Roland-Garros: Dimitrov through to second round after straight sets win

Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 10 seed, advanced to the second round of Roland-Garros by beating American Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in Paris on Sunday.

The French Open remains the only Slam where Dimitrov has not reached the quarter-finals (he has been a semi-finalist at all the other three Majors). In his 14th main draw appearance, this is the ninth time that he has won his opening round in Paris.

Dimitrov, ranked No 10, will play the winner of the match between Hungarian Fabian Marozsan and Kazakh qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin 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
• 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
• 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
• Sebastian Korda vs. Harold Mayot
• Laslo Djere vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Corentin Moutet
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Zizou Bergs
• Kei Nishikori vs. Gabriel Diallo
• Luca Nardi vs. Alexandre Muller
• Richard Gasquet vs. Borna Coric
• J.J. Wolf vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Jordan Thompson vs. Maximilian Marterer
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Shintaro Mochizuki
• Jack Draper vs. Jesper De Jong