Florida Teenager Loses French Open Debut PARIS - Lauren Davis of Boca Raton, Fla., rallied from a disastrous first seven games to make a match out of a rout but lost, 6-0, 7-5, to Kristina Mladenovic on Tuesday in the first round of the French Open. "I was really nervous and tight," Davis said of the first set. I was hitting the ball short and missing a lot. Davis, 19, lost her serve in the first game of the match and seemed off balance in the early stages, once failing to anticipate a drop shot, then, a point later, slamming an easy backhand into the net. Davis surrendered her serve a second time when Mladenovic, 20, of France sliced a backhand service return down the line, catching Davis flat-footed. It got worse for Davis, who is ranked 65th in the world. She dropped her serve a third time to trail by 5-0. Mladenovic, ranked 46th, stepped to the line to serve out the set after only 18 minutes and won it six minutes later. Upset by her errors, Davis drummed her fingers on the side of her head when she fell behind on her serve, 15-40, as the second set began. Mladenovic, the world junior champion in 2009, sliced a drop shot into Davis's forehand court and put still another service break onto the scoreboard. "She's very tenacious, she's very brave," Mladenovic said. She fought tooth and nail on each point, and I didn't expect to have 6-love in the first set. Davis finally got on the board in the eighth game of the match, but only by holding on long enough for Mladenovic to double fault on a break point. "I loosened up and started hitting out on the ground," Davis said. Struggling but refusing to relent, Davis worked her way back into the second set, keeping the ball in play for longer rallies, falling only when Mladenovic took control in the final moments. Asked what she had learned from the match, Davis said, "That I have a lot to work on if I want to achieve my goal." That objective, she said, is to reach a top-30 ranking.