{"id":590670,"date":"2026-05-18T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590670\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:56:29","slug":"big-names-headline-qualifying-draws-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590670\/","title":{"rendered":"Big names headline qualifying draws &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephens, a 2017 US Open champion over Madison Keys and 2018 Roland-Garros runner-up to Simona Halep, opens against fellow American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/51095-cys.lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carol Young Suh Lee<\/a>, while Andreescu, the 2019 winner at Flushing Meadows, faces 17-year-old French wildcard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/44112-g.mpetshi-perricard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daphnee Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> &#8211; the sister of ATP star Giovanni.<\/p>\n<p>A quarterfinalist in Paris two years ago, Dimitrov bids to claim just his third win this season when he opens against Portuguese 10th seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/47931-j.faria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jaime Faria<\/a>. Fellow 35-year-old Goffin, who made the fourth round on debut as a lucky loser in 2012, meets Chinese Taipei\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/40467-ch.tseng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tseng Chun-hsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephens, a 2017 US Open champion over Madison Keys and 2018 Roland-Garros runner-up to Simona Halep, opens against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}