Serena Williams may be missing from this year's French Open, but big sister Venus is still going strong and marks her Roland Garros 20th anniversary on Sunday.
Three weeks shy of her 37th birthday, the American star, who made her debut in the French capital in 1997, kicks off her latest campaign against China's Wang Qiang.
Williams, seeded 10, has played every year since 1997 with the exception of 2011 and despite her veteran status, she is still a contender at the Slams as her run to the Australian Open final in January proved.
Her staggering longevity is illustrated by the fact that her potential second round opponent is compatriot Amanda Anisimova who, at just 15, is the youngest main draw competitor since 2005.
When Venus was losing the 2002 Roland Garros final to Serena, Anisimova was just nine months old.
"I'm here as I still have a lot to give. That just wraps it up," said Venus who has never got beyond the quarter-finals in Paris since her runners-up spot 15 years ago.
Anisimova, the Florida-based daughter of Russian parents, made the tournament courtesy of winning the US wild card play-off.
She faces Japan's world no 94 Kurumi Nara on Sunday.
"This will be my first main draw match at a major,
“I'm very excited and I can't wait to play already," she said.
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What's in a nameIJ For Tennys Sandgren, a sport and a career. And as of Sunday, the man called Tennys can say he's played at tennis's highest level.
Sandgren, a 25-year-old from Tennessee, made his debut in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, losing in the first round of the French Open 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan.
Sandgren's parents gave him his great-grandfather's first name.
"I don't think it was so much tennis related, but I think maybe a little bit. My parents liked the name. They wanted to keep it going," he said. "And I think I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be kind of named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport.
"I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me. I had to be at least decent, and I think I've at least fulfilled that," Sandgren continued. "So that's a good thing. I can at least say that I've fulfilled the name, at least somewhat."
As one might expect, he says he gets a lot of questions and comments about the name.
"People are kind of like, 'Whoa' - a little bit taken aback," he said.
During a recent dinner at a restaurant, Sandgren recounted, a couple at another table struck up a conversation and asked his name.
"And it's like, 'Uh, Tennys,'" he said. "And they're like: 'WhatIJ ReallyIJ'"
Sandgren, who is ranked 112th, got into the field at Roland Garros by earning a wild card from the U.S. Tennis Association based on results in lower-tier events.
The other USTA wild-card recipient, 15-year-old Amanda Anisimova of New Jersey, also made her Grand Slam debut Sunday.