JAMES WARD, the British No.5, has lost his first-round qualifying match at the French Open.
Ward, who has been handed a wild card for the Aegon Championships at the Queen's Club later this summer, went down 6-4 6-3 to Matteo Donati on Tuesday.
Italy's Donati is ranked 99 places below Ward, 29, who has struggled for form this year.
Ward's compatriot Brydan Klein will face Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky in his first-round qualifier later on Tuesday.
Klein, who played immediately after Ward, also fell at the first hurdle following a 6-3 6-3 defeat against Stakhovsky.
Britain will still have seven players in Friday's main draw for the Roland Garros tournament which gets under way on May 23.
Andy Murray, Aljaz Bedene and Kyle Edmund will play in the men's singles, with Johanna Konta, Heather Watson, Naomi Broady and Laura Robson featuring for the women.
One woman who won't be participating in the ladies' competition is former world No.1 Caroline Wozniacki. The Dane has withdrawn from Roland Garros due to her ongoing struggles with an ankle injury.
Wozniacki pulled out of recent clay-court tournaments in Madrid and Rome as she battles to overcome a troublesome right ankle, which put her participation at Roland Garros in doubt.
And it was confirmed by the WTA that the Dane, who has never gone beyond the quarter-final stage in the French capital, will miss the year's second grand slam.
The governing body posted on its official Twitter account: ".@CaroWozniacki has withdrawn from @rolandgarros due to a right ankle injury. #RG16"
The 25-year-old was tumbled down the rankings in recent months. Having been as high as fourth last August, she is now placed 34th.
Wozniacki has not featured on the tour since losing to Elina Svitolina in the last-32 of the Miami Open in March.
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