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The biggest stars in tennis play on the famous clay at Roland Garros

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France's Benoit Paire returns the ball to Italy's Fabio Fognini during the men's first round of the 2015 French Tennis Open in Paris on May 25, 2015.KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP / Getty Images

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Germany's Angelique Kerber returns the ball to Hungary's Timea Babos during the women's first round of the 2015 French Tennis Open in Paris on May 25, 2015.KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP / Getty Images

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France's Gilles Simon returns a volley in the first round match of the French Open tennis tournament against compatriot Lucas Pouille at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Monday, May 25, 2015.Christophe Ena/The Associated Press

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Switzerland's Stefanie Vogele returns the ball to Russia's Vitalia Diatchenko during a women's first-round match.PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP / Getty Images

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Russia's Vitalia Diatchenko returns the ball to Switzerland's Stefanie Vogele.PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP / Getty Images

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Italy's Fabio Fognini returns the ball to France's Benoit Paire during the men's first round of the 2015 French Tennis Open in Paris on May 25, 2015.KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP / Getty Images

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Germany's Annika Beck returns the ball to Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska.DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP / Getty Images

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Razzano of France stretches for the ball in her women's singles match against Veronica Cepede Royg of Paraguay on Day 2 of the 2015 French Open at Roland Garros on May 25, 2015 in Paris.Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

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Lucas Pouille of France is reflected in the sunglasses of a spectator.Christophe Ena/The Associated Press

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Samantha Stosur of Australia in action during a women's singles match against Madison Brengle of the United States.Clive Mason/Getty Images

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Former tennis star John McEnroe sits in the stands at the 2015 French Open in Paris on May 25, 2015.MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP / Getty Images

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Gael Monfils of France plays a shot to compatriot Edouard-Roger Vasselin during their men's singles match.PASCAL ROSSIGNOL/Reuters

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Russia's Maria Sharapova in action during her first round match.Jason Cairnduff/Reuters

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Italy's Sara Errani returns the ball to Alison Riske of the U.S. during their first round match of the French Open.David Vincent/The Associated Press

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Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France plays a backhand in his men's singles match against Gael Monfils.Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

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Argentina's Diego Schwartzman returns the ball to Austria's Andreas Haider-Maurer.PASCAL GUYOT/AFP / Getty Images

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Victoria Azarenka of Belarus plays a shot to Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor of Spain.VINCENT KESSLER/Reuters

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General view at the Suzanne Lenglen court during the match between Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Gael Monfils.MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP / Getty Images

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France's Gael Monfils serves to France's Edouard Roger-Vasselin.MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP / Getty Images

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Andy Murray of Britain plays a shot to Facundo Arguello of Argentina during their men's singles match at the French Open.GONZALO FUENTES/Reuters

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