French Open 2024: How to watch, live stream, schedule, singles draw, seeding, notable first-round matchups

The 2024 French Open is underway with Novak Djokovic trying to defend his title and win a document twenty fifth Grand Slam trophy. Traditionally, this event has belonged to Rafael Nadal, however the Spanish veteran noticed an early exit and might need probably performed at Roland Garros for the final time. 

Nadal missed final 12 months’s event for the primary time in his profession resulting from harm and, though he hasn’t been 100% wholesome this 12 months, he determined to provide the 2024 French Open a strive. The 22-time Grand Slam champion has received this trophy 14 instances — greater than every other participant in tennis historical past. Nevertheless, he was unable to make a deep run as he fell 3-6, 6-7 (5-7), 3-6 to world No. 4 Alexander Zverev within the first spherical. 

If Nadal retires on the finish of the season, the one one of many Huge Three remaining can be Djokovic, who handed Nadal for many Grand Slam trophies in males’s tennis historical past throughout final 12 months’s French Open. He took care of enterprise this week with a 6-4, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 first-round win over Pierre-Hugues Herbert. Djokovic is now set to tackle Roberto Carballes Baena on Thursday. 

On the ladies’s facet, all eyes are on Iga Swiatek as she chases her fourth title at Roland Garros. She received the French Open in 2023 after beating Karolina Muchova in three units. Muchova won’t be competing this 12 months as she is therapeutic from wrist surgical procedure. Swiatek, the world No. 1, entered this event driving a 12-game successful streak and is contemporary off two titles on the Madrid and Italian Open.

Swiatek cruised by means of the primary spherical with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Leolia Jeanean and is now making ready to tackle Naomi Osaka on Wednesday. One other favourite to win all of it is World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka, who had a promising 2023 marketing campaign and began this Grand Slam season along with her second straight title on the Australian Open.

Right here is the whole lot you’ll want to know concerning the 2024 French Open:

Tips on how to watch the 2024 French Open

Date: Might 26 – June 9, 2024
Location: Roland Garros, Paris, France
TV: NBC, Tennis Channel, Peacock | Stream: fubo (try for free)

Notable males’s second-round matchups:

• No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• No. 2 Jannik Sinner vs. Richard Gasquet
• No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz vs. Jesper De Jong
• No. 4 Alexander Zverev vs. David Goffin
• No. 5 Daniil Medvedev vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• No. 6 Andrey Rublev vs. Pedro Martinez
• No. 7 Casper Ruud vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• No. 8 Hubert Hurkacz vs. Brandon Nakashima
• No. 9 Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Daniel Altmaier
• No. 10 Grigor Dimitrov vs.Fabian Marozsan

Notable girls’s second-round matchups:

• No. 1 Iga Swiatek vs. Naomi Osaka
• No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka vs. Monika Uchijima
• No. 3 Coco Gauff vs. Tamara Zidansek
• No. 4 Elena Rybakina vs. Arantxa Rus
• No. 5 Marketa Vondrousova vs. Katie Volynets
• No. 7 Qinwen Zheng vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• No. 8 Ons Jabeur vs. Camila Osorio
• No. 9 Jelena Ostapenko vs. Clara Tauson
• No. 10 Daria Kasatkina vs.Peyton Stearns

Males’s singles seeds

1. Novak Djokovic
2. Jannik Sinner
3. Carlos Alcaraz
4. Alexander Zverev
5. Daniil Medvedev
6. Andrey Rublev
7. Casper Ruud
8. Hubert Hurkacz
9. Stefanos Tsitsipas
10. Grigor Dimitrov
11. Alex de Minaur
12. Taylor Fritz
13. Holger Rune
14. Tommy Paul
15. Ben Shelton
16. Nicolas Jarry
17. Ugo Humbert
18. Karen Khachanov
19. Alexander Bublik
20. Sebastian Baez
21. Felix Auger-Aliassime
22. Adrian Mannarino
23. Francisco Cerundolo
24. Alejandro Tabilo
25. Frances Tiafoe
26. Tallon Griekspoor
27. Sebastian Korda
28. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
29. Arthur Fils
30. Lorenzo Musetti
31. Mariano Navone
32. Cam Norrie

Girls’s singles seeds

1. Iga Swiatek
2. Aryna Sabalenka
3. Coco Gauff
4. Elena Rybakina
5. Marketa Vondrousova
6. Maria Sakkari
7. Qinwen Zheng
8. Ons Jabeur
9. Jelena Ostapenko
10. Daria Kasatkina
11. Danielle Collins
12. Jasmine Paolini
13. Beatriz Haddad Maia
14. Madison Keys
15. Elina Svitolina
16. Ekaterina Alexandrova
17. Liudmila Samsonova
18. Marta Kostyuk
19. Victoria Azarenka
20. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
21. Carolina Garcia
22. Emma Navarro
23. Anna Kalinskaya
24. Barbora Krejcikova
25. Elise Mertens
26. Katie Boulter
27. Linda Noskova
28. Sorana Cirstea
29. Veronika Kudermetova
30. Dayana Yastremska
31. Leylah Fernandez
32. Katerina Siniakova