Alcaraz needed a medical timeout for treatment on a hip in the second set, then was a point from getting pushed to a third, but finished the job. Alcaraz won the French Open last month for his third Grand Slam title, then added a fourth at Wimbledon this month. Other winners were Casper Ruud of Norway and Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece, who both have reached French Open finals. In other action around the same facility used for the French Open, where Nadal won 14 of his 22 major championships, three-time major champion Angelique Kerber was a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 winner against Jaqueline Adina Cristian of Romania, and Wimbledon champ Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic and Wimbledon runner-up Jasmine Paolini of Italy advanced in straight sets. Gauff's American teammates Danielle Collins and Emma Navarro both won. Collins eliminated 2018 Australian Open title winner Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. The next opponent for Gauff will be Donna Vekic, a Croatian who was a semifinalist at Wimbledon a little more than two weeks ago and got past 2019 U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu of Canada 6-3, 6-4 on Monday.

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Gauff vs. Vekic was scheduled for Tuesday, as was the first-round match for Gauff and Taylor Fritz in mixed doubles. Gauff is hoping to win three medals at these Games " in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Since tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988, no player has ever left a single Games with medals from three events. On Monday, Gauff was not at all concerned by the heat, which rose into the 80s Fahrenheit for the first time during the Paris Olympics. Being from Florida means that sort of thing is not a big deal to Gauff, although she made some concessions, wearing ice-filled towels to cool off during changeovers and taking an ice bath after the match. "I'm just trying my best to be preventative before maybe I feel fatigue and everything," Gauff said. "Obviously, my last two matches, I went quick. So I'm just trying to think for the future, towards the end of the tournament."

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