spoils.
A tired looking Manuel Guinard serves up a double fault to give Norrie his third game in the third set. Things are looking great for the Frenchman who seems to be hitting the wall.
Cameron Norrie is stepping up his game again, he wins the first game of the third set against the serve and is pouncing on the tired shots from Guinard.
Nadal has broken Thompson twice in the second set on the Philippe Chatrier court. He is seemingly cruising to a first round win but there’s still a fair bit of tennis to play yet.
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