Twenty years later, the shadow of Rafa Nadal will definitely not eclipse the rest in Roland Garros. Withdrawn the legend, time for a new era, with its heir Carlos Alcaraz (2nd ATP) defending last year’s title against number 1 Jannik Sinner.
The Spanish and the Italian the last five Grand Slass are distributed and a scenario seems complicated in which another tennis player raises the Musketeer Cup on June 8.
In the last essay before the Grand Slam Parisino Alcaraz, he beat Sinner in the final of Rome after a first set that could be fed for either and a second in which the number 1 evidenced the three months he has been out of the circuit.
In fact, the 1000 Masters of the Italian capital was the first redhead tournament after the agreement for a three -month sanction that reached the world anti -doping agency after two positive controls by an anabolic, attributed to accidental pollution.
ALCARAZ VS SINNER: Auto pilot against a varied palette
“The first tournament after a long period without competition is always difficult. Jannik’s level is incredible and I am quite sure that it will become stronger, the further I get to Roland Garros, the better it will feel,” the Spaniard predicted, which will debut before the Japanese veteran Kei Nishikori (62º).
After the page of the controversy, Sinner, untouchable on a hard track, aspires to extend its reign to the beaten earth and the Wimbledon grass, precisely the double of greats that its great rival composed last year.
Logically, the number 1 autopilot tennis adapts worse to these two surfaces, where the game has more technical and tactical edges, conditions that enter as a glove in the wide blow palette that Alcaraz exhibits in its racket.
Djokovic, low profile
And Novak Djokovic? The Serbian returns to the stage of his last deed, the Olympic gold that he won in Paris-2024 in a suffocating final against Alcaraz. But, completed his perfect record, he has not raised his head again.
In the present Tour of Earth, two eliminations in First Ronda, in Montecarlo and Madrid … although the beast can wake up at any time and more when the tennis is played to five sets and with the filming that allows seven games in two weeks if the final is reached.
If you find the rhythm, nobody will want to cross the current number six, which will compare in Paris without a technician after separating last week from Andy Murray.
Something happens with IgA
In the female team, IgA Swiatek’s downturn, winner of four of the last five editions (2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024) in Roland Garros, opens the deck of candidates to the title.
The 23 -year -old Polish has definitely lost its way. Of his implacable tennis of seasons prior to a player full of doubts that multiplies the gestures of frustration. In 2025 he has not raised any trophy and after his elimination in the third round of Rome, where he defended the title, he fell to the fifth position of the WTA.
“In 2025 I have had many high and low. Hard work to be prepared. I know that my game is prepared, I just have to find how to explode better,” he said Thursday at the draw of the paintings.
With the queen of the earth in a vulnerable situation; The World 1 number 1 Aryna Sabalenka, the Italian Jasmine Paolini (4th), finalist last year and winner in Rome or the American Coco Gauff (2nd), who played the duel for the title in 2022, will try to take advantage of the power vacuum.
“With a little luck I will reach the Roland Garros final, the third may be the defeated,” Gauff said after falling in Rome against Paolini, his second consecutive defeat in a final after losing in Madrid against Sabalenka.
Without losing sight of the Russian Mira Andreeva (6th), 18 years old and directed by Conchita Martínez, capable of raising this course the titles in Dubai and Indian Wells.
