Roland-Garros: De Jong advances to the second round

Dutch qualifier Jesper De Jong beat Jack Draper 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 3-6, 6-3 to advance to the second round of Roland-Garros at Roland-Garros in Paris on Sunday.

De Jong, ranked No 177, will face Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the No 3 seed, next.

“I think the first couple of sets I was a little bit tight and then ended up finding a bit of a level,” said Draper after his loss on Sunday. “Then obviously just important points let me down. And, yeah, I need to start being more relaxed, but I think I’m getting better at that, to be honest.”

“I’m obviously extremely disappointed right now,” the Brit continued. “Like, this loss hurts a lot. I think I’m in a good place, you know, compared to last year having all my injuries and stuff.

“I’ve played a long match there. Felt physically great. I look at the positives on that side, but my tennis… yeah, I know I’m so much better than how I played today, and that’s what hurts. That’s the thing.

“We have to have a short-term memory in tennis, and there will be more opportunities to come. I just hope that I can learn from this loss and start — you know, keep on progressing in the right direction.”

Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):

• Nuno Borges vs. Tomas Machac
• Mariano Navone vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Gregoire Barrere vs. Alexander Bublik
• Roman Andres Burruchaga vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Jaume Munar vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Alex De Minaur vs. Alex Michelsen
• Daniel Evans vs. Holger Rune
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Luciano Darderi
• David Goffin vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
• Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Casper Ruud
• Valentin Vacherot vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Adam Walton
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Taylor Fritz vs. Federico Coria
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Constant Lestienne
• Novak Djokovic vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert
• Gael Monfils vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Roman Safiullin
• Pedro Cachin vs. Tommy Paul
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Alexander Zverev vs. Rafael Nadal
• Mattia Bellucci vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Luca Van Assche vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Fabio Fognini vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Filip Misolic vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Cameron Norrie vs. Pavel Kotov
• Gustavo Heide vs. Sebastian Baez
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Arthur Fils
• Jozef Kovalik vs. Marcos Giron
• Karen Khachanov vs. Sumit Nagal
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Jannik Sinner
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. SoonWoo Kwon
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Max Purcell vs. Henri Squire
• Ben Shelton vs. Hugo Gaston
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Andy Murray
• Terence Atmane vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Laslo Djere vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Sebastian Korda vs. Harold Mayot
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Corentin Moutet
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
• Kei Nishikori vs. Gabriel Diallo: sunday
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Zizou Bergs: sunday
• Luca Nardi vs. Alexandre Muller: sunday
• Richard Gasquet vs. Borna Coric: sunday
• Carlos Alcaraz beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-1, 6-2, 6-1
• Maximilian Marterer beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 6-2, 6-0
• Grigor Dimitrov (10) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
• Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
• Lorenzo Sonego beat Ugo Humbert (17): 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Pedro Martinez beat Thiago Agustin Tirante: 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Andrey Rublev (6) beat Taro Daniel: 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-5
• Brandon Nakashima beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (WC): 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2