French Open day three, fixtures and order of play: Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Ash Barty in action

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, the favourites in the men’s draw and women’s top seed Ashleigh Barty begin their campaign at the French Open on Tuesday.

Here’s the schedule and order of play for day three action in Paris where the favourites enter the field.

Seeds denoted in []. All matches start at 1100 hrs local time (1430 hrs IST) except ones on the main court (1200 hrs local time / 1530 hrs IST).

Court Philippe CHATRIER

1 WS 1st rd Oceane BABEL (FRA) vs Elina SVITOLINA (UKR)[5] followed by

2 WS 1st rd Ashleigh BARTY (AUS) [1] vs Bernarda PERA (USA) followed by

(Not before 1600 hrs local time)

3 MS 1st rd Rafael NADAL (ESP) [3] vs Alexei POPYRIN (AUS) followed by

(Not before 2100 hrs local time)

4 MS 1st rd Novak DJOKOVIC (SRB) [1] vs Tennys SANDGREN (USA)

Court Suzanne LENGLEN

1 WS 1st rd En-Shuo LIANG (TPE) vs Fiona FERRO (FRA) followed by

2 MS 1st rd Albert RAMOS-VINOLAS (ESP) vs Gael MONFILS (FRA)[14]

3 MS 1st rd Hugo GASTON (FRA) vs Richard GASQUET (FRA)

4 WS 1st rd Karolina PLISKOVA (CZE) [9] vs Donna VEKIC (CRO)

Court Simonne MATHIEU

1 MS 1st rd Ricardas BERANKIS (LTU) vs Ugo HUMBERT (FRA)[29] followed by

2 WS 1st rd Anna Karolina SCHMIEDLOVA (SVK) vs Kristina MLADENOVIC…

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