A look on the French Open, the second Grand Slam tennis match of 2022:

SURFACE

Pink clay courts

SITE

Roland Garros on the outskirts of Paris

SCHEDULE

Play begins Sunday on the solely 15-day Grand Slam match (the others final precisely two weeks). There are scheduled night time classes, like on the U.S. Open and Australian Open. The ladies’s singles remaining is Saturday, June 4; the boys’s singles remaining is Sunday, June 5.

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SEEDINGS

Iga Swiatek is seeded No. 1 within the ladies’s draw; Novak Djokovic is seeded No. 1 within the males’s draw. The seedings comply with the WTA and ATP rankings.

2021 WOMEN’S SINGLES CHAMPION

Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic

2021 MEN’S SINGLES CHAMPION

Novak Djokovic, Serbia

LOOKAHEAD TO SUNDAY

The one Grand Slam match that begins on a Sunday will get going with an end-of-day likelihood for the world to look at Carlos Alcaraz, the Spaniard who lately turned 19 and is usually thought of a future champion. The No. 6-seeded Alcaraz will shut the Day 1 schedule at Court docket Philippe Chatrier towards Juan Ignacio Londero, a 28-year-old from Argentina who's ranked 141st. Londero is barely 6-9 over his profession at main tournaments, however he did make a run to the fourth spherical at Roland Garros in 2019 earlier than dropping to 13-time champion Rafael Nadal. 

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For Alcaraz, this will probably be his sixth Grand Slam look and second in Paris. His finest Slam displaying was reaching the quarterfinals on the U.S. Open final yr; he misplaced within the third spherical in his French Open debut in 2021. Different gamers in motion Sunday embody 2016 French Open champion Garbiñe Muguruza, 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens, 2021 U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez, American teenager Coco Gauff and No. 6 seed Ons Jabeur among the many ladies, together with 2020 U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem, Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Alexander Zverev and No. 9 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime among the many males.

SUNDAY FORECAST

Cloudy. Excessive of 77 levels Fahrenheit (25 Celsius).

KEY STATISTIC I

18 — Alcaraz’s age when he first reached the ATP’s prime 10 this yr, making him the youngest participant to climb that prime since Rafael Nadal in 2005.

KEY STATISTIC II

25 — Variety of gamers within the ladies’s draw, out of 128, who're making their main-draw debut at Roland Garros this yr.

PRIZE MONEY

Whole: 43.6 million euros (about $46 million), a rise from 34.4 million euros (about $36.5 million) in 2021, when COVID-19 restrictions led to attendance limits at Roland Garros. The singles champions will gather 2.2 million euros (about $2.3 million) apiece — up from 1.4 million euros (just below $1.5 million) in 2021, however down down from 2.3 million euros (about $2.4 million) in 2019, when the final pre-pandemic French Open was held.