Raphaël Collignonwhich disputed his first Grand Chelem meeting, had missed Roland-Garros after being injured in the right thumb in the Hamburg ATP 500 tournament. The 23 -year -old Liège had not played an official match for a month and a half.
The meeting lasted 1h48. Breaké at least once per round – and three times in the third -, Raphaël Collignon knew nothing to stop Marin Cilic. He offered the Croatian match on his ninth double fault. The two players had never faced each other in the past.
David Goffin He was beaten even more dry by the Australian Rinky Hijikata, after only 1h15 of play.
After a relatively disputed first set, the Liégeois completely disappeared from the radars by winning only two small games in the last two sleeves.
After two months of judgment following a tear at the Vault Plantaire contracted at the Masters 1000 ATP in Madrid, David Goffin therefore resumes the official competition with a heavy defeat.
The Liégeois knew his opponent of the day well for having already met him three times on the ATP circuit, twice this year.
In 2025, each player had won a meeting: Hijikata offered the Belgian to Adélaïde (Australia) in January (6-1, 6-2), before Goffin retreated a month later in Acapulco in Mexico (6-2, 6-3). With this victory, Hijikata equalizes two everywhere in total confrontations since David Goffin had won the first battle in 2024, during the Winston-Salem ATP 250 in the United States (6-1, 6-3).