Cameron Norrie and Sonay Kartal also safely through to second round, joining Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Jacob Fearnley

Novak Djokovic has returned to Roland-Garros with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Mackie McDonald in the first round.

The second of tennis' Grand Slam events gets underway on May 25 with the start of the French Open. The clay-court tournament is one where a slower surface speed puts an emphasis on the ability to win extended rallies and play off the baseline rather than relying on a dominant serve.

The French Open's packed schedule led to some of the top players in the world playing on the smallest courts at Roland Garros.

American Ben Shelton has reached the third round at the French Open for the second year in a row — and this time didn’t even need to swing his racket.

PARIS — Novak Djokovic experienced the lowest of lows — pulling out of the French Open after tearing the meniscus in his right knee — and the highest of highs — winning a long-sought Olympic gold medal for Serbia — at Roland-Garros last year. This trip to the site went smoothly, once he got going.

Roland-Garros is the last of the major tennis tournaments to trust human line judges over electronic calls, resisting technology in favor of the age-old method of pointing at some marks in the dirt.

Novak Djokovic thinks the French Open is making a mistake by eschewing the electronic line-calling and instead remaining old school by letting line judges decide.