Carlos Alcaraz resumes his French Open campaign on Wednesday while the match of the day takes place between Iga Swiatek and Naomi Osaka.
Defending champion and world No 1 Swiatek is looking to make it three-in-a-row at Roland Garros and takes on four-time grand slam winner Osaka in a tantalising match-up. They’re third up on Court Philippe-Chatrier.
Wimbledon champion Alcaraz is in action before them with Jannik Sinner, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev the other high-seeded men in second round action.
Elsewhere in the women’s singles, US Open champion Coco Gauff takes on Slovenian qualifier Tamara Zidansek and home favourite Caroline Garcia faces former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin.
Yesterday, Katie Boulter and Dan Evans joined the British exodus from Roland Garros, with all six British players entered in the main draw failing to reach the second round in Paris
Australian tennis star and former Wimbledon doubles champion Max Purcell was knocked out of the French Open – after failing to win a match point using an underarm serve.
“I do it a lot in practice, it’s worth going for it – absolutely,” Purcell said of his underarm attempt. “No regrets – hindsight’s a s**t thing, isn’t it? No just take the positives, learn from them – I hate living in the past.
“I’ll go practice tomorrow, then doubles the next day. The game keeps going, it’s fine.
“I’m proud of the way that I fought, I should have walked off with the spoils, but that’s tennis, it’s a s**t sport, you don’t always win when you’re winning.”
Dan Evans declared himself “fed up with umpires” after he suffered another first-round defeat at his least favourite grand slam,
The British number three had a furious row with umpire Jaume Campistol after the Spanish official had two lengthy discussions with the young Dane in the third set.
Campistol issued Rune a warning for smashing his racket on the ground and then in the next game talked through a line call while Evans waited to serve.
Evans was immediately broken and lost his rag at the official, fuming: “He doesn’t need a conversation on my serve. Let the f****** match play.
“Do your job! You don’t have to have a conversation with him. It’s twice in two games. Madness.”
After his 6-4 6-4 6-4 defeat, Evans said: “I’m fed up with the umpires, full stop.
“One second he has a conversation the game before because he’s hit his racket. I don’t care if he wants a conversation on his serve – but it’s not really a conversation about the other one.
“Guy sees the ball, the other guy says the ball is out, that’s it. I feel like I’m on a roll and I was disrupted, but it’s not Rune’s fault if he’s allowed to have a conversation.
“It was just a chat. And I’m waiting to serve. It’s freezing on the court. The match was flowing great and then it just stopped in the middle and I don’t understand.
“But anyway, that’s not the reason I lost. That’s just part of the issue, part of the problem, but he’ll be back in work again tomorrow.”
