Venus Williams suffered shock defeat in Women's Singles 1st round of French Open

On the opening day of the French Open tennis championships in Paris, former world number one Venus Williams suffered a shock defeat by Chinese player Wang Qiang in the Women's Singles first round in Paris yesterday.

The 37-year-old ninth seed was well short of her best as Wang the world number 91 claimed a 6-4, 7-5 victory and gained a measure of revenge for her first-round loss to Venus at Roland Garros last



year.

In Men's singles, fourth seed Grigor Dimitrov reached the second round by defeating Egyptian world number 182 Mohamed Safwat. Defending champion Rafael Nadal will start his campaign for an 11th Roland Garros title today. 

For India, Yuki Bhambri is the only player in the men's Singles while Rohan Bopanna will be figuring in Men's Doubles.