PARIS(AP) Last year's finalist Dinara Safina has crashed out in the first round of the French Open.
The ninth-seeded Safina lost 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 to veteran Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan on Tuesday.
The 39-year-old Date Krumm, who came out of a 12-year retirement in 2008, became the second oldest woman to win a match in Roland Garros in the Open Era after Virginia Wade in 1985.
Date Krumm is playing at the clay-court Grand Slam for the first time since 1996.