PARIS onitsuka tiger track españa , May 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Wang Qiang was eliminated by 10th-seeded Venus Williams 6-4, 7-6 (3) in the first round of 2017 French Open, while world No. 1 Angelique Kerber of Germany continued her lackluster performance on clay, losing to Russian Ekaterina Makarova 6-2, 6-2.
The 25-year-old Wang built a 4-2 lead in the first set asics onitsuka tiger track baratas , before the seven-time Grand Slam singles winner used her experience to seal the set at 6-4.
Trailing 3-5 and 15-40 in the ninth game, Williams put on another comeback to turn around at 6-5.
Wang forced a tiebreak, but still could not get the upper hand. Her poor backhand attack earned Williams a 7-3 victory in the tiebreak.
Williams showed her dominance with 37 winners against Wang's 15.
"She (Williams) is much more experienced than me, and she knows how to handle some crucial points well," said Wang onitsuka tiger tokuten españa , adding she would play better on clay next year.
Kerber, who only had a personal best record of a last 16 in this clay season, failed to withstand the strong forehand and backhand attacks from her opponent as she lost the first set 6-2 in 38 minutes.
Makarova nailed three games in a row in the second set, before Kerber broke in the fourth game in an unfamiliar manner. Leading 5-2 into her service, Makarova sealed the victory with a powerful forehand to deny Kerber's quest for the Suzanne Lenglen trophy.
Kerber blamed her bad movement on clay to her early exit in the tournament.
"On clay I'm not feeling so good especially on my movement. Normally I can move well asics onitsuka tiger tokuten baratas , but on clay, it's always different and difficult for me. I think that's the most important (for my loss)," she said.
Petra Kvitova celebrated her comeback from being sidelined for five months with a hand injury, beating Julia Boserup of the United States 6-3, 6-2.
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Elsewhere, men's seeded players Dominic Thiem and Grigor Dimitrov swept their opponents, while local favorite Lucas Pouille had to come back from 2-1 down to edge compatriot Julien Benneteau in full sets.
In women's singles, sixth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova and eighth-seded Svetlana Kuznetsova also eased into the second round.
Title favorites Garbine Muguruza, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will kick off their campaign at Roland Garros on Monday. China's top-ranked woman Zhang Shuai is set to meet Donna Vekic of Croatia.
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Group A
Liaoning 3 3 0 6 +33
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Three people go on trial in Luxembourg on Tuesday over the so-called LuxLeaks scandal that exposed the country's huge tax breaks for major international companies, with the issue riding high after the recent Panama Papers revelations.
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The LuxLeaks affair erupted in November 2014, exposing deals that saved firms including Apple (LSE: 0R2V.L - news) , IKEA and Pepsi billions of dollars in taxes while European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was Luxembourg's prime minister.
The deals emerged after a series of global news outlets examined 28,000 pages of documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) onitsuka tiger mexico 66 españa , revealing the full scale of the tax breaks won by 340 companies.
Former auditor Deltour is accused of stealing documents from the database of the accounting firm before he left in 2010, revealing business secrets, violation of professional secrets and money laundering.
The documents later became the basis of a story by Perrin on the state-owned France 2 TV station in 2012 but the story stayed under the international radar until the LuxLeaks document dump.
Perrin is charged with being an accomplice in all the offences, while Halet, accused of being behind a separate leak asics onitsuka tiger mexico 66 baratas , faces the same charges as Deltour. All three of the accused are French.
Tax campaigners are expected to demonstrate outside the court in Luxembourg on Tuesday at the start of the hearing. The trial is expected to last until May 4.
Despite facing between five and 10 years in prison, Deltour insists he has no regrets.
"At first I was just an anonymous source, and then I found myself at the front of the stage," Deltour told AFP at his home in eastern France on the eve of the trial.
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