ll eyes within the tennis world flip to Roland Garros for the subsequent fortnight because the French Open takes place, although there can be a well-known face lacking.
Defending champion and 14-time winner Rafael Nadalhas been pressured to withdraw attributable to damage, with the Spaniard eager to be absolutely match for one ultimate yr on tour in 2024, and so it’s Carlos Alcarez who arrives in Paris as favorite for the lads’s title.
The 20-year-old received his first Grand Slam on the US Open final yr and it’s certainly solely a matter of time earlier than that tally is doubled, with Alcaraz so spectacular for a lot of the clay-court swing this season. Novak Djokovic will fancy his possibilities of a 3rd French Open success although, one that might set the stage for a severe calendar Grand Slam bid.
On the ladies’s aspect of the draw, Iga Swiatek is as ever the one to beat, regardless of her latest thigh damage scare in Rome. The world primary has come out on prime at Roland Garros in two of the previous three years, however will face stiff competitors from Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka.
The three have been the shape gamers on the prime of the ladies’s recreation in 2023, with Sabalenka getting the higher of Rybakina in an exciting Australian Open in the beginning of the yr.
Dates and venue
The French Open will get underway on Sunday, Could 28, 2023, and runs by means of to the lads’s ultimate a fortnight later, on Sunday June 11.
As ever, it’s being performed at Roland Garros in Paris.
The best way to watch the French Open
TV channel: The match can be broadcast in full on Eurosport, with a subscription costing £6.99-a-month or £59.99 for an annual cross.
Dwell stream: These have have subscribed can stream each match by means of the invention+ app and web site.
Iga Swiatek goes seeking a 3rd French Open title
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Males’s and girls’s singles
- Champion – €2.3million
- Runner-up – €1.15m
- Semi-finalist – €630,000
- Quarter-finalist – €400,000
- Fourth spherical – €240,000
- Third spherical – €142,000
- Second spherical – €97,000
- First spherical – €69,000
Males’s and girls’s doubles (per pair)
- Champion – €590,000
- Runner-up – €295,000
- Semi-finalist – €148,000
- Quarter-finalist – €80,000
- Third spherical – €43,000
- Second spherical – €27,000
- First spherical – €17,000
In Photos | Roland Garros: French Open Tennis 2022
Full singles schedule
Play will start for the morning periods at 10am BST, with the motion getting underway on Philipe-Chatrier an hour later. The ten night time periods will start at 7:30pm.
- Sunday, Could 28 – males’s and girls’s first spherical
- Monday, Could 29 – males’s and girls’s first spherical
- Tuesday, Could 30 – males’s and girls’s first spherical
- Wednesday, Could 31 – males’s and girls’s second spherical
- Thursday, June 1 – males’s and girls’s second spherical
- Friday, June 2 – males’s and girls’s third spherical
- Saturday, June 3 – males’s and girls’s third spherical
- Sunday, June 4 – males’s and girls’s fourth spherical
- Monday, June 5 – males’s and girls’s fourth spherical
- Tuesday, June 6 – males’s and girls’s quarter-finals
- Wednesday, June 7 – males’s and girls’s quarter-finals
- Thursday, June 8 – girls’s semi-finals
- Friday, June 9 – males’s semi-finals
- Saturday, June 10 – girls’s ultimate
- Sunday, June 11 – males’s ultimate
British gamers in the primary draw
Properly, it’s not nice information.
There can be no British gamers within the girls’s singles draw, the primary time that has occurred at any Grand Slam for 14 years. Emma Raducanu is out with damage, and Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart and Fran Jones had been amongst these unable to make it by means of qualifying.
Andy Murray has opted to prioritise Wimbledon and Kyle Edmund pulled out simply hours earlier than the draw attributable to damage, leaving Cameron Norrie, Jack Draper and Dan Evans because the gamers flying the British flag.
Norrie will face Frenchman Benoit Paire within the opening spherical, whereas Evans goes up in opposition to Thanasi Kokkinakis, who had that marathon match with Andy Murray in Melbourne again in January. Draper, that includes in the primary draw at Roland Garros for the primary time, takes on Tomas Etcheverry.
Andy Murray has already turned his consideration to Wimbledon
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Males’s
- 1 – Carlos Alcaraz
- 2 – Daniil Medvedev
- 3 – Novak Djokovic
- 4 – Casper Ruud
- 5 – Stefanos Tsitsipas
- 6 – Holger Rune
- 7 – Andrey Rublev
- 8 – Jannik Sinner
- 9 – Taylor Fritz
- 10 – Felix Auger-Aliassime
- 11 – Karen Khachanov
- 12 – Frances Tiafoe
- 13 – Hubert Hurkacz
- 14 – Cameron Norrie
- 15 – Borna Coric
- 16 – Tommy Paul
Favorite: Carlos Alcaraz is predicted to go deep within the match
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- 1 – Iga Swiatek
- 2 – Aryna Sabalenka
- 3 – Jessica Pegula
- 4 – Elena Rybakina
- 5 – Caroline Garcia
- 6 – Coco Gauff
- 7 – Ons Jabeur
- 8 – Maria Sakkari
- 9 – Daria Kasatkina
- 10 – Petra Kvitova
- 11 – Veronika Kudermetova
- 12 – Belinda Bencic
- 13 – Barbora Krejcikova
- 14 – Beatriz Haddad Maia
- 15 – Liudmila Samsonova
- 16 – Karolina Pliskova
Newest odds for French Open
Males’s Singles:
Carlos Alcaraz 8/5
Novak Djokovic 23/10
Daniil Medvedev 17/2
Ladies’s Singles:
Iga Swiatek 8/11
Elena Rybakina 6/1
Aryna Sabalenka 13/2
Odds appropriate as Thursday twenty fifth Could. Topic to alter.
