{"id":654203,"date":"2026-05-20T10:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:25:18","slug":"eight-young-stars-you-have-to-see-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654203\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight young stars you HAVE to see &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Jodar (Spain)<\/p>\n<p>This time last year, Madrid native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/49822-r.jodar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rafael Jodar<\/a> was ranked No.707 in the world and competing in the US on the ATP Challenger Tour. Since then, the teenage sensation has blazed into the ATP&#8217;s top 30 and will be seeded in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old, who completed just a single semester at the University of Virginia before turning pro in late 2025, clearly relishes the big stages.<\/p>\n<p>Already this year he\u2019s qualified for the Australian Open, made the Miami Open third round as a qualifier, just prior to picking up a maiden ATP title in Marrakech on clay.<\/p>\n<p>And remarkably the wins kept coming. <\/p>\n<p>Jodar stormed into the ATP 500 Barcelona semi-finals and on home courts in Madrid defeated No.8 seed Alex de Minaur and Joao Fonseca to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/39723-j.sinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> in the last eight. Jodar pushed the world No.1 in a 6-2, 7-6(0) meeting during which he held seven break points against the top-ranked Italian. The Spaniard arrives in Paris off the back of another Masters 1000 quarter-final in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Cries of &#8216;Vamos Rafa!&#8217; will be ringing around Roland-Garros once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Jodar (Spain) This time last year, Madrid native Rafael Jodar was ranked No.707 in the world and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-654203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}