Nishesh Basavareddy made french open day one upsets the day’s sharpest result by knocking out Taylor Fritz 7-6, 7-6, 6-7, 6-1 at Roland Garros in Paris. The win sent Basavareddy into the second round and ended Fritz’s first-round run as the No. 7 seed.
Basavareddy Takes The First Two
The first two sets turned on tiebreaks, and Basavareddy handled both. He edged them 7-6 and 7-6, forcing Fritz into a long climb before the match ever settled into a rhythm.
That left Fritz chasing from behind after nearly two hours of tight tennis. He pushed back in the third set and took it 6-7, but Basavareddy closed the door with a 6-1 fourth set to finish the upset in four sets.
Fritz Falls At Roland Garros
The loss was a sharp break from Fritz’s seed line and the bracket path that came with it. Basavareddy’s victory was only his second main-draw singles win, which makes the scale of the result even larger than the scoreline alone.
It also carried a longer American marker. Basavareddy became the first American man to beat a top-10 opponent at Roland Garros since 2000, a run that had stretched across more than two decades.
For Fritz, the exit leaves Roland Garros with one of the day’s most notable early departures. For Basavareddy, it creates a far different next match: another round, another chance, and now a result that already sits apart from the rest of the opening day field.
Djokovic, Baptiste, Andreeva Advance
Basavareddy’s win was part of a busy opening day that also saw Novak Djokovic beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 5-7, 7-5, 6-0, 6-4. Hailey Baptiste moved through after saving two match points against Barbora Krejčíková, while Mirra Andreeva advanced with a straight-sets win over French wild card Fiona Ferro.
Lorenzo Sonego added another long match by beating Pierre-Hugues Herbert 7-5, 5-7, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4. That result came in one of three five-set matches on Day 1, a sign that the opening round at Roland Garros already had more than one player surviving the distance.
