The 2025 French Open begins Sunday with top-ranked Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka as the highest seeds.
The lads’s and ladies’s attracts for this 12 months’s second Grand Slam event had been introduced on Thursday.
Defending champions Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek are seeded second and fifth, respectively, for the clay-court main at Roland Garros in Paris.
Sinner, who returned from a doping suspension this month and misplaced to Alcaraz in Sunday’s Italian Open ultimate, will start his quest for his first French Open title in opposition to France’s Arthur Rinderknech.
Sinner is 16-5 at Roland Garros after reaching the semifinals final 12 months. The 23-year-old Italian is a three-time Grand Slam winner with titles on the U.S. Open in 2024 and Australian Open in 2024 and 2025.
Alcaraz will open his title protection in opposition to Kei Nishikori. The 22-year-old Spaniard is on the lookout for his fifth Grand Slam trophy.
Germany’s Alexander Zverev is seeded third, adopted by American Taylor Fritz, Britain’s Jack Draper and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic.
Djokovic, who turns 38 on Thursday, is a three-time champion at Roland Garros and is on the lookout for his twenty fifth main title, which might break a tie with Margaret Courtroom for essentially the most by a person or lady. Djokovic faces Mackenzie McDonald within the first spherical.
Ending out the top-10 seeds on the lads’s facet are No. 7 Casper Ruud of Norway, No. 8 Lorenzo Musetti of Italy, No. 9 Alex de Minaur of Australia and No. 10 Holger Rune of Denmark.
Sabalenka, who reached the semifinals in Paris in 2023, opens in opposition to Russia’s Kamilla Rakhimova. The 27-year-old Belarusian is a three-time Grand Slam winner: Australian Open (2023, 2024) and U.S. Open (2024).
No. 2 seed Coco Gauff, a 2022 French Open finalist, faces Australian Olivia Gadecki within the first spherical. Gauff, 21, has a 24-8 file to this point this 12 months together with runner-up finishes on clay in Rome and Madrid.
Jessica Pegula is seeded third and Rome champ Jasmine Paolini of Italy is fourth, adopted by 23-year-old Swiatek of Poland, who hasn’t reached a ultimate since successful her fourth French Open final 12 months. Swiatek opens in opposition to Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova.
Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva is the No. 6 seed, adopted by Madison Keys, China’s Qinwen Zheng, Emma Navarro and No. 10 Paula Badosa of Spain.
–Subject Stage Media
