CRI听力:Simona Halep out of French Open

Chinese star Zheng Jie partnered with Fin Henri Kontine to defeat French wild card Clothilde de Bernardi and Maxime Hamou 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday in a first round match of mixed doubles.

It is the first victory from a Chinese player at this year's French Open as Peng Shuai and three others were eliminated after the first round of women's singles.

China's Xu Yifan claimed a 5-7, 7-6, 6-4 victory alongside Zarina Diyas from Kazakhstan in women's doubles.

Zheng Saisai and her partner American Varvara Lepchenko won in straight sets 7-6, 7-5.

On the women's singles action, third-seeded Simona Halep became the highest seeded player to exit the French Open so far as last year's runner-up lost 7-5, 6-1 to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in the second round.

The 23-year-old said she would accept the loss as it was.

"Maybe I had pressure, as well, but, you know, I feel more relaxed now than before the match. So this is a good point, because now I relax myself and I can smile, look forward to go to the next tournament. I have nothing to do now. Everything is lost here."

It is Halep's second-straight loss to Lucic-Baroni, the first being at last year's US Open.