The French Open begins at Roland Garros on Sunday, with loads of intriguing subplots for tennis followers to look at intently over the subsequent fortnight.
14-time champion Rafael Nadal is about to play within the match for one ultimate time earlier than he retires later this yr, whereas Andy Murray, enjoying in Paris for simply the second time in seven years, can also be not anticipated to return once more in future.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are two of the favourites however each have had damage points within the build-up to Roland Garros, whereas Novak Djokovic, who should a minimum of attain the ultimate to forestall Sinner changing him as world No1, is but to supply his greatest tennis throughout the clay-court swing.
Alexander Zverev, winner of the Italian Open final week, has reached three straight semi-finals at this match, although he has the small matter of a first-round conflict with Nadal.
There is no such thing as a doubting who the favorite is on the ladies’s facet of the draw, as Iga Swiatek bids to win her fourth French Open title and a fifth Grand Slam general.
Coco Gauff might show to be the most important menace on Swiatek’s path to the ultimate, however the American, like most, has a depressing document towards the Polish star.
Aryna Sabalenka has not failed to achieve the las -four of a Slam she has performed in for the reason that 2022 Australian Open, although she has misplaced to Swiatek in finals in each Madrid and Rome in latest weeks.
Dominant: It’s troublesome to see Iga Swiatek being stopped at Roland Garros
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French Open 2024 dates and venue
The French Open will get underway on Sunday, Might 26, 2024, and runs by means of to the boys’s ultimate a fortnight later, on Sunday, June 9.
As ever, it’s being performed at Roland Garros in Paris.
Easy methods to watch the French Open
TV channel: The match shall be broadcast in full on Eurosport, with a subscription costing £6.99 a month or £59.99 for an annual go.
Stay stream: Those that have subscribed can even stream each match stay on-line by means of the Discovery+ app and web site.
French Open 2024 prize cash
Males’s and ladies’s singles
- Champion – €2.4million
- Runner-up – €1.2m
- Semi-finalist – €650,000
- Quarter-finalist – €415,000
- Fourth spherical – €250,000
- Third spherical – €158,000
- Second spherical – €110,000
- First spherical – €73,000
Males’s and ladies’s doubles (per pair)
- Champion – €590,000
- Runner-up – €295,000
- Semi-finalist – €148,000
- Quarter-finalist – €80,000
- Third spherical – €43,500
- Second spherical – €27,500
- First spherical – €17,500
Novak Djokovic beat Casper Ruud in final yr’s French Open males’s ultimate
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French Open 2024 full singles schedule
Play will start for the morning periods at 10am BST, with the motion getting underway on Court docket Philippe-Chatrier an hour later. The evening periods will start at 7:15pm.
- Sunday, Might 26 – males’s and ladies’s first spherical
- Monday, Might 27 – males’s and ladies’s first spherical
- Tuesday, Might 28 – males’s and ladies’s first spherical
- Wednesday, Might 29 – males’s and ladies’s second spherical
- Thursday, Might 30 – males’s and ladies’s second spherical
- Friday, Might 31 – males’s and ladies’s third spherical
- Saturday, June 1 – males’s and ladies’s third spherical
- Sunday, June 2 – males’s and ladies’s fourth spherical
- Monday, June 3 – males’s and ladies’s fourth spherical
- Tuesday, June 4 – males’s and ladies’s quarter-finals
- Wednesday, June 5 – males’s and ladies’s quarter-finals
- Thursday, June 6 – ladies’s semi-finals
- Friday, June 7 – males’s semi-finals
- Saturday, June 8 – ladies’s ultimate
- Sunday, June 9 – males’s ultimate
British gamers and notable first-round matches
There are six British singles gamers in the principle draw, with Heather Watson, Billy Harris and Ryan Peniston amongst these unable to make it by means of qualifying and add to that tally.
Emma Raducanu is not going to characteristic at Roland Garros, after she withdrew from the qualifying occasion in an try “to maintain match for the remainder of the yr”.
Murray, enjoying within the French Open for what is predicted to be the ultimate time, has been handed a troublesome first-round draw towards 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka. It’s the third match in a row at Roland Garros that Murray has confronted Wawrinka, having misplaced to him in each 2017 and 2020.
Dan Evans, who will play within the doubles in Paris alongside Murray, goes up towards Holger Rune, whereas Jack Draper crashed out.
Cameron Norrie, if he beats Pavel Kotov, will tackle the winner of Murray’s conflict with Wawrinka.
Harriet Dart faces the seeded Linda Noskova, and Katie Boulter, who has by no means received a main-draw match on clay in her profession, performs Paula Badosa, a former world No2.
Favorite Swiatek goes up towards a qualifier within the opening spherical and will then face Naomi Osaka, if the four-time Grand Slam winner will get previous Lucia Bronzetti.
Andy Murray faces Stan Wawrinka in a blockbuster first-round encounter
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Notable first-round matches:
Andy Murray vs Stan Wawrinka
Cameron Norrie (32) vs Pavel Kotov
Dan Evans vs Holger Rune (13)
Jack Draper vs Jesper De Jong
Alexander Zverev (4) vs Rafael Nadal
Harriet Dart vs Linda Noskova (27)
Katie Boulter (26) vs Paula Badosa
Qinwen Zheng (7) vs Alize Cornet
Elina Svitolina vs Karolina Pliskova
Lucia Bronzetti vs Naomi Osaka
French Open 2024 seedings
- 1 – Novak Djokovic
- 2 – Jannik Sinner
- 3 – Carlos Alcaraz
- 4 – Alexander Zverev
- 5 – Daniil Medvedev
- 6 – Andrey Rublev
- 7 – Casper Ruud
- 8 – Hubert Hurkacz
- 9 – Stefanos Tsitsipas
- 10 – Grigor Dimitrov
- 11 – Alex de Minaur
- 12 – Taylor Fritz
- 13 – Holger Rune
- 14 – Tommy Paul
- 15 – Ben Shelton
- 16 – Nicolas Jarry
- 17 – Ugo Humbert
- 18 – Karen Khachanov
- 19 – Alexander Bublik
- 20 – Sebastian Baez
- 21 – Felix Auger-Aliassime
- 22 – Adrian Mannarino
- 23 – Francisco Cerundolo
- 24 – Alejandro Tabilo
- 25 – Frances Tiafoe
- 26 – Tallon Griekspoor
- 27 – Sebastian Korda
- 28 – Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- 29 – Arthur Fils
- 30 – Lorenzo Musetti
- 31 – Mariano Navone
- 32 – Cameron Norrie
Aryna Sabalenka has solely as soon as gone past the third spherical at Roland Garros
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- 1 – Iga Swiatek
- 2 – Aryna Sabalenka
- 3 – Coco Gauff
- 4 – Elena Rybakina
- 5 – Marketa Vondrousova
- 6 – Maria Sakkari
- 7 – Qinwen Zheng
- 8 – Ons Jabeur
- 9 – Jelena Ostapenko
- 10 – Daria Kasatkina
- 11 – Danielle Collins
- 12 – Jasmine Paolini
- 13 – Beatriz Haddad Maia
- 14 – Madison Keys
- 15 – Elina Svitolina
- 16 – Ekaterina Alexandrova
- 17 – Liudmila Samsonova
- 18 – Marta Kostyuk
- 19 – Victoria Azarenka
- 20 – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- 21 – Carolina Garcia
- 22 – Emma Navarro
- 23 – Anna Kalinskaya
- 24 – Barbora Krejcikova
- 25 – Elise Mertens
- 26 – Katie Boulter
- 27 – Linda Noskova
- 28 – Sorana Cirstea
- 29 – Veronika Kudermetova
- 30 – Dayana Yastremska
- 31 – Leylah Fernandez
- 32 – Katerina Siniakova
French Open 2024 newest odds
Odds by way of Betfair (topic to vary).
