Gusty winds and half-empty stands gave no sense of the usual Parisian glamour as last year's French Open runner-up Samantha Stosur began with an easy win on Sunday and Lleyton Hewitt pulled out injured.
Stosur shook off the effects of a virus to beat Czech Iveta Benesova 6-2 6-3 on a sun-bathed, yet windswept court Philippe Chatrier.
"The conditions weren't always so easy with some gusts of wind and whatever else, but, yeah, overall, very happy," said Stosur, who noticed with a smile that there "weren't quite as many people this time".
Image: Australia's Samantha Stosur returns the ball to Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova during their first round match for the French Open tennis tennis tournament, at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday, May, 22, 2011.
Text: Reuters
Images: AP
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