PARIS, May 24 (Reuters) – Highlights of the first day at the French Open on Sunday (times GMT):
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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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