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Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - May 25, 2025 Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez in action during her first round match against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina REUTERS/Lisi Niesner Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - May 25, 2025 Ukraine's Elina Svitolina in action during her first round match against Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez REUTERS/Lisi Niesner PARIS - Highlights of the first day at the French Open on Sunday (times GMT): 0910 PLAY UNDERWAY Play began under cloudy skies with the temperature at Roland Garros hovering around 17 degrees Celsius. Showers and a thunderstorm are forecast early in the day. In the women's singles first round, Ukrainian 13th seed Elina Svitolina opens her campaign against Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez on Court Suzanne-Lenglen. Aryna Sabalenka will begin her bid for a first crown at Roland Garros when she meets Russian Kamilla Rakhimova on Court Philippe-Chatrier. SUNDAY'S ORDER OF PLAY ON MAIN SHOWCOURTS (prefix number denotes seeding) COURT PHILIPPE-CHATRIER (play begins at 1000 GMT) 1-Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) v Kamilla Rakhimova (Russia) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) v 8-Zheng Qinwen (China) 8-Lorenzo Musetti (Italy) v Yannick Hanfmann (Germany) Not before 2015 GMT 13-Ben Shelton (United States) v Lorenzo Sonego (Italy) COURT SUZANNE-LENGLEN (play begins at 0900 GMT) Zeynep Sonmez (Turkey) v 13-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 31-Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (France) v Zizou Bergs(Belgium) 15-Frances Tiafoe (United States) v Roman Safiullin (Russia) 4-Jasmine Paolini (Italy) v Yuan Yue (China) COURT SIMONNE-MATHIEU (play begins at 0900 GMT) Elmer Moller (Denmark) v 12-Tommy Paul (United States) 11-Diana Shnaider (Russia) v Anastasiya Soboleva (Ukraine) 18-Donna Vekic (Croatia) v Anna Blinkova (Russia) 21-Tomas Machac (Czech Republic) v Quentin Halys (France) READ MORE: Sabalenka launches French Open campaign, Musetti aims high Alcaraz, Sinner rivalry takes centre stage in French Open's post-Nadal era Raducanu overcomes fear of needles to manage back injury ahead of French Open Britain's Draper a big threat at French Open, says McEnroe Djokovic beats Hurkacz to win 100th title at Geneva Open Holder Swiatek faces tough challenge to French Open dominance Sinner drawn in packed top half at French Open Nadal enjoying pain-free life as French Open looms REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.