Hello and welcome to coverage of the French Open as Daniel Evans gets his campaign underway against Holger Rune.
This is the first meeting between the two players and both come into the match looking for form and confidence.
Evans has failed to progress past the first round in his past five ATP Tour level tournaments and recently moved down to the Challenger Tour to gain confidence. But he was defeated in the quarter-finals by 19-year-old Shang Juncheng from China.
Earlier this month, Evans split from coach Sebastian Prieto for the second time after a rift in their relationship.
Rune remains one of the best young talents on the ATP Tour, but has also struggled with results and consistency this year.
With Andy Murray, Jack Draper and Cameron Norrie already in place, there will be hope in the LTA that at least one British man will make it into the first round. Evans is the last hope, and on the women's side the last hope is Katie Boulter, who faces Paula Badosa later in the evening. Two bad results and it would mean all British singles interest is over before the first Tuesday is over.
Elsewhere today, fourth seed Elena Rybakina defeated Belgium's Greet Minnen 6-2 6-3 and overcame a late battle to advance to the second round. Australian Open finalist Zheng Qinwen defeated crowd favorite Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-1 in the Frenchwoman's twentieth and final appearance at Roland Garros.
It was a good day for second seed Aryna Sabalenka, who entered the second round thanks to her 6-1, 6-2 demolition job over Erika Andreeva. The highly rated Russian teenager will have to thank experience for this defeat, she simply had no answer to the Belarusian this afternoon.
Norwegian seventh seed Casper Ruud, runner-up at the French Open for the past two years, defeated Brazilian qualifier Felipe Alves 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 to reach the second round.
And last year's quarter-finalist Tomas Etcheverry defeated Frenchman Arthur Cazaux 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4.