FRENCH OPEN
Venue: Roland Garros Date: 24 May - 7 June
Coverage: Live on BBC Red Button, live streaming and daily text commentary on BBC Sport website, updates on BBC Radio 5 Live plus second week commentary on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra. TV coverage on Eurosport.
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Murray was beaten by Spain's Nicolas Almagro in round three last year
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British number one Andy Murray will face Argentine Juan Ignacio Chela in the first round of the French Open at Roland Garros on Sunday.
Murray, 22, is scheduled fourth on the Suzanne Lenglen Court with play in the first match set to start at 1000 BST.
Reigning champion Ana Ivanovic, seeded eighth, opens play on the Philippe Chatrier court against Sara Errani.
Anne Keothavong, who will face world number one Dinara Safina, is not in action until Monday or Tuesday.
Fellow Briton Melanie South will also have to wait until after Sunday for her first-round tie with Portuguese qualifier Michelle Larcher De Brito.
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Murray has never progressed past the third round in Paris and admits making the second week would be a "good starting point".
The Scot could potentially meet Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals but he remains cautious.
"It's different here, there's not as much expectation," he said.
"But I feel if I play well, I've got a very good chance of doing well.
"On grass and hard courts, I can come through matches when I'm not necessarily playing my best.
"On clay, I feel like I have to play tough tennis from the start and play some of my best to win all the matches."
Should Murray defeat Chela, he would face Germany's Mischa Zverev or Italy's Potito Starace and then a possible match-up with Spain's Feliciano Lopez.
Other leading players in action on the first day are seventh-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon, who takes on American Wayne Odesnik, while eighth seed Fernando Verdasco is up against France's Florent Serra.
Scheduled third on Court One is 2004 French Open winner Gaston Gaudio where the unseeded Argentine will face 18th seed Radek Stepanek.
The French Open's top seeds will all have to wait until after Sunday to open their Roland Garros campaigns with Rafael Nadal, bidding for a fifth French Open title, up against Brazilian qualifier Marcos Daniel.
World numbers two and four Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic - on the other side of the draw - face Spain's Alberto Martin and Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti respectively.
In the women's draw second-seed Serena Williams is scheduled to face Czech Klara Zakopalova after Sunday.
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