Not really disturbed by the presence of his former coach for 15 years, Marian Vajda, in the box of the Slovak that he has been training since the beginning of the month, the Serb has quietly unrolled his score.
Molcan, finalist this year in Lyon and Marrakech, barely managed to delay him in the third set, pushing him to play a tie-break, before the Serb won in 2:15.
"I have a lot of respect for Alex, he is improving," Djokovic said after the match.
Before adding with a smile: "But I hope this is the first and the last time that I will have to face Marian (Vajda)."
"It's always a pleasure to play here, even if the conditions were not easy today with the wind changing direction all the time, which pushes us to stay focused on each ball," he said. it belongs.
In the first round, "Nole", defending champion in Paris, had spent less than two hours on the court to defeat the Japanese left-hander Yoshihito Nishioka (99th).
To try to reach the round of 16, he will face an opponent still a priori largely within his reach, the Slovenian Aljaz Bedene, 195th in the world.
After an almost blank start to the season due to his refusal to be vaccinated against Covid, Djokovic won in Rome in mid-May, his first title in more than six months.
He hopes to win Porte d'Auteuil his 21st Grand Slam trophy, which would allow him to equal the record held by Rafael Nadal since his coronation at the Australian Open in January.
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