Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal continued straight-sets runs at the French Open, each sweeping Germans who played in qualifying last week in the second round on Wednesday.
Federer, playing Roland Garros for the first time since 2015, beat lucky loser Oscar Otte 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. The 20-time major winner gets Norwegian Casper Ruud next. Ruud’s father, Christian, played in the 1999 French Open, the first major of Federer’s career.
“I know probably more about his dad than about him,” Federer said (Ruud said separately that his father once practiced with Federer but never played against him).