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PARIS – Marin Cilic became the prototypal planted contestant to be eliminated from the land Open, losing to Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo of Espana 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4 Sun in the prototypal round.

The 19th-seeded Cilic, who reached the ordinal ammo at the inhabitant Open, is a former top-10 player. But he had 67 voluntary errors in the correct and was busted fivesome times.

For Ramirez Hidalgo, it was exclusive his ordinal win in 15 Grand Slam tournaments. Besides achievement the ordinal ammo at the 2006 land Open, the European forfeited in the prototypal ammo in apiece of his another 13 appearances at the quaternary large tournaments on the tennis circuit.

"It's my large victory this season, that's for sure," the 33-year-old Ramirez Hidalgo said. "I would not feature this is the beginning of a new career, because I'm likewise older for this, but it's a category of relief."

Seventh-seeded David Ferrer had no much problems, onward to the ordinal ammo by defeating Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.

No. 14 Stanislas Wawrinka, No. 17 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France, No. 30 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Espana and No. 31 Sergiy Stakhovsky of country also advanced.

"I expected, like every year, the prototypal correct not to be likewise easy," said Wawrinka, who vex Augustin Gensse of author 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. "I was a taste slow. I took some instance before I got into the match. In the prototypal ammo it's never so easy."

On the women's side, Sam Stosur unsealed her effort to convey to the land Open test by fighting Iveta Benesova 6-2, 6-3 in the prototypal round.

Playing in the prototypal correct on Court Philippe Chatrier, the eighth-seeded inhabitant dropped her help in the inaugural mettlesome but then reeled soured quaternary straightforward games to verify the lead for good.

Stosur reached the test at Roland Garros terminal assemblage but forfeited to Francesca Schiavone. In 2009, Stosur reached the land Open semifinals.

"Obviously I intellection of terminal year's terminal match," Stosur said. "It was nice to get discover there again and, of course, if you can endeavor on any suite here you'd poverty to endeavor on that one."

Stosur incoming plays Simona Halep of Romania, who became the prototypal contestant to accomplish the ordinal ammo by fighting Alla Kudryavtseva of country 6-2, 6-1 on Court 17.

"I don't conceive I hit to needs prove anything. I conceive having prefabricated semis and a final, I conceive that category of proves that I hit been healthy to backwards it up and it wasn't a fluke the prototypal time," Stosur said. "Of instruction I'd love to go a lowercase taste further this year, but I conceive it's more just wanting to achieve that kinda than I hit to do it because of X, Y, and Z."

The prototypal planted women's contestant to lose was Shahar Peer. The 19th-seeded Asiatic forfeited to Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Espana 7-6 (4), 6-1.

In the test correct of the day, No. 18 Plavia Pennetta of Italy forfeited to American Varvara Lepchenko 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.

No. 10 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia, No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, No. 14 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia, No. 17 Julia Goerges of Germany, and No. 32 Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria all advanced.

"It's never easy, especially in the prototypal round," said Jankovic, who vex Alona Bondarenko of country 6-3, 6-1. "Today was a lowercase taste windy, so the ball was swirling around. But I just played the best I could in these category of circumstances and did my job."

Later, 2009 endorse Svetlana Kuznetsova was to grappling river Rybarikova.

The land Open is the exclusive digit of the quaternary Grand Slam tournaments to move on a Sunday, and there were 32 matches scheduled on eight courts.

Less than an distance before endeavor began, two-time Grand Slam endorse Lleyton Hewitt withdrew.

The Australian, who had been digit of exclusive fivesome men in the entertainer with a Grand Slam singles title, has not played since March because of foot surgery. He was replaced by Marc Gicquel, digit of nine land men playing Sunday.

Gicquel forfeited to Albert Montanes of Espana 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.

The quaternary remaining Grand Slam champions in the men's entertainer are five-time land Open endorse Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro.

Djokovic, Federer and Del Potro are expected to endeavor Monday, patch Nadal is scheduled to endeavor Tuesday.

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