Tennis

Rain delays start of play at French Open on Day 2

Published May. 23, 2016 6:26 a.m. ET

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PARIS (AP) Poor weather is playing havoc with the French Open schedule for the second consecutive day.

Showers over Paris on Monday have forced the organizers to delay the start of play by 1 1/2 hours after only 10 out of 32 matches were completed on Day 1.

Tuesday's forecast is grim but a break in the weather could allow matches to go ahead early in the afternoon.

Defending champion Stan Wawrinka is set to play Lukas Rosol on Court Philippe Chatrier, while Andy Murray will open his campaign at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament against Radek Stepanek, who qualified for the main draw at the age of 37.

In the women's draw, second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska is up against 120th-ranked Bojana Jovanovski.

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