The next day at the Open championship of France gave a lot of loud sensations.
Only 42 minutes continued opening match of Serena Williams at Roland Garros – the current winner of the tournament easily defeated Magdalena Rybarikova and went to the Brazilian Teliana Pereira.
Angelique Kerber became the fifth current Australian Open champion who lost in the first round of the Paris major. The German sensationally stopped the recent champion of the Nuremberg Kiki, Bertens.
Another loud sensation was the departure of Victoria Azarenka, which many predicted quarter-final battle with Serena Williams. In the encounter with Karin Knapp fifth seeded health failed – Azarenka because of severe pain in the knee joint in the deciding set refused to continue the fight.
In addition to Kerber and Azarenka struggle at Roland Garros completed several seeded tennis players – Johanna konta, Daria Kasatkina and Monica Niculescu.
The results of matches of seeded players:
Serena Williams (USA, 1) – Magdalena Rybarikova (Slovakia) — 6:2, 6:0
Angelique Kerber (Germany, 3) – Kiki, Bertens (Netherlands) — 2:6, 6:3, 3:6
Karin Knapp (Italy) – Victoria Azarenka (Belarus, 5) — 6:3, 6:7 (6), 4:0, failure Azarenka
Francesca Schiavone (Italy) – Kristina Mladenovic (France, 26) — 2:6, 4:6
Ocean Dodin (France) – Ana Ivanovic (Serbia, 14) — 0:6, 7:5, 2:6
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Venus Williams (USA, 9) – Anette Contavam (Estonia) — 7:6 (5), 7:6 (4)
Andrea Petkovic (Germany / 28) – Laura Robson (Britain) — 6:2, 6:2
Monica Niculescu (Romania, 31) – Pauline Parmentier (France) — 2:6, 6:7 (2)
Tatjana Maria (Germany) – Jelena Jankovic (Serbia, 23) — 6:3, 3:6, 6:3
Silvia Soler-Espinosa (Spain) – Timaeus Alan (Switzerland, 8) — 3:6, 1:6
Carla Suarez-Navarro (Spain, 12) – Katerina Sinyakova (Czech Republic) — 6:2, 4:6, 6:2
Donna Vekic (Croatia) – Madison keys (USA, 15) — 3:6, 2:6
Saisai Zheng (China) – Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia, 22) — 3:6, 1:6
Johanna Konta (Britain, 20) – Julia Gerges (Germany) — 2:6, 2:6
Ekaterina Makarova (Russia, 27) – Barbara, Lepchenko (USA) — 5:7, 6:4, 6:3
Anna-Lena Friedsam (Germany) Darya Kasatkina (Russia, 29) — 1:6, 6:4, 3:6
Samantha Stosur (Australia, 21) – Misaki DOI (Japan) — 6:2, 4:6, 6:3
