French Open • Aryna Sabalenka • Ana Konjuh • Tennis • Naomi Osaka • Women's Tennis Association • Ashleigh Barty

French Open • Aryna Sabalenka • Ana Konjuh • Tennis • Naomi Osaka • Women's Tennis Association • Ashleigh Barty

French Open • Aryna Sabalenka • Ana Konjuh • Tennis • Naomi Osaka • Women's Tennis Association • Ashleigh Barty

 It should be a packed day of action on day one at the French Open, with 20 first-round matches on the schedule in Paris. As ever, we here at LWOT will be offering our predictions for every match on the slate, including Naomi Osaka vs Patricia Maria Tig, Amanda Anisimova vs Veronika Kudermetova, Victoria Azarenka vs Svetlana Kuznetsova and Greet Minnen vs Petra Kvitova. Offering their predictions for this group of matches are Jim Smith and Andrew Watson. But who will advance?

French Open Day 1 Predictions

Anhelina Kalinina vs Angelique Kerber

Jim: It is hard to understand quite how things have gone so wrong for Angelique Kerber, with the former-world #1 looking like a shadow of the player who won three Grand Slam titles. She also has a less than impressive recent record at Roland Garros, having lost in the first round in four of the last five years. Up against a player who should be match sharp after coming through the qualifier, expect it to be another trip to Paris to forget for the German.”

Andrew: Though the German hero is drawing nearer to retirement she has won four of her last five initially round matches and I don't figure she will need to leave ahead of schedule from Paris. She actually has great development and her left-gave game will cause her lower positioned rival a couple of issue

nastasia Pavlyuchenkova versus Christina McHale 

Jim: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was presumably harshly disillusioned by the manner in which her mission in Madrid finished, with the Russian unmistakably hampered by injury in her straight-sets elimination round rout. In any case, she has a decent opportunity to bob back from that dissatisfaction here facing McHale, who has dominated only one game at the French Open since arriving at the third round in 2012. 

Forecast: Pavlyuchenkova in 2 

Andrew: The Russian is consistently somebody who is hard to foresee. What I can say is that this match will be settled on her racket. In the event that she can keep the champs to unforced blunders proportion positive or near and, after its all said and done she will win. I have confidence in Pavlyuchenkova to do what's necessary here to get past.