French Open: US shocks as top-10 seeds Fritz and Navarro lose in first round

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French Open: US shocks as top-10 seeds Fritz and Navarro lose in first round

  • Navarro’s campaign at Roland-Garros lasts just 57 minutes

  • No 4 seed Fritz beaten in four sets by Daniel Altmaier

There were major upsets for two of the top American seeds at the French Open on Monday, as Taylor Fritz and Emma Navarro crashed out in the first round.

Taylor Fritz, the runner up at last year’s US Open, was eliminated 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 by world No 66 Daniel Altmaier of Germany. Altmaier broke the No 4 seed’s big serve five times on Court Simonne-Mathieu and ended the Californian’s 15-match grand slam winning streak against players ranked outside the top 50.

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