Day One at Roland Garros and we saw the demise of last years champion Jelena Ostapenko. It was world number 67 Kateryna Kozlova who did the damage in straight sets 7-5 6-3.
Ostapenko let herself down on serve, with just 47% of her first attempts finding the mark, and 13 double faults contributed.
Kozlova converted 7 of the 16 break point opportunities presented to her, while 48 unforced errors were costly for the fifth seed.
Elina Svitolina (4) was down 1-5 in the first set against Ajla Tomljanovic, but came back strongly to win the set and match 7-5 6-3
Her path through the draw has been made a whole lot easier with the Ostapenko defeat and the first round loss of ninth seed Venus Williams.
Venus was eliminated by Qiang Wang, ranked 85, the scoreline 6-4 7-5.
This is the second Grand Slam tournament in succession where Venus has been dumped in the first round.
Wang had lost to Venus in the opening round of Roland Garros last year, and also the second round of 2018 Wimbledon. This was only her second win over a top ten opponent.
19 winners as against just 14 unforced errors indicates how well controlled Wang played.
All the seeded men that were in action on Day One won their matches, including:
Grigor Dimitrov (4)
Lucas Pouille (15)
Gaël Monfils (32)
Sascha Zverev (2)
Kei Nishikori (19)
David Goffin (8) in five sets after losing the first two against Robin Haase
Fernando Verdasco (30)
Damir Dzumhur (26)
Pablo Carreño Busta (10)
The successful women seeds apart from Svitolina were:
Alizé Cornet (32)
Barbora Strycova (26)
Sloane Stephens (10)
Anett Kontaveit (25)
Johanna Konta (22) fell to Yulia Putintseva 6-4 6-3
Nick Kyrgios, who would have been seeded 17, withdrew because of his elbow injury - he will return with the grass court season in Stuttgart.
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