Wawrinka lost the first set 6-4 before winning the last three 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.
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Safarova didn’t let a mid-match rain delay of almost three hours throw off her rhythm.
Roger Federer will be missing the first Grand Slam tournament since 1999 and has appeared in 65 straight Grand Slam tournaments.
Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic has closed out a comfortable 6-0, 6-2 win against Vitalia Diatchenko, getting back to the warmth of the locker room just as rain picked up again at the French Open and forced the cancellation of all remaining matches Sunday.
Heather Watson and Nicole Gibbs are all square at one set a piece in their match which will restart at 19:00 (HKT) on Monday. This now includes the majors at Roland Garros, the 2016 French Open, where the Swiss Maestro won seven years ago.
“I am still not 100 percent and feel I might be taking an unnecessary risk by playing in this event before I am really ready”, Federer posted on his website about missing the 2016 French Open. He was the No. 6 seed past year and lost in straight sets to Djokovic, who beat him 7-5, 6-3, 6-1 in the quarterfinals.
Kyrgios wound up with a 7-6, (6), 7-6 (6), 6-4 victory over Marco Cecchinato, a 23-year-old Italian ranked 124th who has lost all four Grand Slam matches in his career.
But the schedule already is being shuffled because of showers that created a delay of more than 2 1/2 hours in the afternoon and returned to halt all play in the early evening, allowing a total of only 10 out of 32 matches to be completed.
But after trailing 2-1 in sets, Wawrinka took the last two to win what shaped up beforehand as a mismatch in his favor.
She broke for a 5-4 lead after Kvitova hit three double faults but the two-time Wimbledon champion won the next three games to seal the match. “For The French Open I had to wait until 2009, I tried to reinvent myself on clay a few times”, Federer said via the Roland Garros YouTube channel.
Kovinic has never gone beyond the second round at any Grand Slam tournament while Kvitova’s best result at the French Open is a semifinalist spot back in 2012.
Rafael Nadal has won a record nine French Open titles, and he is the +350 second choice as the No. 4 seed.
Despite rain much of the morning, the French Open has started.
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Defending champion Stan Wawrinka got off to a shaky start at the French Open, surviving five tough sets to beat Lukas Rosol 4-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 Monday in the first round.
