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NOVAK DJOKOVIC comfortably beat Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in his French Open first open match.
The Serbian superstar went through with a straight-set victory.
While fourteen-time winner Rafael Nadal crashed out along with British stars Andy Murray and Dan Evans
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27th May 2024, 09:31By Ellie Grant
Brit out
Jack Draper was the first British player to depart this year’s French Open after his worst-ever major result by ranking.
The British No.2 dropped the F-bombs as he was eliminated 7-5 6-4 6-7 3-6 6-3 in more than four hours by unknown Dutch debutant Jesper de Jong, who has no previous form or history at this level of the sport.
Draper, 23, had to withdraw suddenly from this tournament 12 months ago due to an arm injury sustained after just one set of tennis.
Though there were no signs of physical setbacks, the Sutton southpaw did not fare much better on this occasion out on Court 12, gifting his opponent a shocking NINE double faults.
Had he progressed as he was favourite to do so, then he would have likely booked a second-round date with reigning Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz.
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27th May 2024, 08:49By James Orr
More on Nadal's future
French Open tournament chief Amelie Mauresmo says the bunting and montage videos will be kept in storage for now.
The 2006 Wimbledon champion said: “We had something planned for him.
“But he told us that because he doesn’t know if it’s going to be his last Roland Garros, he wants to leave the door open for him maybe to come back next year as a player.
“So we’re not going to push him obviously to do anything.
“It’s his decision when he wants to have a proper ceremony or proper goodbye and proper farewell.
“So we’re not going to do it this year. That’s his wish.
“Even though we’re ready to push the button and something happens, we are obviously going to respect what he wants.
“And make sure we’re ready whenever he feels he wants to do it. Later this year, next year, anytime he wants. We’ll see what happens.”
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27th May 2024, 07:39By James Orr
Nadal in action
The King of Clay, 14-time French Open winner Rafael Nadal is in action at Rolland Garros today.
Nadal is third up against No.4 seed Alex Zverev.
But this year may not be the 37-year-old's last at his favourite event.
French Open bosses have canned a special farewell tribute to Rafa Nadal because he has told them he might be back next year as a player.
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27th May 2024, 07:00By Jon Boon
French Open prize money
Both the Men's and Women's singles winners will take home the same amount.
Here's how much is up for grabs:
- Winner: £2m
- Runner-up: £1m
- Semi-final: £557k
- Quarter-final: £356k
- Round 4: £214k
- Round 3: £135k
- Round 2: £94k
- Round 1: £62k
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27th May 2024, 05:00By Jon Boon
Monday's order of play
COURT PHILIPPE CHATRIER - FROM 11:00
- Sachia Vickery v Ons Jabeur (8)
- Iga Swiatek (1) v Leolia Jeanjean
- Alexander Zverev (4) Rafael Nadal
From 19:15
- Gael Monfils v Thiago Seyboth Wild
COURT SUZANNE LENGLEN - FROM 10:00
- Chris Eubanks v Jannik Sinner (2)
- Marton Fucsovics v Stefanos Tsitsipas (9)
- Coco Gauff (3) v Julia Avdeeva
- Elina Svitolina (15) v Karolina Pliskova
COURT SIMONNE MATHIEU - FROM 10:00
- Rebeka Masarova v Marketa Vondrousova (5)
- Matteo Arnaldi v Arthur Fils (29)
- Maria Sakkari (6) v Varvara Gracheva
- Dominik Koepfer v Daniil Medvedev
COURT 14 - FROM 10:00
- Ben Shelton (15) v Hugo Gaston
- Anna Kalinskaya (23) v Clara Burel
- Lucca Van Assche v Denis Shapovalov
- Fiona Ferro v Diane Parry
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27th May 2024, 03:00By Jon Boon
Djokovic embarrassment
Novak Djokovic has revealed his embarrassment at his low expectation in winning the French Open this year.
Low expectations and high hopes," Djokovic's said when asked how he felt before Roland-Garros this year.
"It's tough to talk about. It's very subjective. I almost feel a bit embarrassed to say what my expectations are.
"Anything but a title for me is not satisfactory, it's always been like that. I know it might sound arrogant to a lot of people, but I think I have the career that backs it up.
"It's various things that were happening in the last couple of months, but I don't want to get into it. I hope you understand that. It's just I don't want to open Pandora's Box and talk about things."
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27th May 2024, 01:00By Jon Boon
Full report
Read Rob Maul's full report from Paris on Andy Murray's crushing defeat.
STAN'S THE MAN Murray is beaten in straight sets by old foe in his final French Open matchCopied
26th May 2024, 22:58By Jon Boon
Murray's reaction to defeat
I’m disappointed. It was always going to be a tough match.
“Stan, over the years, has played brilliant tennis on that court. He gave me very few opportunities. I didn’t have high expectations. I would have liked to have done better.
“Did the change of racquet play any factor? I don’t think so.
“In the last few years, I haven’t played a lot of clay-court tennis, I haven’t won a lot of matches.
“I don’t think it had much of a factor but it will also take a wee bit of time to get used to it. It’s different. There are positives to it. We will keep working on it.
“I told him well done for winning. We had a chat at the net. We have played and known each other for a long time.”
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26th May 2024, 22:21By Jon Boon
Wawrinka reaction to Murray win
My first words were respect for a great champion.
“I’ve loved watching Andy play, loved fighting against him. We’ve had a lot of fights over the last 15 years.
“We aren’t very young so we did all we could and remembered all these moments.
“I love to work in front of a crowd like this. I’ve shared a lot of emotion with this crowd and they gave me a lot of energy to fight. In my head I’m still a young guy, still a kid.
“It was emotional at the end. It was amazing to be playing on the night session. This was my best match of the year.
“Andy’s an amazing guy, an amazing player, such a big fighter. We have a lot of respect for each other.”
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26th May 2024, 21:51By Jon Boon
Murray 2-6 Wawrinka (0-3)
And that's it!
Wawrinka has defeated Andy Murray, who might just be appearing in his last ever French Open.
Murray got lucky early in the game, when a shot clipped the top of the net but dropped on Wawrinka's side.
That only riled Wawrinka up, who loves showing off that booming backhand down the line.
And of course, how does he finish the match? It's that brilliant back hand again down the line.
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26th May 2024, 21:46By Jon Boon
Murray 2-5 Wawrinka (0-2)
Fairplay. Murray has served the aces well and hits another one there.
It sets him up nicely to go 30-0 up. But Wawrinka hits a miracle shot, that might've sliced of the racket to clip the line with a bit of fortune.
Still, Murray is gritty. He wins that game to make Wawrinka serve for it.
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26th May 2024, 21:43By Jon Boon
Murray 1-5 Wawrinka (0-2)
And that's the first one held.
But only just. Wawrinka double-faulted to take the game into deuce.
But he quickly put it right with a monster serve to follow that up for the advantage.
Then he finishes it off with a powerful forehand through the middle of the court, with Murray second guessing it's placement.
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26th May 2024, 21:38By Jon Boon
Murray 1-4 Wawrinka (0-2)
He's not going out without a whimper.
Murray gets on the scoreboard, but you can't help but think this won't be his day.
All Wawrinka has to do is hold his next two serves and it's all over.
Wawrinka has been that bit more powerful on the serve and from the back of the court today.
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26th May 2024, 21:35By Jon Boon
Murray 0-4 Wawrinka (0-2)
The competitive edge is now fading away from this match.
Wawrinka is sweeping Murray aside now.
Murray didn't win a single point there, and Wawrinka is in cruise control.
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26th May 2024, 21:32By Jon Boon
Murray 0-3 Wawrinka (0-2)
Wawrinka gets himself into three break points.
It feels like these could be match points, to be fair.
Murray pulls one point back, but Wawrinka goes further away.
The lead now seems too much even for Murray to stage one of his epic comebacks.
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26th May 2024, 21:28By Jon Boon
Murray 0-2 Wawrinka (0-2)
Wawrinka's been watching Murray and delivers his own drop shot.
But he's got to be careful not to let Murray in, couple of careless points see Wawrinka 30-0 lead all square.
However, Stan holds his ground and then delivers an epic serve which he follows up with a volley to win the game.
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26th May 2024, 21:24By Jon Boon
Murray 0-1 Wawrinka (0-2)
This time a Murray drop shot falls short and hits the net.
Two points into the set, Murray is under pressure on his serve 0-30 down.
As he does, Murray fights back to level the score.
He chases every ball to stay in the rally, but Wawrinka went down the line with a brilliant back hand.
Then he repeated the trick in the next point to break Murray's serve at the first time of asking.
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26th May 2024, 21:20By Jon Boon
Murray has it all to do
Can Murray fight back in set number three?
It's a tough ask.
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26th May 2024, 21:13By Jon Boon
Murray 4-6 Wawrinka (0-2)
Murray gives himself a chance of breaking back - winning the opening two points.
But that serve has served Wawrinka well. He fights back and then piles on the pressure to level the scores. A well-constructed point from the Swiss.
Murray hits the net to gift Wawrinka set point with a failed routine forehand.
Wawrinka aces and puts Murray back in his box.
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26th May 2024, 21:08By Jon Boon
Murray 4-5 Wawrinka (0-1)
He's done it again... another brilliant drop shot from Murray.
But Murray is really struggling on his second serve, allowing Wawrinka back in.
There it is again though - ANOTHER drop shot point winner from Murray.
Murray holds his serve to make it interesting. Probably his best game that.
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26th May 2024, 21:05By Jon Boon
Murray 3-5 Wawrinka (0-1)
Really good serving from Wawrinka.
He races to 40-0... however, just as we say that Stan fires his first double fault.
Commentators curse, eh?
Murray's perfect with another drop shot, which he's going to more and more. To be fair, he's got no chance on the baseline exchanges with Wawrinka.
Still, it wasn't to be. Wawrinka is a game away from a two set lead.
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26th May 2024, 21:00By Jon Boon
Murray 3-4 Wawrinka (0-1)
The crowd is in raptures after a brilliant rally.
It was befitting of an exhibition match, not the first round of Roland-Garros.
Murray's point to go 30-0 up. Wawrinka isn't playing like a man who's had two knee ops. He's after Murray, he's relentless, and it's 30-30.
Poor return from Wawrinka though gifts Murray the opportunity to win the game, which he does with a super smooth disguised drop shot.
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26th May 2024, 20:54By Jon Boon
Murray 2-4 Wawrinka (0-1)
An aggressive forehand from Murray gets him level.
But Wawrinka shows no mercy with a controlled smash to go 40-15 up.
Murray's trying hard to keep the game alive, sliding around the court.
A scorching shot from Wawrinka wins the game though.
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26th May 2024, 20:48By Jon Boon
Murray 2-3 Wawrinka (0-1)
He's trailing, but he's still fighting.
Murray shows resilience by taking game five of the second set with relative ease.
Wawrinka still the driving seat.
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26th May 2024, 20:45By Jon Boon
Murray 1-3 Wawrinka (0-1)
Wawrinka's got the bit between his teeth now.
It's just sheer power from the Swiss star that is destroying Andy right now.
He really is struggling to keep up with his opponent.
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