Men’s No. 3 seed Andy Murray and women’s No. 2 seed Maria Sharapova gets their 2015 French Open started on Monday, highlighting a slew of first-round matches on both the men’s and women’s draws at Roland Garros.
2015 French Open: Matches and TV schedule for Monday at Roland Garros
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Murray, who reached the final of the Australian Open, the first grand slam of the year, is gunning for his first French Open final this year. His journey starts with a first-round matchup against Facundo Arguello of Argentina.
Murray’s best showing at the French Open was reaching the semifinals twice, including 2014. In both semifinal matches for Murray (2011 and 2014), he lost to eventual champion Rafael Nadal. If those two meet again this year at Rolland Garros, it would be in the quarterfinals, as Nadal enters as the sixth seed despite winning the tournament five years running and nine of the last 10 years.
Monday's Results
Sharapova, who won at Roland Garros in 2014 and has captured French Open titles in two of the last three years, will face Kaia Kanepi of Estonia in the first round.
ESPN2 will provide television coverage of Monday’s action from 5-10 a.m. ET, with ESPN3 provided coverage for matches on up to seven courts online from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Here are seeded players in action on Day 2 of the French Open:
Men’s singles
No. 3 Andy Murray vs. Facundo Arguello
No. 4 Tomas Berdych vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
No. 11 Feliciano Lopez vs. TeymurazGabashvili
No. 12 Gilles Simon vs. Lucas Pouille
No. 13 Gael Monfils vs. Edouard Roger-Vasselin
No. 17 David Goffin vs. Filip Krajinovik
No. 18 Tommy Robredo vs. Andrey Golubev
No. 21 Pablo Cuevas vs. Sam Groth
No. 27 Bernard Tomic vs. Luca Vannni
No. 28 Fabio Fognini vs. Tatsuma Ito
No. 29 Nick Kyrgios vs. Denis Istomin
No. 30 Adrian Mannarino vs. Jergen Melzer
No. 32 Fernando Verdasco vs. Taro Daniel
Women’s singles
No. 2 Maria Sharapova vs. Kaia Kanepi
No. 8 Carla Suarez Navarro vs. Monica Niculescu
No. 11 Angelique Kerber vs. Timea Babos
No. 12 Karolina Pliskova vs. Shuai Zhang
No. 15 Venus Williams vs. Sloane Stephens
No. 17 Sara Errani vs. Alison Riske
No. 19 Elina Svitolina vs. Yanina Wickmayer
No. 20 Sabine Lisicki vs. Monica Puig
No. 22 Barbora Strycova vs. Tsvetana Pironkova
No. 26 Samantha Stosur vs. Madison Brengle
No. 27 Victoria Azarenka vs. Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor
No. 29 Alize Cornet vs. Roberta Vinci
No. 30 Irina-Camela Begu vs. Bethanie Mattek-Sands
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