HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-French Open day one

Highlights of the first day ​at the French Open on ​Sunday (times GMT): 0909 PLAY UNDER WAY

Play ‌began under ​sunny skies with the temperature at Roland Garros hovering around 28 degrees Celsius and public weather ‌service Meteo France forecasting a high of 34 degrees later in the day. Former Olympic champion Belinda Bencic, seeded 11th, will take on Austrian qualifier Sinja Kraus ‌in the first match on Court Philippe Chatrier.

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FRENCH OPEN ⁠ORDER OF PLAY ON SUNDAY (prefix number denotes seeding): COURT PHILIPPE CHATRIER (play begins at 1000 GMT)

Sinja Kraus (Austria) v ⁠11-Belinda ​Bencic (Switzerland) Benjamin Bonzi (France) v 2-Alexander Zverev (Germany)

8-Mirra Andreeva (Russia) v Fiona Ferro (France) Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (France) v 3-Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

COURT SUZANNE LENGLEN (play begins at 0900 GMT) 13-Karen Khachanov (Russia) v Arthur ⁠Gea (France)

26-Hailey Baptiste (United States) v Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) 7-Taylor Fritz (U.S.) v Nishesh Basavareddy (U.S.)

Ksenia Efremova (France) v ⁠18-Sorana Cirstea (Romania) COURT SIMONNE ⁠MATHIEU (play begins at 0900 GMT)

15-Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine) v Oksana Selekhmeteva (Russia) Katie Volynets (U.S.) v Clara Burel (France)

Titouan Droguet (France) v 26-Jakub Mensik (Czech Republic) 28-Joao Fonseca (Brazil) ‌v Luka ‌Pavlovic (France) (Compiled by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing ​by Ken Ferris)

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