{"id":613406,"date":"2026-05-31T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:55:19","slug":"mens-draw-welcome-to-the-great-wide-open-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613406\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s draw: welcome to the great wide open &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After shaking Court Philippe-Chatrier to its foundations with his ferocious forehand, Brazil\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/48336-j.fonseca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joao Fonseca<\/a> said the pressure won\u2019t be on him. <\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old sure played like a title contender on Saturday night against Djokovic, but he would rather see the spotlight shone on the tried-and-true veterans still left in the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, Jannik and Djokovic are out and there&#8217;s more chances for the guys that have more time on tour, like Sascha and Casper,\u201d he said. \u201cI&#8217;m just going to enjoy the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since Rafael Nadal won his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/nadal-reigns-supreme-with-14th-roland-garros-title-rg2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">final title at Roland-Garros in 2022<\/a>, the winner of a men\u2019s singles Grand Slam won\u2019t be named Djokovic, Alcaraz or Sinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ruud, having been to three major finals, says he plans to use his experience to make a run for the Coupe des Mousquetaires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m going to try to use the experiences that I&#8217;ve had of reaching far in Slams to my advantage and see where that takes me, but you focus one match at a time,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After shaking Court Philippe-Chatrier to its foundations with his ferocious forehand, Brazil\u2019s Joao Fonseca said the pressure won\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613406","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\/613406","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=613406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}