Former Alabama NCAA champion Erin Routliffe is the world’s top-ranked tennis player in women’s doubles after reaching the championship match at Wimbledon earlier this month. But on Monday, she and partner Lulu Sun lost in the first round of women’s doubles at the Paris Olympics.

Representing New Zealand and unseeded for the Olympic tournament, Routliffe and Sun fell to Italy’s Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-3 on Court Philippe-Chatrier at Roland Garros.

Errani and Paolini are the third-seeded women’s doubles team in Paris and advanced to the Round of 16 with a victory in a match that was supposed to be played on Saturday. Rain scrambled the schedule for the opening day of tennis at the Summer Games.

Routliffe won the NCAA women’s doubles championship in 2014 and 2015 while playing for Alabama. She reached the women’s doubles final at Wimbledon on July 13 playing with Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada. They teamed to win the U.S. Open women’s doubles championship last year.

Errani and Paolini are scheduled to play France’s Carolina Garcia and Diane Parry on Tuesday.

In the second round in men’s doubles on Tuesday, Tim Puetz (Auburn) and his partner Kevin Krawietz of Germany will play Gael Monfils and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France. The No. 2 seed in men’s doubles, Puetz and Krawietz defeated Russians Daniil Medvedev and Roman Safiullin 6-4, 6-4 on Monday.

Sweden’s Victor Johansson (Alabama) completed the men’s 800-meter freestyle in 7 minutes, 49.47 seconds on Monday. That placed seventh in his heat and 16th among the 31 swimmers in the event. The time did not advance Johansson to the eight-man final on Tuesday.

Johansson also was eliminated in the heats for the men’s 400-meter freestyle on Saturday. He still has the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle on Saturday and the men’s 10-kilometer open-water event on Aug. 9 on his Olympic schedule.

Tuesday will be a busier day at the Paris Olympics for athletes with Alabama roots with seven on the schedule, including Suni Lee (Auburn) and the United States seeking the team gold in women’s artistic gymnastics and Birmingham native Tanner Tessmann and the U.S. men’s soccer team battling Guinea. A victory would advance the United States out of group play into the knockout round.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.