Naomi Osaka versus Amanda Anisimova would've lit up any Grand Slam draw in the business end of a championship. That they were drawn to play in the first-round of the French Open has as much to do with the staggering depth of the women's field as with the inconsistencies of form.
A little after Anisimova, the 27th seed, pulled off her second successive win over the 24-year-old four-time major winner, coming through 7-5, 6-4 in 90 minutes, Krejcikova took the Philippe Chatrier court against the unheralded Diane Parry in what appeared to be that precise place where a defending champion would want to kick start her campaign. Except that the 19-year-old had a Boulogne-Billancourt postcode.
