French Open

Dennis Novak advances to the second qualifying round

Four out of six Austrian players have made it through the first qualifying round of the French Open.

After Dominic Thiem, Filip Misolic and Sinja Kraus had advanced the day before, only Dennis Novak followed suit on Tuesday with a 6:4, 6:2 win over Spain's Oriol Roca Batalla.

Yuriy Rodionov lost to Daniel Rincon of Spain in three sets 6:2, 5:7, 2:6, Lukas Neumayer to Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 2:6, 3:6.

Thiem against Virtanen
Three qualifying rounds are required to advance to the main draw. Thiem (ATP-131st) will face Finland's Otto Virtanen (156th) on Wednesday at Roland Garros on his farewell tour.