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Pablo Andújar charges Thiem and gives the first big surprise at Roland Garros

Heroic Pablo Andújar. The Spanish tennis player gave the first big surprise of Roland Garros after beating Dominic Thiem after making a Homeric match in which he came back two sets to one of the candidates for the title. All in almost five hours of play on a center court that witnessed the exhibition of the year by the 35-year-old tennis player born in Cuenca, everything heralded an idyllic victory for Thiem on the first day of Roland Garros after solving the first two sets 4- 6 and 5-7. Everything was going smoothly for the Austrian but there appeared the best version of the veteran Spanish tennis player who took the match to the fifth set after winning the next two sets (6-3 and 6-4). In the last and decisive set, the Cuenca tennis player showed that he was facing his big day of the year and sent a Thiem clearly surpassed by the Spanish to the canvas.In the rest of the matches of the first day of Roland Garros, Roberto Bautista won easily to Vilella (4-6, 4-6, 2-6) and Carreño did the same with Gombos (3-6, 4-6, 3-6). Badosa debuts with victory in Paris Paula Badosa has advanced to second round of Roland Garros after beating the American Lauren Davis (6-2, 7-6 (3)) this Sunday in her debut, and will seek to go ahead against the Montenegrin Danka Kovinic. Badosa, world number 34, did not suffer in a first set in which he dismantled the two break options of his rival and in which he signed two breaks that allowed him to end the set by winning the last four games. Already in the second heat, the contestants managed to break their opponent's serve on two occasions and everything had to be decided in the tie-break, where the Spanish threw the rest to seal her victory in one hour and 42 minutes of play.

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