Federer returns on opening day at Roland Garros


  • Tennis
  • Sunday, 26 May 2019

Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - May 25, 2019 Switzerland's Roger Federer attends a training session on the eve of the start of the tournament REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

PARIS (Reuters) - Roger Federer tops the bill at the French Open on opening Sunday when he makes his long-awaited return to the Parisian clay with a first-round match against Italian Lorenzo Sonego.

The 37-year-old Swiss, whose one Roland Garros title came 10 years ago, has been absent from the claycourt Grand Slam since 2015 and says he has missed it.

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