Easy for Djokovic and Nadal, Murray suffers, Kerber out


  • Tennis
  • Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros - Novak Djokovic of Serbia vs Yen-Hsun Lu of Taiwan - Paris, France - 24/05/16. Novak Djokovic shakes hands after beating Yen-Hsun Lu. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

PARIS (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams barely got their shoes dusty at the French Open on Tuesday but two of the top five women's seeds went out and Andy Murray survived the first round by the skin of his teeth.

World number one Djokovic, back on the Philippe Chatrier Court where Stan Wawrinka snatched the title from his grasp a year ago when a career slam loomed, crushed Taiwan's Lu Yen-hsun 6-4 6-1 6-1.

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