PARIS — Carlos Alcaraz opened his French Open title protection Monday with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 win over Giulio Zeppieri, an Italian qualifier who’s ranked 310th.
Alcaraz received all 14 of his service video games, saving the three break factors he confronted, at Courtroom Suzanne-Lenglen.
“It was actually, actually stable,” Alcaraz stated. “Actually proud about my begin.”
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Elsewhere within the males’s bracket, fourth-seeded American Taylor Fritz crashed out of the event Monday after a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 loss to Daniel Altmaier of Germany.
Altmaier broke Fritz’s large serve 5 instances at Courtroom Simonne-Mathieu and ended the Californian’s 15-match Grand Slam successful streak towards gamers ranked exterior the highest 50.
Alcaraz is seeded No. 2 behind Jannik Sinner however coming off a clay-court title on the Italian Open a bit of greater than every week in the past. Alcaraz beat Sinner within the ultimate there.
Sinner received in straight units Monday, defeating Arthur Rinderknech 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 to stretch his Grand Slam successful streak to fifteen matches.
Monday’s outcome gave Alcaraz 28 wins in his previous 30 matches on pink clay, together with going 7-for-7 a yr in the past at Roland-Garros. One of many losses got here towards Novak Djokovic within the gold medal match eventually yr’s Paris Olympics, held on the similar website because the French Open.
Additionally Monday, two-time runner-up Casper Ruud started his bid to succeed in one other Roland-Garros ultimate with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 first-round victory over Spanish qualifier Albert Ramos-Vinolas.
Former runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas made mild work of Tomas Martin Etcheverry, defeating the Argentine 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.
Briton Jacob Fearnley eased previous three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka, beating the 40-year-old Swiss 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-2.
Richard Gasquet, in his ultimate French Open look, dispatched fellow Frenchman Terence Atmane 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 6-0.
The Related Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
