By Chris Oddo | Sunday May 22, 2016

One of the lucky few to have completed a match on Day 1 at Roland Garros was France’s Benoit Paire. It wasn’t easy, with the rain coming down and with Paire’s opponent, Moldava's Radu Albot giving the Frenchman all he could handle.

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But Paire would eventually survive 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, behind 65 winners and nine aces, in two hours and 59 minutes. Paire broke on all three of his break points in the fifth set to finish off a back-and-forth encounter that featured 19 breaks of serve.

The 19th-seeded Frenchman, who has never been beyond the third round at Roland Garros, will take on Teymuraz Gabashvili in the second round. Gabashvili pounded past American Donald Young, 7-6(1) 6-2 6-3, in one of the five completed matches on the men’s side on Sunday.

Other winners were Nick Kyrgios, Igor Sijsling and Andrey Kuznetsov.