Roland-Garros: Rybakina improves to 9-1 on clay this year with first round win

Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 4 seed, won against Belgian Greet Minnen 6-2, 6-3 to reach the second round of Roland-Garros in Paris on Tuesday.

Minnen started the match well, going up an early break to lead before Rybakina won the next six games in a row to win the first set. The Kazakh also led 5-1 in the second set before a mini-comeback by the Belgian, which was stopped as Rybakina served out the match 6-2, 6-3.

The former Wimbledon champion, who missed this tournament last year due to health issues, hit 36 winners and 21 unforced errors in the one hour, 14-minute encounter. This was her 31st win in 36 matches on the tour in 2024 (also 9-1 on clay).

Rybakina, ranked No 4, will face the winner of the match between Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus and German Angelique Kerber next.

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

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (13): 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
• Bernarda Pera beat Nao Hibino: 6-2, 6-0
• Ana Bogdan beat Elsa Jacquemot (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Julia Riera (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Cristina Bucsa beat Yulia Starodubtseva (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Diane Parry beat Fiona Ferro (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Linda Noskova (27) beat Harriet Dart: 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Varvara Gracheva beat Maria Sakkari (6): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Bianca Andreescu beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 7-5, 6-1
• Elina Svitolina (15) beat Karolina Pliskova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Camila Osorio beat Anhelina Kalinina: 3-6, 7-6 (2), 4-1 ret.
• Anna Kalinskaya (23) beat Clara Burel: 7-6 (3), 7-5
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (20) beat Panna Udvardy (LL): 6-3, 6-4
• Danielle Collins (11) beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-3, 6-4
• Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Jessika Ponchet (WC): 6-2, 6-0
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Julia Avdeeva (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (16): 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Ons Jabeur (8) beat Sachia Vickery (WC): 6-3, 6-2
• Jasmine Paolini (12) beat Daria Saville: 6-3, 6-4
• Hailey Baptiste (LL) beat Kayla Day: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (17) beat Magda Linette: 6-1, 6-1
• Marketa Vondrousova (5) beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-1, 6-3
• Anastasia Potapova beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-3
• Katie Volynets (Q) beat Aleksandra Krunic: 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Olga Danilovic (Q) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-1, 6-2
• Xinyu Wang beat Jule Niemeier (Q): 0-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Viktorija Golubic beat Barbora Krejcikova (24): 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Tamara Zidansek (Q) beat Alison Van Uytvanck: 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
• Clara Tauson beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-3
• Chloe Paquet (WC) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-3, 6-1
• Xiyu Wang beat Zhuoxuan Bai: 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-3
• Amanda Anisimova beat Rebecca Sramkova (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (21) beat Eva Lys (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Katerina Siniakova (32) beat Dalma Galfi (LL): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
• Sofia Kenin beat Laura Siegemund: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-4, 7-5
• Jana Fett (LL) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-2, 3-6, 7-5
• Marta Kostyuk (18) beat Laura Pigossi (Q): 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4
• Naomi Osaka beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
• Dayana Yastremska (30) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Yafan Wang beat Maria Timofeeva: 6-3, 6-3
• Marie Bouzkova beat Veronika Kudermetova (29): 6-2, 6-4
• Donna Vekic beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-5 ret.
• Irene Burillo Escorihuela vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Sloane Stephens
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Sara Errani vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Erika Andreeva vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Madison Keys vs. Renata Zarazua
• Katie Boulter vs. Paula Badosa
• Zeynep Sonmez vs. Emma Navarro
• Magdalena Frech vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Lucija Ciric Bagaric vs. Peyton Stearns
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Emina Bektas
• Yue Yuan vs. Mayar Sherif
• Arantxa Rus vs. Angelique Kerber
• Petra Martic vs. Kristina Mladenovic
• Anna Blinkova vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Elise Mertens vs. Maria Lourdes Carle
• Lin Zhu vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Alize Cornet