After a couple of breaks from both Medvedev and Bagnis, we’re on serve on Suzanne Lenglen. Bagnis has looked lively and bring the Russian to the net with a sumptuous drop shot. Medvedev is one of the best movers on tour, but can only bunt it back over the net for an easy Bagnis finish. Lovely stuff.
Preamble
Welcome to the third day of the French Open at Roland Garros! The second seed in the men’s draw, and soon-to-be Wimbledon absentee, Daniil Medvedev, is first up on Suzanne Lenglen, against Facundo Bagnis. Ranked just outside the top 100, Bagnis has a heavily strapped right calf – this should be fairly straightforward for the Russian. But we’ve already seen some upsets this year in Paris. Medvedev receives a warm welcome from the French crowd. He reached the quarter-finals last year after four previous first-round exits.
Elsewhere in the men’s draw, Denis Shapovalov gets going against Holger Rune, while home favourite Ugo Humbert is underway against Emil Ruusuvuori.
Interestingly, on Court Simonne-Mathieu, No 8 seed Karolina Pliskova is currently 2-0 down in the opening set to Tessah Andrianjafitrimo, while Danielle Collins and lead Jeļena Ostapenko have early leads in their first-round matches against Viktoriya Tomova and Lucia Bronzetti respectively.
If you want to catch up on yesterday’s goings on, have a little gander below:
Let’s get into i
Let’s get into it!
