Pospisil/Sock March On At Roland Garros

Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock are off to a good start at Roland Garros, prevailing 6-1, 7-5 against Thomaz Bellucci and Martin Klizan on Thursday. The seventh seeds swept the last five games of the first set and got the late break in the second set. Pospisil/Sock saved all four break points faced in the 80-minute encounter. In the second round, they will face 2014 champions Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

Other seeded teams also enjoyed success in their opening matches. Second seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau beat Guido Pella and Horacio Zeballos 6-4, 6-4. The Dutch/Romanian duo held 14 break points, converting two. They move on to face 2008 champion (w/ Horna) Pablo Cuevas and 2014 finalist (w/ M. Lopez) Marcel Granollers.

Third seeds and defending champions Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo dismissed Robin Haase and Viktor Troicki 6-0, 6-3 without facing a break point. Dodig/Melo raced out to a 6-0, 3-0 lead before serving out the match in 42 minutes. Their second-round opponents will be Frenchmen Tristan Lamasine and Albano Olivetti.

Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares eased past Russians Evgeny Donskoy and Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3, 6-3 in the first round. Murray/Soares went three-for-three on break points to set up a meeting with French wild cards David Guez and Vincent Millot.

Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan defeated Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Santiago Gonzalez 6-2, 6-3 in the first round. The fifth seeds captured the Roland Garros title in 2003 and 2013, and were runners-up on four occasions. Last year, they lost the final to Dodig/Melo.