Top seed Serena Williams made swift progress into round two of the French Open on day three but last year's semi-finalist Eugenie Bouchard was beaten.Williams, the champion at Roland Garros in 2002 and 2013, beat Czech Andrea Hlavackova 6-2 6-3.
But Canadian sixth seed Bouchard lost 6-4 6-4 to France's Kristina Mladenovic, the world number 44, her eighth defeat in nine matches.
Men's 10th seed Grigor Dimitrov lost 7-6 (9-7) 6-2 6-3 to American Jack Sock.
Men's title favourites Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal won in straight sets.Seventh seed David Ferrer saw off Lukas Lacko 6-1 6-3 6-1 to record the 300th clay-court win of his career, while women's fourth seed Petra Kvitova survived a scare before beating New Zealand's Marina Erakovic 6-4 3-6 6-4.Eugenie Bouchard was unable to explain the spectacular loss of form that has seen her win just three matches since reaching the Australian Open quarter-finals in January.
The 21-year-old now heads into the grass-court season knowing she has lots of ranking points to defend having reached last year's Wimbledon final.
"I feel like I have been trying to work on what's been going wrong, and I feel like I have been making progress, so to still have matches like this is actually disappointing," said the Canadian.
"But at the same time it's just a tennis match and, you know, I need to not worry too much. Life is still good. Everyone has highs and lows in their career. This is a little bit of a low point for me."
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