Roland Garros 2012 Live: Tsonga, Del Potro, Venus, Ivanovic in Action

The first day of live tennis action at this year's second Grand Slam starts on Sunday May 27 with plenty of big names seeing action in the show courts of Roland Garros. The favorites may not yet be on court, but several ATP and WTA stars take to court hoping to get past their first hurdle and start their French Open 2012 campaigns in the right track. A couple of former finalists in women's singles and a couple of men's seeded challengers are up in action at Court Philippe Chatrier. Women's no. 6-seed Samantha Stosur and un-seeded Venus Williams, both former French Open finalists, start and end the action in the main court. Sandwiched in between are matches featuring no. 9-seed Juan Martin del Potro and top Frenchman and world no. 5 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

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In the other show court at Court Suzanne Lenglen, three former French Open champions are featured along with a former top-ranked American. Svetalana Kuznetsova, the 2009 women's singles champion, start her first round match against a former teen phenom Mirjana Lucic of Croatia. That match is followed by 2003 champion Juan Carlos Ferrero against a French hopeful in Jonathan Dasnieres De Veigy. Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 champion takes to court afterwards with a match-up against Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino of Spain. The last match in the second show features former world no. 1 and no. 26-seed American Andy Roddick going against unseeded Nicolas Mahut of France.

In the outside courts, the following matches are noteworthy: Angelique Kerber of Germany, a talented up-and-coming player who just crashed the top 10 recently also starts her French Open with a first round clash against Shuai Zhang of China in Court 1. After that match on the same court, no. 14-seed Fernando Verdasco of Spain takes on Steve Darcis of Belgium. Verdasco was the only player to have defeated Rafael Nadal on clay this year preventing the Spaniard from the reaching the quarterfinals in the Madrid tennis tournament.

Roland Garros 2012 French Open - Schedule of Play - Day 1: Sunday, 27 May

Court Philippe Chatrier

11:00 AM Start
Women's Singles - 1st Round
Elena Baltacha(GBR) vs. Samantha Stosur(AUS)[6]

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Juan Martin Del Potro(ARG)[9] vs. Albert Montanes(ESP)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Andrey Kuznetsov(RUS) vs. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga(FRA)[5]

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Venus Williams(USA) vs. Paula Ormaechea(ARG)

Court Suzanne Lenglen

11:00 AM Start
Women's Singles - 1st Round
Mirjana Lucic(CRO) vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova(RUS)[26]

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Juan Carlos Ferrero(ESP) vs. Jonathan Dasnieres De Veigy(FRA)

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino(ESP) vs. Ana Ivanovic(SRB)[13]

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Nicolas Mahut(FRA) vs. Andy Roddick(USA)[26]

Court 1

11:00 AM Start
Men's Singles - 1st Round
Fabio Fognini(ITA) vs. Adrian Mannarino(FRA)

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Angelique Kerber(GER)[10] vs. Shuai Zhang(CHN)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Steve Darcis(BEL) vs. Fernando Verdasco(ESP)[14]

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Mathilde Johansson(FRA) vs. Anastasia Rodionova(AUS)

Court 2

11:00 AM Start
Women's Singles - 1st Round
Lucie Safarova(CZE)[20] vs. Anastasiya Yakimova(BLR)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Edouard Roger-Vasselin(FRA) vs. Vasek Pospisil(CAN)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Igor Sijsling(NED) vs. Gilles Muller(LUX)

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Caroline Garcia(FRA) vs. Dinah Pfizenmaier(GER)

Court 3

11:00 AM Start
Men's Singles - 1st Round
Daniel Munoz-De La Nava(ESP) vs. Marin Cilic(CRO)[21]

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Sara Errani(ITA)[21] vs. Casey Dellacqua(AUS)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Michael Berrer(GER) vs. Jurgen Melzer(AUT)[30]

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Anna Tatishvili(GEO) vs. Alexa Glatch(USA)

Court 6

11:00 AM Start
Women's Singles - 1st Round
Irina Falconi(USA) vs. Edina Gallovits-Hall(ROU)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe(GER) vs. Joao Souza(BRA)

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Stephanie Dubois(CAN) vs. Shahar Peer(ISR)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Kevin Anderson(RSA)[31] vs. Rui Machado(POR)

Court 7

11:00 AM Start
Women's Singles - 1st Round
Melanie Oudin(USA) vs. Johanna Larsson(SWE)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Flavio Cipolla(ITA) vs. Stanislas Wawrinka(SUI)[18]

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Filip Krajinovic(SRB) vs. Nicolas Devilder(FRA)

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Kai-Chen Chang(TPE) vs. Irena Pavlovic(FRA)

Court 17

11:00 AM Start
Women's Singles - 1st Round
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez(ESP) vs. Eva Birnerova(CZE)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Pablo Andujar(ESP) vs. Victor Hanescu(ROU)

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Heidi El Tabakh(CAN) vs. Aleksandra Wozniak(CAN)

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Karol Beck(SVK) vs. Lukasz Kubot(POL)

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