Canadian Milos Raonic won his opening match at the French Open on Sunday as he beat Australian wildcard Nick Kyrgios 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 to reach the second round.
The eighth seed from Thornhill, Ont., spent exactly two hours to advance against one of rising young hopes of the Aussie game.
He achieved a personal record as he beat an Australian opponent for the first time at a grand slam after losing to Carsten Ball at the 2010 U.S. Open and Lleyton Hewitt at the 2012 Australian Open.
Raonic won on his third match point, sealing victory with a 27th ace.
The Canadian, who came to Roland Garros from a Rome semi-final last weekend, finished with 50 winners and 30 unforced errors, breaking on four of ten chances.
His next opponent will come from one of two Czechs, Lukasz Rosol or Jiri Vesely.
Peter Polansky of Toronto lost to former Grand Slam finalist Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
With his twin daughters watching from the stands, Roger Federer moved into the second round after a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 win over Lukas Lacko on Sunday.
Federer has played in only two clay-court tournaments this season. He reached the final in Monte Carlo but missed the Madrid tournament when his second set of twins, boys Leo and Lenny, was born.
His first match after their birth was a loss in Rome.
On Sunday, with the clay court hard and damp due to days of rain and overcast skies, the fourth-seeded Federer was back to himself, winning five of his 11 break points.
"When I was a little kid, I always wanted to play tennis. It's still the same," Federer said. "Some players get tired of traveling, of the whole organization. But for me it's not really a problem."
Federer's twin girls, Myla Rose and Charlene Riva, will turn 5 in July. They were sitting in Federer's box along with his wife Mirka.
In the women's tournament, Agnieszka Radwanska was able to reach the second round — once she got a handle on her serve.
Radwanska and Zhang Shuai traded breaks in the opening seven games of their match, but the third-seeded Pole finally held and won the final nine games to become the first player to reach the second round, winning 6-3, 6-0.
"So many breaks in a row," said Radwanska, who blamed her struggles on the wet court.
Radwanska reached the Wimbledon final in 2012, but her best result at Roland Garros was a spot in the quarterfinals last year.
"Clay is not really my favourite surface, but I'm trying," Radwanska said. "Last year I did my first quarterfinal, so hopefully this year I can do even better."
Serena Williams began the defense of her French Open title with a 6-2, 6-1 victory Sunday over 138th-ranked Alize Lim, a wild-card entry from France.
The top-seeded Williams dictated most points and wound up with 30 more winners — but also 24 more unforced errors — than Lim.
Williams is a 17-time major champion who was facing a woman making her Grand Slam debut. Still, there was a bit of shakiness from the 32-year-old American as she served out the final game, erasing four break points and needing five match points to close things. Williams saved all seven break points she faced in the match. She improved to 54-1 in first-round matches at majors. The only loss came at the 2012 French Open against 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano.
Sister Venus Williams advanced to the second round by beating Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-4, 6-1 Sunday.
Williams was down a break early in the first set, but she was able to recover and take control of the match.
The 29th-seeded American has won seven Grand Slam titles, but she lost to sister Serena the only time she reached the French Open final in 2002.
This season, Venus won in Dubai in February, her first title since 2012.
Later on Day 1 at Roland Garros, top-seeded Serena plays Alize Lim of France.
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