Cecchinato helps Houkes through cramp in a classy Roland-Garros qualifying moment<\/p>\n
Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n
World No. 1 Sinner<\/a> is seeking to complete the career Grand Slam by winning in Paris and starts as the outright favourite, having won his past 29 matches.With defending champion Carlos Alcaraz out because of injury<\/a>, Djokovic could be Sinner’s biggest threat at the Grand Slam, which starts on Sunday, May 24, live on TNT Sports and HBO Max<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, Djokovic has played just one clay match this season as he has been battling a shoulder issue and faces a tricky opener against big-server Mpetshi Perricard, as well as a potential last-16 match against two-time runner-up Casper Ruud. He could also face Joao Fonseca in the third.<\/p>\n Djokovic will be the third seed at the tournament behind Sinner and Alexander Zverev, who faces France\u2019s Benjamin Bonzi in the first round.<\/p>\n One of the standout first-round matches sees former champion Stan Wawrinka face rising French star Arthur Fils.<\/p>\n Wawrinka is playing the Grand Slam for the final time before retiring at the end of the season.<\/p>\n Gael Monfils is also ending his career later this year and has been drawn to face fellow Frenchman Hugo Gaston in the first round.<\/p>\n Defending women\u2019s champion Coco Gauff<\/a> starts with a clash against fellow American Taylor Townsend and is on the same half of the draw as world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, who begins her bid for a first French Open title against Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.<\/p>\n If Gauff and Sabalenka do meet in the semis, it will be a rematch of last year’s final, which was won by the American.<\/p>\n British No. 1 Emma Raducanu, who recently returned to action after over two months out<\/a>, faces world No. 64 Solana Sierra in the first round.<\/p>\n Four-time champion Iga Swiatek starts against Emerson Jones and could face Jelena Ostapenko in the third round.<\/p>\n Among the other first-round matches is a battle between two rising stars as 18-year-old Iva Jovic takes on 20-year-old Alexandra Eala.<\/p>\n Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka starts against Laura Siegemund and 2021 champion Barbora Krejcikova meets Hailey Baptiste.<\/p>\n Britain\u2019s Katie Boulter will face wildcard Akaha Urhobo.<\/p>\n Add TNT Sports as a preferred source here<\/a>\u00a0to enjoy more content like this.TNT Sports is the exclusive French Open broadcaster in the UK and Ireland. Coverage of every court will be available to stream live on HBO Max<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cecchinato helps Houkes through cramp in a classy Roland-Garros qualifying moment Video credit: TNT Sports World No. 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[199776,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-roland-garros-2026","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597149","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=597149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}