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Rain washes out Day 1 at Roland Garros after just 10 completed matches

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Welp, after a four-month wait for Grand Slam tennis to finally return, the first day of main-draw action at the 2016 French Open was decidedly anticlimactic.

Play was officially canceled Sunday due to persistent rain, with only 10 of a scheduled 32 matches being played to completion. The remaining matches have been rescheduled for Monday, setting up a frantic, action-packed Day 2 at Roland Garros.

The 10 completed matches played out largely as expected, with all the seeds in action advancing.

Women's No. 10 Petra Kvitova came closest to defeat, going down 5-4 in the third set against 59th-ranked Danka Kovinic before reeling off three straight games to keep her tournament alive. No. 11 Lucie Safarova and No. 24 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova scored the most decisive wins of the day, demolishing Vitalia Diatchenko and Sara Sorribes Tormo, respectively, by mirror-image scorelines of 6-0, 6-2 and 6-2, 6-0.

On the men's side, No. 17 Nick Kyrgios overcame some frustration with chair umpire Carlos Ramos to dispatch Marco Cecchinato in straights, while No. 19 Benoit Paire needed five sets to overcome Moldovan qualifier Radu Albot.

Several in-progress matches were left hanging, including four that had gone to deciding sets. Most notably, men's No. 23 seed (and popular dark-horse pick) Jack Sock let a two-set lead slip away against Robin Haase, and women's No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova rebounded from a lackluster first set against Russian compatriot Yaroslava Shvedova, taking the second with a breadstick and going up a break in the third.

The forecast for Monday doesn't look much sunnier, with more than a 50 percent chance of rain. That means this first round, despite being spread out over three days on the schedule, could get thoroughly logjammed.

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