PARIS (AP) — The Newest on the French Open (all occasions native):

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4:30 p.m.

Venus Williams has been knocked out within the first spherical of the French Open for the third straight yr, shedding 6-4, 6-Four to Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.

The 40-year-old American is 0-Three in Grand Slams this yr following first-round exits on the Australian Open and the U.S. Open.

For the reason that begin of 2018, the seven-time Grand Slam champion has misplaced within the first spherical in seven of the previous 11 main tournaments.

There have been solely a handful of spectators watching their match in chilly circumstances on Court docket Simone Mathieu.

Williams, who misplaced the 2002 last to her youthful sister Serena, was deep in hassle at 4-1 down within the second set. She fought again properly earlier than Schmiedlova clinched the match on serve, on her third match level, with a forehand winner down the road.

The Slovakian subsequent faces 10th-seeded Victoria Azarenka, the U.S. Open runner-up.

3:30 p.m.

Sebastian Korda, a qualifier whose father, Petr, gained the 1998 Australian Open and was the runner-up on the 1992 French Open, has the primary main-draw Grand Slam match win of his profession.

The 20-year-old Korda beat Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Korda now faces one other American, 21st-seeded John Isner.

Isner superior by beating Elliot Benchetrit 6-4, 6-1, 6-3.

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2 p.m.

David Goffin has develop into the primary seeded participant to be knocked out of the French Open.

The 11th-seeded Belgian misplaced 7-5, 6-0, 6-Three to 19-year-old Italian Jannik Sinner, who beat Goffin for the second time this yr after profitable on onerous courts at Rotterdam in February.

Sinner showcased his expertise as one of many world’s greatest younger gamers by profitable the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals final yr. He subsequent faces French qualifier Benjamin Bonzi or Finland’s Emil Ruusuvuori.

Within the ladies’s draw, tenth-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus beat Danka Kovinic 6-1, 6-2 in chilly circumstances.

The U.S. Open runner-up performs both Venus Williams or Anna Karolina Schmiedlova within the second spherical.

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11:30 a.m.

Lower than an hour into the French Open, chilly and damp circumstances on the main that has been postponed from its normally extra nice spot in Could and June are inflicting grumbling and a mood outbreak from Victoria Azarenka.

The No. 10 seeded Azarenka fumed when match officers did not instantly ship her and first-round opponent Danka Kovinic again to the locker-room throughout a rain interruption Sunday on the Suzanne Lenglen courtroom.

Azarenka was main 2-1 within the first set when a match supervisor requested them to attend on their courtside seats for a couple of minutes to see if the falling rain would go.

Azarenka boiled over.

”I’m going to get frozen,” she complained. ”No. I am not ready right here a few minutes as a result of I am chilly. It is eight levels, eight levels, I stay in Florida, I’m used to scorching climate.”

Wrapped up in a puffy pink coat, Azarenka requested Kovinic if she needed to attend on courtroom. The 74th-ranked participant from Montenegro agreed that she didn’t.

”It is ridiculous. It is too chilly,” Azarenka grumbled, earlier than strolling off courtroom. ”What is the level? Sitting right here like geese.”

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11 a.m.

Postponed and its crowds practically all pushed away, the French Open is lastly underway, defying each the coronavirus and autumn rain with play for the primary time beneath the brand new roof on the revamped Philippe Chatrier showpiece courtroom.

A crowd, if it might be referred to as that, of round 150 spectators was available to see David Goffin, seeded 11th, and Jannik Sinner from Italy hit the primary balls in major draw play Sunday beneath the Chatrier roof meaning the French Open joins the opposite majors as having the ability to assure play in inclement climate.

It would want it: The forecast is grim for the approaching days of its COVID-19-enforced autumn slot, pushed again from Could and June.

With only one,000 spectators allowed per day, the cool climate and gamers present process batteries of exams, the fortnight guarantees to be distinctive, a far cry from the same old pageant of Grand Slam tennis on the clay courts on the western fringe of Paris.

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