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Tennis. French Open: Karolina Pliskova overcomes Mayar Sherif in opening round

2017 French Open semifinalist and this year’s second seed, Karolina Pliskova, prevailed in a historic opening-round encounter against the qualifier from Egypt, Mayar Sherif, who was in her Grand Slam debut, the Czech coming back from a first-set meltdown to sail through to the second round here in Paris.