Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz may meet in the French Open semi-finals after they had been drawn in the identical half of the males’s match, whereas defending girls’s champion Iga Swiatek was handed a troublesome path to the closing.
Djokovic and Alcaraz have met simply as soon as since the Spaniard burst onto the scene on his strategy to turning into world No 1 final season – with the 19-year-old profitable in three units at the Madrid Open final April.
Alcaraz was absent for Djokovic’s Australian Open victory in January resulting from damage, whereas the 36-year-old Djokovic missed Alcaraz’s US Open win final season due to his Covid vaccine standing.
With 14-time champion Rafael Nadal absent from Roland Garros for the first time since 2005, the males’s match is large open forward of the second grand slam of the season.
Daniil Medvedev’s shock victory at the Italian Open final week meant Djokovic, who will try and win a file twenty third grand slam title in Paris, dropped third in the rankings, with Alcaraz remaining the prime seed in the draw.
British No 1 Cameron Norrie may face Alcaraz in the fourth spherical, with Stefanos Tsitsipas a possible quarter-final opponent. The Spaniard will play a qualifier or fortunate loser in the opening spherical.
Djokovic was drawn in the identical quarter as Andrey Rublev and will start his quest for a 3rd French Open title in opposition to the world No 114 Aleksandar Kovacevic.
There are three British males in the singles draw – with Norrie will beginning his marketing campaign in opposition to Frenchman Benoit Paire, Dan Evans going through Thanasi Kokkinakis, and Jack Draper meeting Tomas Etcheverry.
In the girls’s draw, defending champion Swiatek and Barbora Krejcikova – the winners of the final three girls’s singles titles – may meet in the fourth spherical, with Victoria Azarenka additionally a possible opponent at that stage.
Swiatek is additionally projected to play Coco Gauff in the quarter-finals – in what can be a rematch of final 12 months’s closing – whereas the Pole additionally landed in the identical half of the draw as Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina – who has received all three of their conferences this season.
Australian Open champion and world No 2 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus will face Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk in the first spherical, and landed in the identical quarter of the draw as France’s top-ranked participant Caroline Garcia.
There had been no British girls in the singles draw, whereas Kyle Edmund has withdrawn from the match resulting from a wrist damage.
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