French Open exit for Haas

Tommy Haas, the 16th seed was forced to retire with a shoulder injury while 5-2 up in the first set against 335th-ranked Jurgen Zopp of Estonia. The 36-year-old German had been trying to become the oldest man since American Jimmy Connors in 1991 to reach the second round.

Haas reached the quarterfinals at last year's French Open. He is a four-time Grand Slam semifinalist and reached a career-best ranking of No. 2 in 2002, before surgery on his right shoulder hampered his career.

Asked after the match how much longer he would continue playing with the injury Haas replied: "If it continues to go on like this, who knows? It's a tough task to continue and to see doctors every other week to try to just be able to play a tournament here or there or finish a tournament or finish matches now."

Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Spain's Pere Riba 7-5, 6-4, 6-1 and Jan-Lennard Struff beat France's Albano Olivetti 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

The shock of the day came as former champion Li Na of China went down in three sets to France's Kristina Mladenovic 7-5, 3-6, 6-1. Li Na made 35 unforced errors and said after the match: "It didn't matter who played against me today, I'd always lose because I don't think she had a lot of pressure from me. I think I just gave away the match."

But 103rd-ranked Mladenovic saw the match in different terms: "I don't have the words to describe what just happened," she said. "To beat the world number two in the first round at Roland Garros, it's incredible. Without the crowd, I could not have done it."

Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki lost 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-2 to Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer.

The oldest woman in the draw, Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan lost 6-3 0-6 6-2 to 24th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia. The 43-year-old Krumm won the second set 6-0 in 22 minutes.

jm/jr (AP, AFP)