French Open 2016: Sunday Results, Highlights, Scores Recap from Roland Garros

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Published: May 22, 2016

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Consistent rainfall shortened the first day of the French Open at Roland Garros on Sunday, forcing many of the day's scheduled matches to be moved to Monday.  

Nonetheless, several big names managed to finish their matches on Sunday. Below, we'll take a look back at the completed matches from Day 1 at Roland Garros.

 

Men's Results

Both of the top men in play on Sunday, No. 17 Nick Kyrgios and No. 19 Benoit Paire, survived tough bouts to advance to the second round.

Kyrgios' match was marked by some controversy, as the fiery Australian got into a dispute with chair umpire Carlos Ramos, who took exception to Kyrgios loudly demanding a towel from one of the ballboys. Kyrgios argued with Ramos after being issued a code violation, though he settled down to defeat Marco Cecchinato.

Kyrgios addressed the situation after the match, per CNN.com:

For me that time I didn't get mad at all. I just said it a little bit loud. The crowd was going on. I just felt like it was a bit rough. It's not an easy job out there, especially five-set matches, to concentrate, I think they do a good job. I think with someone like me that's pretty emotional it can frustrate me a little bit, but I felt like I dealt with it pretty well.

The Australian needed two 8-6 tiebreaker wins in his first two sets before earning a 6-4 win in the third set to get past Cecchinato. He smashed 16 aces and wasn't broken once. 

He also provided some top highlights, including this shot, per Roland Garros:



He ripped a few winners like this one as well:



Paire, meanwhile, needed all five sets to get past Radu Albot, smashing nine aces and winning 23 of his 34 net points. He also ripped 65 winners to just 16 for Albot.

Paire had an up-and-down performance; however, as Juan Jose Vallejo of Ro...
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