Roland Garros-2017: easy start for Halep and Radwanska

On the clay courts of Paris complete the starting round of the Open championship of France on tennis.

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, who heads the list of favorites of Roland Garros, recovered after injury of the ankle ligaments and easily took the second round, Yana chepelova the revenge for the defeat at Wimbledon in 2015. Next opponent Halep will be the German woman Tatiana Maria.

Agnieszka Radwanska, conducting one of the worst seasons in his career, in the first round of Roland Garros couldn’t afford to lose to a rival that is not in the top 200 of the WTA rankings. Decorated pole in the match against Fiona ferro has lost only two games.

The main sensation of the day was the quick departure of the first racket of the UK’s Johanna konta is the seventh seed came to Paris for the first victory in the main draw of Roland Garros, but once again gave the opening match. Konta became the second after the Angelique Kerber tennis player top 10 who failed to successfully start on the clay Slam.

Not to mention convincing start American Madison keys are the 12th seed in the fourth round may enter the main hope of Ukraine Elina Svitolina.

The results of matches of seeded players:

Johanna Konta (Britain, 7) — Xie Su-Wei (Chinese Taipei) — 6:1, 6:7, 4:6

Jan Chepalova (Slovakia) – Simona Halep (Romania, 3) — 2:6, 3:6

Nao Hibino (Japan) – Caroline Garcia (Spain, 28) — 2:6, 2:6

Fiona Ferro (France) – Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland, 9) — 1:6, 1:6

Ashleigh Barty (Australia) Madison keys (USA, 12) — 3:6, 2:6

Anastasia Sevastova (Latvia, 17) – Annika Beck (Germany) — 6:2, 6:4

Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic, 20) – Alison Riske (USA) — 6:3, 6:0

Daria Kasatkina (Russia, 26) – Yanina Wickmayer (Belgium) — 7:5, 6:4

Maria Zaccari (Greece) – Carla Suarez-Navarro (Spain, 21) — 4:6, 2:6

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