French Open 2015 Results: Monday Scores and Tuesday Bracket Predictions
The superstar lineup on display at the 2015 French Open continued to dazzle Monday, where the likes of Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and Gael Monfils were among the victors.
Murray overcame the challenge of Facundo Arguello to emerge with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 win, while No. 2 women's seed Maria Sharapova clinched a straight-sets victory over Kaia Kanepi in her first-round outing.
The loaded list of elite combatants on hand at Roland Garros means every day brings with it a new schedule of highly anticipated fixtures, and Day 3 will be no different in that regard.
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Read on for a full breakdown of Monday's scores and a look ahead to Tuesday's lineup, along with predictions of how some of the more notable matchups may proceed.
| Winner | Score | Loser |
| Juan Monaco | 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-1, 6-7(6), 6-2 | Federico Delbonis |
| Tomas Berdych | 6-0, 7-5, 6-3 | Yoshihito Nishioka |
| Martin Klizan | 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 | Francis Tiafoe |
| Benjamin Becker | 6-3, 6-7(5), 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 | Ruben Bemelmans |
| Radek Stepanek | 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 | Ivan Dodig |
| Fabio Fognini | 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 | Tatsuma Ito |
| Teymuraz Gabashvili | 6-3, 7-6(9), 6-3 | Feliciano Lopez |
| Sergiy Stakhovsky | 6-2, 7-5, 6-1 | Ricardas Berankis |
| Fernando Verdasco | 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 | Taro Daniel |
| Benoit Paire | 5-7, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 | Gastao Elias |
| Bernard Tomic | 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 | Luca Vanni |
| Dominic Thiem | 6-3, 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3 | Aljaz Bedene |
| Gilles Simon | 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 | Lucas Pouille |
| David Goffin | 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(3), 6-1 | Filip Krajinovic |
| Tommy Robredo | 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-3 | Andrey Golubev |
| Thomaz Bellucci | 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 | Marinko Matosevic |
| Santiago Giraldo | 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 | Donald Young |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis | 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-2 | Nikoloz Basilashvili |
| Nick Kyrgios | 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 | Denis Istomin |
| Borna Coric | 7-6(8), 6-3, 0-6, 6-3 | Sam Querrey |
| Gael Monfils | 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-1, 7-5 | Edouard Roger-Vasselin |
| Diego Schwartzman | 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(5) | Andreas Haider-Maurer |
| Simone Bolelli | 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 | Steve Darcis |
| Andy Murray | 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 | Facundo Arguello |
| Andrey Kuznetsov | 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 | Malek Jaziri |
| Jurgen Melzer | 7-6(5), 6-3, 7-6(4) | Adrian Mannarino |
| Viktor Troicki | 6-2, 6-1, 6-7(3), 6-1 | Jan-Lennard Struff |
| Kyle Edmund | 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 | Stephan Robert |
| Winner | Score | Loser |
| Alize Cornet | 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 | Roberta Vinci |
| Amandine Hesse | 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 | Jarmila Gajdosova |
| Paula Kania | 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 | Mona Barthel |
| Sabine Lisicki | 6-3, 6-2 | Monica Puig |
| Carla Suarez-Navarro | 6-2, 6-2 | Monica Niculescu |
| Ajla Tomljanovic | 6-2, 6-2 | Casey Dellacqua |
| Alexandra Dulgheru | 6-3, 6-1 | Nicole Gibbs |
| Elina Svitolina | 6-2, 6-2 | Yanina Wickmayer |
| Angelique Kerber | 6-0, 6-1 | Timea Babos |
| Virginie Razzano | 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 | Veronica Cepede Royg |
| Vitalia Diatchenko | 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 | Stefanie Vogele |
| Annika Beck | 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 | Agnieszka Radwanska |
| Samantha Stosur | 6-1, 6-3 | Madison Brengle |
| Daria Gavrilova | 6-1, 7-6(3) | Johanna Larsson |
| Yulia Putintseva | 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 | Aleksandra Krunic |
| Irina Camelia Begu | 6-4, 7-6(6) | Bethanie Mattek-Sands |
| Sara Errani | 7-6(1), 2-6, 6-0 | Alison Riske |
| Ana Konjuh | 6-1, 6-4 | Margarita Gasparyan |
| Victoria Azarenka | 6-2, 6-1 | Maria Teresa Torro-Flor |
| Maria Sharapova | 6-2, 6-4 | Kaia Kanepi |
| Heather Watson | 6-4, 7-5 | Mathilde Johansson |
| Lucie Hradecka | 6-3, 6-0 | Saisai Zheng |
| Carina Witthoeft | 6-3, 7-5 | Katerina Siniakova |
| Andreea Mitu | 6-3, 6-2 | Alize Lim |
| Tsvetana Pironkova | 7-6(5), 6-2 | Barbora Strycova |
| Karolina Pliskova | 7-6(4), 6-4 | Shuai Zhang |
| Sloane Stephens | 7-6(5), 6-1 | Venus Williams |
| Denisa Allertova | 7-6(17), 4-6, 6-2 | Johanna Konta |
Complete schedule at RolandGarros.com.
Notable Day 3 Predictions
Leonardo Mayer vs. Jiri Vesely
Seeded at No. 24 in the French Open rankings, Leonardo Mayer is far from the most prestigious name contending in the men's singles Tuesday, but that's part of what makes his meeting with Jiri Vesely so enticing.
The Argentine lost to Dominic Thiem in the final of last week's Open de Nice Cote d'Azur, and there's no guarantee this week's 21-year-old foe will be much of a step down in terms of quality.
At 6'6", Vesely even dwarfs the not-so insignificant frame of Mayer and will be hoping to take control of service matters from the beginning, one facet of the game in which he tends to excel.
Despite being so young in age, Vesely not so long ago joined an elite list of ATP players, according to tennis writer Chris Goldsmith:
One might look upon the Day 3 fixture as an unlikable one for both competitors, which in a way only makes the clash that much more enticing and the prize of a second-round place so much more valuable.
Following his fall at the hands of Thiem not even a week ago, Mayer may still be fighting for full mental preparedness, while a nothing-to-lose attitude could do the trick for his opponent.
Prediction: Vesely wins in four sets.
Eugenie Bouchard vs. Kristina Mladenovic
A clash of French speakers will see Montreal-born Eugenie Bouchard pitted against Kristina Mladenovic on Day 3, where the victor will claim the coveted reward of a place in the competition's second round.
Mladenovic may well feel upbeat regarding her chances against the out-of-form Bouchard, who has lost seven of her last eight matches, but the 21-year-old confessed to Mark Masters of TSN that she has "no expectations" for the week ahead:
"I feel, recently, I have done better on the practice court and it's slowly starting to translate onto the match court. It's not quite where I want it to be, of course, but I've taken steps in the right direction recently and, at the end of the day, all I really want to do is improve. Hopefully I can show that more on the match court and take one baby step at a time.
I'm expecting the crowd to be against me, which is fine. I like the challenge of that. I know that she can have some big weapons and some big shots and she'll probably be pretty energized with that crowd behind her. I'm just going to go out there and go for it.
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The home advantage Bouchard acknowledges will run in her opponent's favour may come to be a pivotal factor, perhaps gifting Mladenovic a useful edge for her first-round encounter.
Her WTA ranking of No. 44 may not be a tremendously daunting one, but Mladenovic did have a fruitful run in Strasbourg earlier this month, just losing out to Samantha Stosur in the final of that competition.
Should form count for anything, it may be the French native who seals her progress to the next round, but Bouchard's quality makes her capable of pulling something out of the bag.
Prediction: Bouchard win in three sets.
Novak Djokovic vs. Jarkko Nieminen
Tuesday finally brings the turn of Novak Djokovic to take to the stage of Roland Garros, where he'll begin his campaign to strip Rafael Nadal of his French Open title with a first-round match against Jarkko Nieminen.
On paper, it by all means looks like a mismatch of terrific proportions, but This Day In Tennis raised a French Open memory that will certainly give the Finnish underdog some hope:
That being said, a decade-old victory over Andre Agassi is of little use unless Nieminen can summon up the same indomitable courage that led him to clinch that result so many years ago.
Overcoming Djokovic's assault will be no easy task, and Djokovic even told France 24 that he's a superior athlete to the one of last year, spelling disaster for his first-round foe:
The pledge to live up to his billing as top seed is one Djokovic has undertaken so many times before now, and it's almost impossible to see the Serbian slipping up so prematurely.
Prediction: Djokovic wins in straight sets.
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