First round singles action continues on Monday in Paris.
Monday sees two of the top three seeds in women’s singles play their first round matches: four-time champion Iga Swiatek, and reigning Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina. Plus, two of the ATP’s most tenured and most popular competitors, who are both retiring this year, play would could be their last-ever match at Roland Garros: 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka, and 2008 semifinalist Gael Monfils.
Here’s a rundown of the most notable matches on Day 2 (in chronological order, all times local):
Emerson Jones (WC) vs. Iga Swiatek (3) – 12:00pm on Court Philippe-Chatrier
Swiatek won this title in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024, but her 2024 triumph remains her last clay court title, as it’s now been two full years since Iga has prevailed on this surface. This season, she is an extremely modest 18-9 by her high standard, and just 6-3 on clay. But Swiatek is coming off a semifinal run a week ago in Rome, as she looks to regain her form of yesteryear under the guidance of her new coach Francisco Roig, who helped guide Rafael Nadal to unprecedented glory at this event.
Jones is a 17-year-old Australian wild card ranked 136th in the world. She is making her Roland Garros debut, and is also playing her first-ever professional match on a clay court.
Elina Svitolina (7) vs. Anna Bondar – Second on Court Suzanne-Lenglen
Svitolina is the player who defeated Swiatek in the Rome semifinals last week, before going on to win that tournament for a third time, her first WTA 1000 title in eight years. The 31-year-old is enjoying an excellent season, with a record of 29-7. But Elina will need to overcome some serious scar tissue in order to contend for this title, as the five-time quarterfinalist is 0-5 in that round.
This will surprisingly be the fifth clash between these two players within the last year, and each have taken two of those encounters. They played at the last three Majors of 2025, with Svitolina prevailing both here and at Wimbledon, and Bondar prevailing in New York, before Bondar won again just last month in Madrid. But the 28-year-old Hungarian is only 16-13 on the year, and is 1-3 lifetime at Roland Garros.
Stan Wawrinka vs. Jesper de Jong (LL) – Second on Court Simonnne-Mathieu
This will be a 21st and final appearance at this event for Wawrinka, who won it 11 years ago, and reached another final two years thereafter. But within the last four years, the now 41-year-old has won just two matches here. Stan has also only won 10 tour-level matches across the past 52 weeks, though he did advance to the third round of January’s Australian Open with a few gritty victories.
De Jong is a 25-year-old lucky loser who has advanced to the second round of this tournament in each of the past two years. He also reached his first-ever ATP final last summer on the clay of Bastad. However, Jesper is 1-8 this year at tour level.
Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Rafael Jodar (27) – Second Court 12
Jodar has been the breakout star of this clay court season, with a record of 15-3. The 19-year-old won the title in Marrakech, made the semis in Barcelona, and made the quarters in both Madrid and Rome. Now the big-hitting Spaniard makes his Roland Garros debut, after making his Major debut this past January in Melbourne, where he came through qualifying and advanced to the second round.
Kovacevic is a 27-year-old American who reached the semifinals of Hamburg this past week, with an upset over Felix Auger-Aliassime. However, he is 0-3 in the main draw of Roland Garros, and 1-9 lifetime in the main draw across all Majors.
Veronika Erjavec vs. Elena Rybakina (2) – Second on Court Philippe-Chatrier
Rybakina is a strong 30-7 on the year, though after winning a clay court title in Stuttgart, she made rather early exits in both Madrid and Rome. She is a two-time quarterfinalist in Paris, but she is yet to advance farther.
Erjavec is a 26-year-old from Slovenia making her Roland Garros main draw debut. As per Tennis Abstract, she has accumulated 47 match wins within the last year (including qualifying), though almost all of those wins have come below tour level. However, many of them have come on clay, and she’s reached four clay court finals at lower-level events since last July.
Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah (WC) vs. Amanda Anisimova (6) – Third on Court Suzanne-Lenglen
Anisimova was the runner-up at two of the last three Majors, and she was a semifinalist here back in 2019 as a teenager. However, a wrist injury has prevented her from playing since Miami, making this her first clay court match of the season. Before the injury, Amanda went 11-6 during 2026, with all 17 matches on hard courts.
Rakotomanga Rajaonah is a 20-year-old French wild card ranked 155th in the world. She was a surprise champion last September in Sao Paulo, where she won her first WTA title. But she’s a dismal 1-11 this year at all levels.
Hugo Gaston (WC) vs. Gael Monfils (WC) – Not Before 8:15pm on Court Philippe-Chatrier
Monfils is just 3-6 during 2026, and he hasn’t won back-to-back matches since March of 2025. The 39-year-old has battled multiple injuries across the last several years, certainly a big factor to deciding to make this his last year on tour. The 2008 semifinalist also achieved three other quarterfinals at his home Slam, which staged a special tribute to him last week ahead of his 19th appearance at Roland Garros.
Gaston is a 25-year-old fellow Frenchman who famously advanced to the second week here six years ago, when he upset Stan Wawrinka and pushed Dominic Thiem to five sets. But Hugo is 0-4 this year at ATP events, and has never returned to the second week of a Major.
Monday’s full Order of Play is here.
