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Seventh seed Konta is first up on the main showcourt, which
tends to be virtually empty for morning matches, against
Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei as she bids to improve on her previous
pair of first-round exits in Paris.
Murray, who has been in poor form this season, faces Russian
world number 73 Andrey Kuznetsov on the same court but his
arrival will be delayed by another rising star, Germany's
Alexander Zverev.
The willowy ninth seed, who won the Rome Masters in the build-up
to the claycourt grand slam, is locked at one-set all with
Spaniard Fernando Verdasco and the pair will play to a finish
after their contest was halted on Monday evening.
British number two Kyle Edmund, ranked 49th in the world, is
also in first round action, taking on Portugal's Gastao Elias on
Court 14.
Meanwhile, 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka opens his campaign
against Slovakian Jozef Kovalik on Court Suzanne Lenglen, where
the crowd will be awaiting local favorite Gael Monfils.
Monfils, seeded 15th, faces German Dustin Brown in what promises
to be an exciting encounter between two of the ATP Tour's more
flamboyant players.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by John O'Brien)
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