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Nadal rallies advances at French Open
PARIS (AP) — Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal was in an unfamiliar position on Monday in the first round of the French Open.
He was trailing. Big-hitting Daniel Brands of Germany was swinging for the fences and hitting a lot of home runs.
But Nadal found his groove down 3-0 in the second-set tiebreak and then went on to a difficult 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 6-3 victory.
Nadal, who has lost only 15 sets at Roland Garros, runs his record here to 53-1. He’s 37-2 since returning in February after a seven-month layoff because of a left knee injury, reaching the finals at all eight previous tournaments he played this year and winning six.
Rafael Nadal of Spain fires a forehand.
Earlier, former French Open champion Li Na started fast to beat a nemesis.
The 2011 titlist raced to a 4-love lead after 20 minutes and defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3, 6-4 in the first round.
Seeded No. 6, Li came into the match 0-3 on clay against Medina Garrigues but broke serve six times and came forward aggressively, winning 13 of 16 points at the net.
No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Shahar Peer 6-1, 6-1 in 57 minutes. Radwanska, last year’s Wimbledon runner-up, played for the first time since withdrawing before last week’s Brussels tournament with a recurrence of the right shoulder injury that has bothered her the past couple of years. She’ll next play American Mallory Burdette, who won in her Roland Garros debut Sunday. Radwanska was asked what she knew about her second-round opponent.
Caroline Wozniacki earned her first win since the Family Circle Cup in April, rolling over Laura Robson of Britain 6-3, 6-2.
Nick Kyrgios, at 18 the youngest player in the men’s draw, made a successful Grand Slam debut by beating 34-year-old Radek Stepanek 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (13-11). Kyrgios won despite breaking serve only once.
No. 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Aljaz Bedene 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. No. 31 Marcel Granollers lost to Feliciano Lopez 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
A trio of Americans also advanced.
Varvara Lepchenko, seeded 29th, beat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-1, 6-2. Melanie Oudin topped No. 28 Tamira Paszek of Austria 6-4, 6-3. And Madison Keys routed Misaki Doi of Japan 6-3, 6-2.
No. 24 Julia Goerges lost to Zuzana Kucova 7-6 (10-8), 6-0.
Playing in sunny, mild weather on center court, Li had a point for a 5-2 lead in the second set but wavered briefly, and her double-fault on break point made it 4-all. She regrouped to break back, then quickly closed out the victory.
The 31-year-old Li is 22-6 this year and was runner-up to Victoria Azarenka at the Australian Open. She next plays American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who beat Lourdes Dominguez Lino 6-4, 6-1.
Li is one of six former champions in the women’s draw. Maria Sharapova, the 2012 winner, was among those to play late yesterday. No. 15 Roberta Vinci won in less than an hour, beating Stephanie Foretz Gacon 6-3, 6-0.
Radwanska won while committing only eight unforced errors. She has two titles this year but is just 2-2 on clay this spring and has never advanced beyond the fourth round at Roland Garros.
Her sister, Urszula, beat 30th-seeded Venus Williams in the final match Sunday, 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4.
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