Whereas many gamers needed to play the ready sport due to rain, a few of the prime stars of tennis began the Paris Olympics with wins on Saturday.
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Poland’s Iga Swiatek, the highest seeds in males’s and girls’s singles, respectively, each superior to the second spherical.
Djokovic crushed Australia’s Matthew Ebden 6-0, 6-1, whereas Swiatek topped Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu 6-2, 7-5.
Djokovic may face Rafael Nadal in what could be a much-anticipated second-round match if the Spain star beats Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics on Sunday.
Solely the most important two courts are lined at Roland Garros, stopping many matches from getting began.
Different first-round winners included girls’s No. 4 seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy and males’s No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain and No. 7 Taylor Fritz of the US.
Germany’s Angelique Kerber additionally ousted Japan’s Naomi Osaka in a star-studded opening-round match.
Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime, Bianca Andreescu and Leylah Fernandez all didn’t play on Saturday as a result of climate.
In males’s doubles, Spain’s star duo of Alcaraz and Nadal received their opening-round match over Argentina’s Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni.
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