Roger Federer of Switzerland reacts during the men's singles first round match against Alejandro Falla of Colombia at Roland Garros, Paris, France on May 24, 2015. Roger Federer won 3-0 and advanced to the second round. (Xinhua/Chen Xiaowei)
World No. 2 Roger Federer dodged a selfie-seeking fan scare to win in straight sets at Roland Garros on Sunday, while China's best hope Peng Shuai suffered ailing retirement on the opening day of the French Open tennis tournament.
The 33-year-old Swiss was in full control against Colombia's Alejandro Falla, flapping off his 62nd consecutive appearance at a Grand Slam tournament with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory on Court Philippe Chatrier.
When he walked off, however, a boy managed to breach security and ran onto the court with attempt of taking a selfie with the No.2 seed, before security guards stepped in to usher the fan away.
"I'm not happy about it. Obviously not for one second that I'm happy about it. It happened yesterday in the practice, too," said Federer at the post-match press conference adding that organisers had apologized.
The 2009 champion was making his 17th appearance at Roland Garros, will next play Marcel Granollers after the Spaniard beat Matthias Bachinger of Germany, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7).
His eighth-seeded compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka was a 6-3 6-2 6-3 winner against Turkey's Marsel Ilhan.
Croatia's Ivo Karlovic has become the first seeded player to eixt from the day 1 French Open, beaten 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4 by Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus.
Japan's Kei Nishikori, sitting alongside with Federer in the bottom half of the draw, beat French wildcard Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 before local favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga rounded off proceedings against Swedish qualifier Christian Lindell with a 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 win.
On women's part, China's top female player Peng Shuai has become one of the biggest casualties of the French Open's opening day as the 24th seed managed just 33 minutes of play at Roland Garros on Sunday.
"Here's the end of my competitive action of the season," said Peng after her first-round exit.
The semifinalist of last year's U.S. Open was forced to retire with a back injury when trailing 6-0, 2-0 to Polona Hercog in the women's singles first round, granting the Slovenian a swift passage into the last 64.
"It's the same injury that has hunted me down since last year's Fed Cup," Peng told a post-match press conference.
Third-seeded Simona Halep, the losing women's French Open finalist last year, closed out a 7-5, 6-4 victory against Russian Evegenia Rodina with an ace.
She will next face Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, the Croatian player who knocked her out of the US Open last year.
The 28 million French Open continues with 56 men's and women's singles matches of the respective first round on schdule.
