So, today was Brit Day at Roland Garros, with all five in action on the same day. With the main attraction always going to be Andy Murray as the highest ranked Brit and the world number three, he got the advantage of playing on Philippe Chatrier, so would have the bigger crowd of the Brits. There was some wind blowing around the court and this was unsettling at the start. Murray got off to a slow start and held serve after a very long game with four deuces, and one break point that he saved, in the next game Murray had two breakpoints and converted on the 2nd one before holding to love to go 3-0 up. A sloppy game at 3-1 saw Murray broken for the first time in the match, however he soon got the break back at 4-3 after another long game, this time Murray only needed on break point opportunity to seal it, he then held to 30 and took the first set 6-3. 

In the second set the first couple of games were relatively easy holds, before another long game saw Arguello hold after a second deuce. Murray broke to love at 2-2 to get infront in the set, he did not drop serve or have any great difficulty in his next service games, before he broke again to love to seal the 2nd set 6-3. Moving into set three and Murray stepped up a gear as he broke in the 2nd game of the set on his 2nd breakpoint opportunity, Murray only dropped 3 more points the whole match as he had adjusted to the varying wind direction and gusts. Murray progressed in straight sets to round 2 with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 win in a match that he won, but didn't need to play his best tennis to go by the qualifier.

New Brit Aljaz Bedene (pronounced Ali-ash Bed-eh-nay) had a tough match up against Dominic Thiem who is ranked 31st in the world.  Bedene had to save a break point in his first service game, and tried to save another two in his next, but Thiem was just too good, coming off the back of the recent title in Nice. Bedene managed to break on his first opportunity in this set to get a little closer, but ultimately Thiem showed his higher ranking and closed out the set 6-3. The 2nd set started much the same way with Bedene dropping serve on the third break point. This continued in the 3rd game when Bedene again dropped serve but this time only one break point was needed. Bedene had three break point opportunties in the 4th game to try and claim the break back, but they were all saved in the longest game of the set and the Brit was down 0-4, it was not looking good. The next service game and Bedene held his serve to 15 and then managed to get one of the breaks back on his first opportunity on Thiem serve this set, the rest of the set stayed on serve and Thiem served it out. He was one set away from the next round.

In the third set, Bedene was the first to face a break point on serve in the first game but he managed to hold. At 2-1 Bedene then managed to break Thiem for the first time in the set, but was unable to consolidate and was broken straight back. The next break opportunity came for Theim in game nine, in fact he had 2 of them, but Bedene stood firm in a game that provided 5 deuces. This set was heading for a tiebreak, and that is where it ended up, Bedene saved 2 match points and went on to win the breaker and this match would go to a 4th set. After failing to convert a breakpoint in the third game, Bedene dropped serve the very next game. It was the only break in this set but this was all Thiem needed to take the match 6-3, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3.

In the final ATP match with British interest (and incidentally, the one this writer picked as their intriguing first round match up) Kyle Edmund faced off against fellow qualifier Stephane Robert. With the crowd behind him Robert made the perfect start and broke in the 3rd game on his second break point opportunity, Robert broke again in game five to go into a 4-1 lead. Edmund had not been making much inroads to the Robert serve and this was the same for the rest of this set as Edmund lost it 2-6. In the second set and Edmund started to play better, seemingly having worked out what Robert was going to do next and secured the break on his first opportunity to lead 3-1, at 4-2 Edmund dropped serve to take us back to level terms. After holding his next service game Edmund then broke to love to take the set and level the match.

Into set three and Edmund had the perfect start breaking in the 2nd game of the set.  At 4-2 Edmund was broken back after a very long game that involved three deuces and two breakpoints.  However, Edmund broke back the very next game on his 2nd break point opportunity in a long game involving five deuces, Edmund then served out for the set to go to within 1 set of his first ever first round match at a Grand Slam. The 4th set was a very tight affair as Edmund lost serve to go 0-2 down, he broke back again at 1-3 to get the match back on serve, but dropped serve immediately and then recovered it straight back again, some very tight games followed and it looked to be heading for a tiebreak at 5-6, however, Robert broke to 15 and sealed the 4th set. 

Edmund went for a toilet break at this point, and when he returned the French crowd started booing him. He was soon silencing the crowd as he broke immediately to 15 and then held a very tight game. He achieved the double break the very next game, which had by now silenced the very racous French supporters, who cheered wildly every time Robert got a point. The crowd were going wild as Robert got one of the breaks back on his second opportunity to bring the score to 4-2, however Edmund was having non of this and broke straight back, he would be serving for the match, Edmund saved two break points in this game and took the first match point he earned to book his place in round two.

On the WTA side there were only 2 matches with British interest, the first being with Heather Watson, British number one and world number 45. It took Watson a little to get going as she was broken in the very first game, before she immediately broke back in the next game on the first break point opportunity. At 2-2 Watson was broken again and looked to be going out of the first set at 2-4, at 3-4 Watson broke again on the 2nd opportunity in the game to bring it back on serve.  Watson then broke again to 15 to seal the first set 6-4, the second set was a bit of an odd affair as neither woman was able to hold serve in the first five games, and Watson looked to be going out of this set with the score sitting on 3-5 however, after a long game she held serve. In the very next game Watson saved set point on her opponents serve and then got the break to bring the scoreline back to 5-5. After a game where she held to love Watson then got the position of 2 match points on her opponents serve, she only needed one, and booked her place in round two and a match against Sloane Stephens.

The final match involved Johanna Konta who had come through qualifying without dropping a set. The first set was a very long affair and no one broke serve, in fact there were no break points at all in the first 12 games.  So a tiebreak it would be to settle the set, this turned out to be the longest tiebreak in Roland Garros history on either side, with Konta having 8 set points, and saving 5 before ultimately losing the tiebreak 17-19.  In the 2nd set and Konta was the first to convert break point chances, this occurred in game six, but Konta was immediately broken the next game which had four deuces. With the score standing at 5-4 Konta had five set points and converted on the 5th attempt to level the match and take it to a decider. In the final set Konta was the first to drop serve in the third game, although she had chances in the next game to break back Konta was unable to convert either of the chances she had. At 2-4 Konta was broken again but the games had all been very close at this point. In the next game Konta saved a match point to get back to deuce but was unable to save the next one and went out 6-7, 6-4, 2-6

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