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| Dates: 28 May-11 June Venue: Roland Garros, Paris |
| Coverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app |
Britain’s men’s doubles players had mixed fortunes at the French Open as Neal Skupksi reached the last eight but Joe Salisbury and Jamie Murray lost.
Skupski and Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof, the top seeds, beat Kazakh Aleksandr Nedovyesov and Mexican Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela 7-5 6-4.
But second seeds Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram lost 6-1 4-6 6-4 to Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni.
Murray and New Zealander Michael Venus also failed to make the quarter-finals.
The 13th seeds lost 6-2 6-2 to Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer.
Reaching the last eight equals Skupski’s best result at Roland Garros, while Koolfhof made the semi-finals in 2020.
Neither have won a men’s doubles Grand Slam title.
The British-Dutch pairing broke in the penultimate game of the match, which lasted eight minutes and proved to be crucial.
Salisbury and Ram, who have won the Australian and US Open together, were taken out by Argentine 14th seeds Gonzalez and Molteni in a match lasting more than two hours.
Murray and Venus struggled against Arevalo and Rojer, who received healthy crowd support on court six.
Murray has won the Australian and US Open titles in men’s doubles but has never made it past the quarter-final stage at Roland Garros.
The doubles world number 28 is still in the mixed doubles competition and will play his second-round match with American partner Townsend on Sunday.
If they win, they would face Lloyd Glasspool and his American partner Asia Muhammad in the quarter-finals. They defeated fifth seeds Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine and Australian Matthew Ebden 7-5 6-3.
Skupski could not make it two wins in one day as he and Mexican partner Giuliana Olmos lost 6-2 7-6 (9-7) to Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi and Dutchman Matwe Middelkoop in the second round of the mixed doubles.
By Adam Chowdhury
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