IT might only be the second day, but it was carnage at Roland Garros with four top 20 seeds bombing out, including two top eight seeds in a huge day of upsets. The biggest of the lot was fourth seed Daniil Medvedev, who faltered in his first match for the second consecutive tournament, losing to Hungarian Marton Fucsovics after going down to Frenchman Ugo Humbert at Hamburg.

Fuscovics won in four sets, 6-4 7-6 2-6 6-1 which was his second massive Round 1 win at a Grand Slam this year following his upset over Denis Shapovalov at the Australian Open in January. Medvedev hit 51 unforced errors and only 27 winners to Fucsovics’ 49 and 36 during the three-hour and 17-minute four-set match, as the Hungarian bounced back from a disappointing third set to post a huge career win.

Unfortunately for the fourth seed Russian, the Round of 128 loss paints an eerily similar story, having not won a match at Roland Garros in four starts. Fucsovics now takes on Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the second round after he defeated Adrian Mannarino in straight sets.

Medvedev was far from the only high-ranked casualty of the day, as eighth seed Gael Monfils fell victim to the in-form Alexander Bublik. The Kazakh won in four sets, 6-4 7-5 3-6 6-3 to move through to the second round, joining compatriot Mikhail Kukushkin in the Round of 64. Kukushkin had an equally impressive victory, downing 14th seed Fabio Fognini in four sets, running away with it in the end after clinching a third set tiebreaker, 7-5 3-6 7-6 6-0.

Other upsets on the day were Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka taking out Canadian young gun Felix Auger-Aliassime in straight sets, 7-5 6-3 6-3, whilst Serbian qualifier Nikola Milojevic won against his higher ranked compatriot Filip Krajinovic, 6-4 3-6 6-3 6-1. American Tennys Sandgren was the other player to knock out a seed on day two, defeating 29th seed Hubert Hurkacz in a massive 7-5 2-6 4-6 7-6 11-9 effort.

Successful seeds on the day included last year’s finalists Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem who breezed through, as well as Karen Khachanov, Pablo Carreno Busta and Casper Ruud who all favour the clay courts of Paris. If you thought the four-hour 31-minute epic between Sandgren and Hurkacz was long, spare a thought for Italian qualifier Lorenzo Giustino and Frenchman Corentin Moutet who competed in the second longest Roland Garros match ever.

Without the fifth set tiebreaker in play, Giustino and Moutet played 34 games in the final set, in a six-hour and five-minute contest that resulted in the former going through to the next round. Out on Court 14, neither player would give an inch and it was hard to believe the match could have gone even loner considering Moutet won the first set 6-0, before succumbing, 0-6 7-6 7-6 2-6 18-16.

The Frenchman hit 88 winers and 88 unforced errors and was unlucky not to win given the Italian hit a whopping 96 unforced errors to just 57 winners. In the end though, his ninth break of the contest proved crucial. In a tougher blow, Moutet won 25 more points than his opponent (242-217) but it would not be enough.

They might not have succeeded in Hamburg, but Germans Jan-Lennard Struff and Daniel Altmaier will face off in the second round after winning their respective first round matches. Struff defeated Frances Tiafoe, while Altmaier upset Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez. In other results, Alijaz Bedene, Lorenzo Sonego, Tommy Paul, Guido Pella, Pedro Martinez, Jiri Vesely, Daniel Elahi Galan, Mackenzie McDonald, Jack Sock and Hugo Gaston all advanced through to the Round of 64.

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