Roland-Garros: 28th seed Mertens advances to second round for seventh year in a row

Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 28 seed, beat Slovak lucky loser Viktoria Hruncakova 6-1, 6-4 to reach the second round of Roland-Garros in Paris on Sunday.

This was the seventh year in a row that Mertens is through to the second round in Paris. The Belgian has reached at least the third round at the French Open in the last six editions.

Mertens, ranked No 28, will face the winner of the match between American Caty McNally and Romanian Ana Bogdan next.

Roland-Garros (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49,600,000)

• Kamilla Rakhimova beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 6-0, 6-3
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-3, 6-2
• Iryna Shymanovich (Q) beat Panna Udvardy: 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1
• Magdalena Frech beat Shuai Zhang (29): 6-1, 6-1
• Storm Hunter (Q) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Nadia Podoroska beat Jessika Ponchet (WC): 6-0, 6-2
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Ons Jabeur
• Selena Janicijevic vs. Oceane Dodin
• Olga Danilovic vs. Kateryna Baindl
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Petra Martic vs. Shelby Rogers
• Clara Burel vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Linda Noskova vs. Danka Kovinic
• Elena Rybakina vs. Brenda Fruhvirtova
• Rebeka Masarova vs. Coco Gauff
• Arantxa Rus vs. Julia Grabher
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Alison Riske-Amritraj
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Diane Parry
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Lin Zhu vs. Lauren Davis
• Erika Andreeva vs. Emma Navarro
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Xinyu Wang vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Rebecca Peterson vs. Fiona Ferro
• Ylena In-Albon vs. Claire Liu
• Iga Swiatek vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Tereza Martincova
• Anna Blinkova vs. Ysaline Bonaventure
• Simona Waltert vs. Elizabeth Mandlik
• Petra Kvitova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Nao Hibino vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Caroline Garcia vs. Xiyu Wang
• Peyton Stearns vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Elina Svitolina vs. Martina Trevisan
• Tatjana Maria vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Aliona Bolsova vs. Kristina Kucova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Maryna Zanevska
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Dalma Galfi
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Alycia Parks
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Belinda Bencic
• Rebecca Marino vs. Diana Shnaider
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Sloane Stephens
• Catherine McNally vs. Ana Bogdan
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Donna Vekic
• Anett Kontaveit vs. Bernarda Pera
• Kaia Kanepi vs. Madison Keys
• Kayla Day vs. Kristina Mladenovic
• Jule Niemeier vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Danielle Collins vs. Jessica Pegula
• Taylor Townsend vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Mayar Sherif vs. Madison Brengle
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Katie Volynets
• Clara Tauson vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Anna Bondar vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
• Sara Errani vs. Jil Teichmann
• Tamara Zidansek vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Alize Cornet vs. Camila Giorgi
• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Maria Sakkari vs. Karolina Muchova
• Magda Linette vs. Leylah Fernandez