GB's Gill loses in final round of qualifying

Britain's Felix Gill will have to wait to make his Grand Slam singles debut after he fell at the final hurdle in French Open qualifying.

World number 237 Gill was unable to join compatriot Toby Samuel in the main draw at Roland Garros as he suffered a 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 defeat by France's Kyrian Jacquet.

The first round of the men's and women's singles starts in Paris on Sunday.

Samuel, who has never played in the main draw of a singles major before, is the only one of 12 Britons to make it through the three qualifying rounds.

There will be six British players in the singles main draw, with Samuel joining Cameron Norrie, Jacob Fearnley, Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Francesca Jones.

There was little to separate the players in the first set on Court Suzanne Lenglen, with Gill breaking back immediately after dropping serve in the third game.

But Jacquet opened up a 3-0 lead in the tie-break and Englishman Gill could not claw his way back as the Frenchman secured the opener to the delight of the home crowd.

Jacquet carried his momentum into the second set and struck the decisive blow at 3-2 before serving out victory on his second match point four games later.

Of the six British players in both singles draws, only Norrie is seeded.

Norrie will open against Paraguay's Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, while Fearnley faces Argentina's Juan Manuel Cerundolo with the likely prospect of world number one Jannik Sinner waiting in round two.

Samuel, meanwhile, will face Australia's eighth seed Alex de Minaur.

Raducanu has been handed a tricky first-round test against Argentine clay-court specialist Solana Sierra as Boulter starts against American wildcard Akasha Urhobo, and 25-year-old Jones plays Brazil's 2023 semi-finalist Beatriz Haddad Maia.