Due to a pair of rain delays, most of the matches on the opening day of the 2016 French Open were postponed to Monday. Kei Nishikori and Garbine Muguruza, the top-seeded players in the men’s and women’s singles brackets playing on Day 1, both wound up having their matches delayed into the tournament’s second day.
French Open 2016: Times, TV schedule, matches and live stream for Day 2 at Roland Garros
Day 2 of the French Open will feature Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka ... as well as a bunch of players who were supposed to play on Day 1 but were faced with a rain delay.
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Nishikori is in the third set against Simone Bolelli, leading at 6-1, 7-5, 2-1 when his match was postponed. Muguruza never got to start her match against unseeded opponent Anna Karolina Schmiedlova and will face her on Suzanne-Lenglen Court to start the day.
On the men’s side, the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the tournament, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, will be in action. Murray is set to face the tough Radek Stepanek, who could be one of the tougher opening-round matchups for seeded opponents. Wawrinka, the defending champion at Roland Garros, will face Lukas Rosol, another tough opening-round match.
On the women’s side, No. 2 seed Agnieszka Radwanska will face Bojana Jovanovski. No. 6 seed Simona Halep also did not manage to play her match on Day 1, so she will face Nao Hibino on Monday.
Notably, Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer are not in the tournament, though for entirely different reasons. Federer is out with an injury, while Sharapova is serving a suspension for a positive drug test. Top seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams have not taken the court yet and will not on Tuesday.
Television coverage of the day begins at 5 a.m. ET on the Tennis Channel. Their coverage will run through 3 p.m. Online streaming is available at NBC Sports Live Extra and the Tennis Channel.
Below are all of Monday's opening-round matches containing seeded players, with a full schedule available here.
Men’s Singles
No. 2 Andy Murray vs. Radek Stepanek
No. 3 Stan Wawrinka vs. Lukas Rosol
No. 5 Kei Nishikori vs. Simone Bolelli: To finish 6-1, 7-5, 2-1
No. 8 Milos Raonic vs. Janko Tipsarevic
No. 9 Richard Gasquet vs. Thomaz Bellucci
No. 10 Marin Cilic vs. Marco Trungelliti
No. 15 John Isner vs. John Millman
No. 16 Gilles Simon vs. Rogerio Dutra Silva
No. 22 Viktor Troicki vs. Grigor Dimitrov
No. 23 Jack Sock vs. Robin Haase: To finish, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-7(3)
No. 25 Pablo Cuevas vs. Tobias Kamke
No. 27 Ivo Karlovic vs. Albert Montanes
No. 29 Lucas Pouille vs. Julien Benneteau
No. 30 Jeremy Chardy vs. Leonardo Mayer
No. 33 Steve Johnson vs. Fernando Verdasco
Women’s Singles
No. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Bojana Jovanovski
No. 4 Garbine Muguruza vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
No. 6 Simona Halep vs. Nao Hibino
No. 7 Roberta Vinci vs. Kateryna Bondarenko
No. 12 Carla Suarez Navarro vs. Katerina Siniakova
No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Yaroslava Shvedova: To finish, 4-6, 6-1, 3-1
No. 14 Ana Ivanovic vs. Oceane Dodin
No. 16 Sara Errani vs. Tsvetana Pironkova
No. 17 Karolina Pliskova vs. Shelby Rogers
No. 18 Elina Svitolina vs. Sorana Cirstea
No. 19 Sloane Stephens vs. Margarita Gasparyan
No. 21 Samantha Stosur vs. Misaki Doi
No. 22 Dominika Cibulkova vs. Saisai Zheng
No. 23 Jelena Jankovic vs. Tatjana Maria
No. 25 Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Bethanie Mattek-Sands
No. 27 Ekaterina Makarova vs. Varvara Lepchenko
No. 30 Barbora Strycova vs. Lucie Hradecka
No. 32 Jelena Ostapenko vs. Naomi Osaka
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