There was little to separate the players in the first set on Court Suzanne Lenglen, with Gill breaking back immediately after dropping serve in the third game.<\/p>\n
But Jacquet opened up a 3-0 lead in the tie-break and Englishman Gill could not claw his way back as the Frenchman secured the opener to the delight of the home crowd.<\/p>\n
Jacquet carried his momentum into the second set and struck the decisive blow at 3-2 before serving out victory on his second match point four games later.<\/p>\n
Of the six British players in both singles draws, only Norrie is seeded.<\/p>\n
Norrie will open against Paraguay’s Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, while Fearnley faces Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo with the likely prospect of world number one Jannik Sinner waiting in round two.<\/p>\n
Samuel, meanwhile, will face Australia’s eighth seed Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n
Raducanu has been handed a tricky first-round test against Argentine clay-court specialist Solana Sierra as Boulter starts against American wildcard Akasha Urhobo, and 25-year-old Jones plays Brazil’s 2023 semi-finalist Beatriz Haddad Maia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was little to separate the players in the first set on Court Suzanne Lenglen, with Gill breaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-659205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}