Dates: 28 May-11 June Venue: Roland Garros, Paris |
Coverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app |
Britons Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury both progressed to the third round of the men’s doubles at the French Open.
Top seeds Skupski and Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof claimed a 6-4 6-2 victory over Argentine Pedro Cachin and China’s Wu Yibing.
Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram were on court for just 22 minutes before Spanish opponents Roberto Carballes Baena and Jaume Munar retired.
The second seeds were leading by a break of serve at 3-2 in the first set.
Skupski and Koolhof will play Kazakhstan’s Aleksandr Nedovyesov and Mexican Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela for a quarter-final place.
Next up for US Open champions Salisbury and Ram is a meeting with Argentine 14th seeds Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni.
Mixed fortunes in mixed doubles
Also on Friday at Roland Garros, two British-American pairs went head-to-head in the first round of the mixed doubles, with Briton Jamie Murray and American Taylor Townsend knocking out second seeds Salisbury and American Desirae Krawczyk.
The 2021 French Open winners lost 6-2 7-5 in a match played in good spirits between compatriots. Murray and Townsend play Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski and American Nathaniel Lammons in the next round.
Elsewhere, Briton Lloyd Glasspool and American Asia Muhammad beat French wildcards Estelle Cascino and Dan Added 6-3 6-4 in their mixed doubles first round match.
Glasspool and Muhammad face the fifth-seeded pairing of Ukrainian Lyudmyla Kichenok and Australian Matthew Ebden in the second round.