Defending champion Gauff takes on fellow American Taylor Townsend<\/a>, with Anastasia Potapova<\/a> a potential banana skin in the third round.<\/p>\n Swiatek<\/a> has been handed an extremely tough draw. Emerson Jones<\/a> is a relatively straightforward opening match, but her bogey opponent, Jelena Ostapenko<\/a>, could await in the third round. Ostapenko leads that head-to-head 6-0.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Pole could face the in-form Ukrainian duo, Marta Kostuk<\/a> and Elina Svitolina<\/a>, in the fourth round and quarter-final, respectively.<\/p>\n Kostyuk won the WTA 1000 event in Madrid at the start of May, while Svitolina clinched her third Rome title just under a week ago after defeating Elena Rybakina<\/a>, Swiatek and Gauff on her way to the trophy.<\/p>\n Second seed Rybakina, who has never made it past the quarters in Paris, is in Swiatek’s half and begins against Veronika Erjavec<\/a>. Jasmine Paolini<\/a> is a potential last 16 opponent, while Mirra Andreeeva<\/a> would be her quarter-final match-up.<\/p>\n Close friends Iva Jovic<\/a>, 18, and Alexandra Eala<\/a>, 20, will meet in one of the more fascinating first-round meetings\u00a0<\/p>\n On the men’s side, 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic<\/a>, who is eyeing a record-breaking 25th title, will have a huge task on his hands.<\/p>\n He comes up against huge-serving home favourite Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> in an incredibly awkward opener, with Joao Fonseca<\/a> a third-round opponent and two-time finalist Casper Ruud<\/a> in the fourth round.<\/p>\n He is on the opposite side of the draw to Jannik Sinner<\/a>, however, with Alexander Zverev<\/a>, the top seed, in his half.<\/p>\n Zverev has Taylor Fritz<\/a> in his quarter once again and opens against Benjamin Bonzi<\/a>.<\/p>\n World number one Sinner, who is the overwhelming favourite to win the title and complete the Career Grand Slam, begins against Clement Tabur<\/a>.<\/p>\n Former Wimbledon finalist\u00a0Matteo Berrettini<\/a> may be a third-round opponent, while Ben Shelton<\/a> could await in the quarter-finals, before a semi-final meeting with either Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> or Daniil Medvedev<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gael Monfils<\/a>, who is taking part in his final French Open, faces fellow Frenchman Hugo Gaston<\/a>. Another huge fan favourite, Arthur Fils<\/a>, gets his campaign underway against another retiring player, Stanislas Wawrinka<\/a>. Both matches are sure to garner an incredible atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time winner Iga Swiatek and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic have been handed nightmare draws at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-656949","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\/656949","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=656949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sabalenka](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3d372464-0500-4da6-be4c-494f6c56de46.jpg\" "\\"Sabalenka")
Sabalenka is set to face Bouzas Maneiro in the first roundPSNEWZ \/ Sipa Press \/ Profimedia<\/p>\n