Roland-Garros: Rublev needs four sets to reach second round

Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 6 seed, moved into the second round of Roland-Garros by edging out Japanese Taro Daniel 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-5 at Roland-Garros in Paris on Sunday.

The win, which took 3 hours and 11 minutes, was the Russian’s11th straight first-round win in Grand Slam tournaments. The last time Rublev lost in the opening round at a Major was here in Paris in 2021.

Rublev, ranked No 6 and winner of the Madrid Masters earlier this month, will play the winner of the match between Spaniard Pedro Martinez and Argentinian Thiago Agustin Tirante next.

Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53,478,000):

• 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
• Brandon Nakashima beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (WC): 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2
• Pedro Martinez vs. Thiago Agustin Tirante: sunday
• 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
• Laslo Djere vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Terence Atmane vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Corentin Moutet
• Sebastian Korda vs. Harold Mayot
• Richard Gasquet vs. Borna Coric
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Zizou Bergs
• J.J. Wolf vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Kei Nishikori vs. Gabriel Diallo
• Luca Nardi vs. Alexandre Muller
• Jordan Thompson vs. Maximilian Marterer: sunday
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Grigor Dimitrov: sunday
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Shintaro Mochizuki: sunday
• Jack Draper vs. Jesper De Jong: sunday