French Open day 3: Five Tuesday tips from first round fixtures

Serena to win first set 6-1

Another multiple French Open champion takes to the court on Tuesday too, as women’s singles title holder Williams battles with Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova.

The duo have faced each other once before, with the 21 Grand Slam winning great coming out a 6-1 6-1 victor on that occasion in 2013. American Williams is 5/2 to take the opening set by that scoreline again.

Berdych to beat Pospisil 3-1

While Tomas Berdych is a consistent top 10 player, he has lost to first round challenger Vasek Pospisil both times they’ve played.

However, the Canadian has not won on clay in four attempts this year, meaning the Czech should be able to come through this clash. A 3-1 result in favour of Berdych is tempting at 11/4.

Robson to beat Petkovic

Britain’s Laura Robson may be ranked around 300 places below upcoming opponent Andrea Petkovic, but has slowly shown signs that she is back on course to regain her place among the elite.

With four wins to her name this clay court season, she is 11/2 to defeat Petkovic too, as the German has looked out of sorts on the surface in 2016.

Seppi to come through five setter

Andreas Seppi and Ernests Gulbis are very evenly matched, and both enjoy playing on clay having reached the fourth round and quarter-finals respectively in the past.

Latvia’s Gulbis has won four of their five meetings, but crucially lost their only encounter on this surface. This match looks like it’ll go the distance, and Seppi is 5/1 to come through it in five sets.

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