French Open : Lendl, Lloyd Win; Graf Streak Is 21

Ivan Lendl, Chris Evert Lloyd and Steffi Graf moved into the second round of the $2.6-million French Open tennis championships Monday at Paris.

Lendl, the world’s No. 1 player from Czechoslovakia, routed West Germany’s Michael Westphal, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4.

“I feel I’m playing well,” said Lendl, who won the tournament in 1984 but lost in last year’s final to Mats Wilander. “I expected nothing spectacular, but it was good.

“I really wanted to win last year. And, as much as I wanted to win last year, I want to win even more this year, if that is possible.”

Lloyd, seeking a record seventh French Open championship, crushed 17-year-old Cecile Calmette, the French national junior girls champion, 6-0, 6-1, in 51 minutes.

“They told me she was the French junior champion, so I didn’t want to get out there and just be casual about it,” Lloyd said. “I was ready to just go out and play.”

But the defending women’s champion, seeded No. 2 this year, was dawdling compared to the third-seeded Graf, who blitzed fellow West German Andrea Betzner, 6-1, 6-0, in just 34 minutes.

During the match, Graf won 49 points to 15 for Betzner. And it was the 21st consecutive victory for the 16-year-old Graf, who has won her last four tournaments, defeating all of the top players, including Lloyd, Martina Navratilova and Hana Mandlikova.

“It means I come in here with a chance to go very far,” Graf said of her winning streak. “I think I’m playing very well. I think I have a good chance, not to win, but to reach the quarterfinals.”

Another West German teen-age star, Wimbledon champion Boris Becker, supported his No. 3 seeding with a 6-0, 6-3, 6-0 victory over Jerome Potier of France. No. 5-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden rallied to beat Shahar Perkiss of Israel, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.

The only seeded player to fall on opening day was No. 11 Kathy Jordan, who was upset by Camille Benjamin of Bakersfield, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3. Jordan ranks 15th in the world, while Benjamin is No. 66.

Jordan double-faulted five times in her loss. There were 11 service breaks, and Benjamin won just one more point than Jordan in the match, 79-78.

The women’s No. 1-seeded player, Martina Navratilova, and Wilander are scheduled to play their opening-round matches today, as is No. 15 Jimmy Arias, who severely sprained his right ankle during an exhibition match Sunday.

If Arias, who was on crutches Monday, is unable to play, his spot will be taken by Florin Segarcenu of Romania.

John Lloyd, disgusted after losing to qualifier Luiz Mattar of Brazil, 5-7, 7-5, 6-1, 6-4, in the opening round of the French Open, announced his retirement from tennis Monday.

The 31-year-old Englishman said he would continue through the season but would retire after the Australian Open.