Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev to face qualifiers at French Open, Novak Djokovic takes on Aleksandar Kovacevic

Prime seed Carlos Alcaraz will face a qualifier within the first spherical of the French Open.

Alcaraz is among the many favourites to win at Roland-Garros, alongside Novak Djokovic, after 14-time champion Rafael Nadal introduced he wouldn’t defend his title owing to damage.

Djokovic is seeded third and can start his quest for a 3rd title at Roland-Garros with a match towards Aleksandar Kovacevic

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Daniil Medvedev is on the other aspect of the draw to Alcaraz and Djokovic. The Russian has proven enchancment on his least favoured floor, successful the Rome Masters final week, and he’ll begin second seed with an encounter – like Alcaraz – towards a qualifier.

Holger Rune is seeded sixth, with Christopher Eubanks awaiting him within the first spherical.

Britain’s Cameron Norrie begins with a match towards Benoit Paire, Dan Evans faces Thanasi Kokkinakis and Jack Draper begins towards Tomas Martin Etcheverry.

Qualifying concludes on Friday.

Full draw to observe…

How does the French Open draw work?

There are 128 gamers within the males’s and girls’s singles attracts.

There are 32 seeded gamers in every draw, that are decided by the ATP and WTA rankings the week earlier than the match begins.

These seeds might be drawn aside and can’t face one another for the primary few rounds of the match. The highest seed and the second seed can solely meet within the remaining, and the highest 4 seeds can solely meet within the semi-finals. If the seeds maintain, then the highest eight seeds would all attain the quarter-finals.

French Open seeds – high 16

Males’s seeds

• 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

Girls’s seeds

• 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

What’s the French Open schedule?

All instances are UK time

• Males’s and girls’s first spherical – Might 28, 29, 30 (play begins 10am, evening session scheduled to start out at 7.30pm on Might 29 and 30)
• Males’s and girls’s second spherical – Might 31, June 1 (play begins 10am, evening session scheduled to start out at 7.30pm)
• Males’s and girls’s third spherical – June 2, 3 (play begins 10am, evening session scheduled to start out at 7.30pm)
• Males’s and girls’s fourth spherical – June 4, 5 (play begins 10am, evening session scheduled to start out at 7.30pm)
• Males’s and girls’s quarter-finals – June 6, 7 (play begins 10am, evening session scheduled to start out at 7.30pm)
• Girls’s semi-finals – June 8 (play begins 2pm)
• Males’s semi-finals – June 9 (play begins 1.45pm)
• Girls’s remaining – June 10 (2pm)
• Males’s remaining – June 11 (2pm)

Will Rafael Nadal be match for the French Open?

Nadal initially mentioned he would miss as much as eight weeks after struggling a grade two iliopsoas tear on the Australian Open in January.

Because the defending champion on the French Open, Nadal has 2,000 rating factors to defend, so he’ll drop out of the highest 100 on the planet rankings following the match.

Nadal’s exit leaves Djokovic and Alcaraz because the main contenders for the Grand Slam.

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