PARIS (AP) — The Latest from the French Open (all times local):
11:40 p.m.
Daniil Medvedev is now 0-4 for his career at the French Open.
The runner-up at the U.S. Open last year and a semifinalist in New York this month failed yet again to win a match at Roland Garros.
The fourth-seeded Russian lost to 63rd-ranked Marton Fucsovics 6-4, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-1.
Medvedev was in a bad mood throughout, getting warned for an expletive, then being docked a point for smashing his racket in the second-set tiebreaker.
That point came at 6-3 in the tiebreaker, so he lost that set.
Fucsovics had been 0-14 against Top 10 opponents.
11:15 p.m.
Tennys Sandgren has won an 11-9 fifth set to become the seventh American man to reach the second round at this year’s French Open — the most in nearly a quarter-century.
Sandgren had been 0-3 at Roland Garros for his career until saving two match points and coming back to edge No. 29 seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland 7-5, 2-6, 4-6, 7-6 (1), 11-9 over 4 1/2 hours in a match that ended a little past 11 p.m.
This is the first year that matches can be played that late in Paris because artificial lights have been installed on the courts.
Sandgren was a point from losing when he served at 15-40 while trailing 8-7 in the fifth. But he erased one match point with an ace, and the other disappeared when Hurkacz missed a running forehand.
Sandgren then needed four match points of his own to close things. At this year’s Australian Open, he held seven match points against Roger Federer in the quarterfinals but couldn’t convert any.
Nine U.S. men got to the second round at the French Open in 1996.
Last year, only one did.
9:15 p.m.
A women’s doubles player has been removed from the main draw after she was declared a contact case following her coach’s positive coronavirus test.
French Open organizers did not name the player. Doubles matches start on Wednesday.
The French Tennis Federation has carried out around 1,900 coronavirus tests since Sept. 17.
There were six virus-caused withdrawals from the qualifying rounds.
Three players tested positive for COVID-19 and three others were in close contact with their coach who tested positive.
9 p.m.
Three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber has lost in the first round of the French Open for the second straight year.
The 18th-seeded German was beaten by 19-year-old Slovenian Kaja Juvan 6-3, 6-3.
Kerber once held the No. 1 ranking and has won every major title except the French Open. Her best performance at Roland Garros was the quarterfinals in 2012 and ’18.
Two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova also went out. The 2009 French Open champion was beaten by Russian countrywoman Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-1.
Garbine Muguruza could have joined Kerber and Kuznetsova.
But the 2016 French Open champion held firm to beat Tamara Zidansek 7-5, 4-6, 8-6.
8:10 p.m.
Qualifier Lorenzo Giustino took 6 hours, 5 minutes to beat Frenchman Corentin Moutet in the second-longest match in French Open history.
The Italian won 0-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3), 2-6, 18-16 in a match carried over from Sunday evening. The final set alone lasted three hours.
Only Fabrice Santoro’s win against fellow Frenchman Arnaud Clement in 2004 took longer at 6:33.
The French Open is the only one of the four major tournaments which does not use tiebreakers in the final sets to decide men’s and women’s matches.
Giustino next plays 12th-seeded Diego Schwartzman.
Defending champion Rafael Nadal reached the second round of the French Open after beating Egor Gerasimov 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.
Nadal is looking for a record-extending 13th title at Roland Garros and a 20th major overall to equal Roger Federer’s men’s record.
Nadal did not face a break point in the first two sets but trailed 15-40 at the start of the third. He saved one but was broken when he hit wide down the line.
Gerasimov had a medical timeout for several minutes at 2-2. He received treatment on his right foot after an awkward fall. The foot was heavily strapped and his movement appeared limited afterward.
Nadal served for the match and won on his first match point when Gerasimov patted a shot into the net.
The second-seeded Nadal next faces American Mackenzie McDonald.
5:10 p.m.
Serena Williams advanced to the second round of the French Open by beating Kristie Ahn 7-6 (2), 6-0.
The sixth-seeded Williams served for the match at 40-0 but Ahn saved three match points. An ace gave her a fourth opportunity to win but she hit a shot into the net.
Williams then saved a break point before finally beating her American opponent with an ace.
Ahn held leads of 3-1 and 4-2 in the first set.
The 39-year-old Williams is a three-time French Open champion and is looking to equal Margaret Court’s record of 24 major titles. She will next face Bulgarian wild-card entry Tsvetana Pironkova.
4:45 p.m.
Fourteenth-seeded Fabio Fognini and 19th-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime both lost in the first round of the French Open.
Fognini lost to Mikhail Kukushkin 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-0 and Auger-Aliassime was beaten by Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5, 6-3, 6-3.
It was the 20-year-old Auger-Aliassime’s first main-draw appearance at Roland Garros.
Fognini reached the French Open quarterfinals in 2011 for his best performance at a major tournament. This was his earliest exit at Roland Garros since a first-round loss in 2016.
3:05 p.m.
U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem advanced to the second round of the French Open by beating former U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
The third-seeded Austrian won his first major tournament at Flushing Meadows two weeks ago and is among the favorites again at Roland Garros after losing the past two finals to Rafael Nadal.
Thiem broke the imposing Croatian’s serve six times in cool conditions on Court Philippe Chatrier.
Cilic led 2-0 in the third set but Thiem reeled off the next five games before Cilic held again.
Thiem will next face American qualifier Jack Sock. He beat Reilly Opelka 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.
12:45 p.m.
Petra Kvitova reached to the second round of the French Open after a 6-3, 7-5 win over Oceane Dodin under the new roof on Court Philippe Chatrier.
The two-time Wimbledon champion advanced from the first round for the 10th time in 11 appearances at Roland Garros. The Czech player’s only first-round loss was in 2010. She was a semifinalist in 2012. She is ranked 11th and seeded seventh at Roland Garros.
A forehand hit wide by 118th-ranked Dodin gave Kvitova a break of serve in the second set. The 23-year-old Frenchwoman was playing the 30-year-old Kvitova for the first time.
11:30 a.m.
The new roof over Court Philippe Chatrier is again proving its worth on Day 2 of the French Open.
The court is hosting the only play as rain thwarted the start of all other matches at Roland Garros. Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and 118th-ranked Oceane Dodin were dry for their first-round match with Chatrier’s retractable roof deployed from the outset.
No other matches started as scheduled on 12 other courts with rain falling and forecasters predicting dryer weather for the afternoon. Waterproof covers were deployed on all those courts to keep them from getting soaked.
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