World No.2 Elena Rybakina started her career at Roland Garros on Monday without a hitch, qualifying for the second round 6-2, 6-2, against Slovenian Veronika Erjavec (84th).
The double winner of Grand Slam tournaments (Wimbledon 2022 and Australian Open in January) now has a meeting with the Ukrainian Yuliia Starodubtseva (55th).
She joins four-time tournament winner Iga Swiatek (3rd), qualified earlier in the day, in the second round.
The defending champion Coco Gauff (4th) and the boss of the circuit Aryna Sabalenka (1st) will enter the running on Tuesday.
On a sun-drenched Philippe-Chatrier court with sparse stands, the Kazakhstani broke her opponent in the third game (2-1), before offering herself a double break to fly to victory in the first round in 39 minutes.
Erjavec, who was playing his first final draw at Roland Garros at the age of 26 and had never faced a member of the top 10 before, lost the next four games (6-2, 4-0).
After an hour and a quarter, the Slovenian admitted definitively defeated against the recent winner of the WTA 500 from Stuttgart, quarter-finalist in Paris in 2021 and 2024.
