Play within the 12 months’s second Grand Slam match begins Sunday at Roland Garros, and for the primary time in almost 20 years, Rafael Nadal is not going to be competing within the French Open.

The 14-time champion had entered the clay-court main yearly since making his debut there in 2005, however he's out with a hip harm and isn’t positive when he'll return to the tour. That leaves everybody questioning who will stroll away from Paris with the lads’s trophy somewhat greater than two weeks from now.

Current No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz, former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev, 22-time Grand Slam champ Novak Djokovic and gifted 20-year-old Holger Rune are the names mostly talked about as contenders for the lads’s title. There are different gamers who take into account themselves as much as the duty, together with Stefanos Tsitsipas, the runner-up to Djokovic on the French Open in 2021 and once more on the Australian Open this January.

Defending champion Iga Swiatek, who additionally received at Roland Garros in 2021 and on the U.S. Open final September, leads the ladies’s area.

GET CAUGHT UP

Here is a few key studying earlier than the 12 months’s second Grand Slam tennis match:

PHOTOS: French Open 2023: How to observe, what to know, betting information earlier than play begins Sunday

- Nadal shouldn't be right here

- Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina cut up previous 4 main titles

- Alcaraz, Djokovic drawn to satisfy within the semifinals

- Facts and figures concerning the French Open, together with a glance again at 2022

- Capsules on the highest ladies

- Capsules on the highest males

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WHAT’S COMING UP SUNDAY?

Among the most-anticipated matchups on Day 1 can be No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka, a 25-year-old from Belarus who received the Australian Open in January, towards Marta Kostyuk, a 20-year-old from Ukraine, Kostyuk, who's ranked thirty ninth, received her first WTA title in March at Austin, Texas, and reached the fourth spherical at Roland Garros in 2021. Kostyuk has been refusing to shake palms after matches with opponents from Russia or Belarus throughout the struggle in Ukraine. “If she hates me, OK. I can’t do anything about that. There is going to be people who loves me; there is going to be people who hates me,” Sabalenka mentioned. “If she hates me, I don’t feel anything like that (toward) her.”

WHEN DO THEY PLAY?

The match schedule for Sunday has not been launched but. Play begins across the grounds at 11 a.m. native time in Paris, which is 5 a.m. EDT. Play in the primary stadium begins at midday native time, 6 a.m. EDT. The night time session begins at 8:30 p.m. native time, which is 2:30 p.m. EDT.

HOW TO WATCH

-In the U.S.: Tennis Channel, NBC, Peacock.

-In France: France TV, Amazon Prime.

-Other nations listed right here.

UPCOMING SINGLES SCHEDULE

-Sunday-Monday-Tuesday: First Round (Women and Men)

-Wednesday-Thursday: Second Round (Women and Men)

-Friday-Saturday: Third Round (Women and Men)

-Sunday-Monday: Fourth Round (Women and Men)

-June 6-7: Quarterfinals (Women and Men)

-June 8: Women’s Semifinals

-June 9: Men’s Semifinals

-June 10: Women’s Final

-June 11: Men’s Final

BETTING GUIDE

Defending champion Iga Swiatek is a major moneyline favourite for the ladies’s championship at Roland Garros, in accordance with FanDuel Sportsbook, listed at minus-140. Next up are Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina, each at plus-700. Then comes a giant drop-off: 2021 champion Barbora Krejcikova is listed at plus-2100. In the lads’s bracket, top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz is a small favourite, listed at plus-155, forward of 22-time main champion Novak Djokovic at plus-230, with Daniil Medvedev subsequent at plus-900.

THE NUMBER TO KNOW

35 - Players from the United States within the singles brackets at Roland Garros, essentially the most since 39 men and women from the nation had been within the area in 1995.

THE QUOTE TO KNOW

“I feel pretty confident going into this tournament, regardless of how other people view my game. But none of that matters when I step on the court.” - Coco Gauff, a 19-year-old from Florida who was the runner-up on the French Open final 12 months, her finest outcome at a Grand Slam match.

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