It was a nerve-wracking start for our Jimmie48 on Monday, as he photographed first-round matches happening at the same time at basically opposite sides of the Roland Garros venue, but he succeeded, so we have both photos of Katerina Siniakova‘s triumph over Victoria Azarenka than happened on Court 18 and of Petra Kvitova‘s comeback victory over Veronica Cepede Royg on Court Philippe Chatrier.
In other first-round action, Belinda Bencic won her first main-draw match since Indian Wells by defeating Italian Deborah Chiesa after saving five match points and later impressed at the press conference by speaking Swiss German, German, English and Slovakian.