Top seed and defending champion Iga Swiatek set up a second round showdown with former world number one Naomi Osaka following a straight sets destruction on Monday of the French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean .
Rafael Nadal will start his French Open return - and expected farewell to the tournament he has dominated - with a first-round match against German fourth seed Alexander Zverev.
Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz are some of the top men entered in the 2024 French Open. The season’s second Grand Slam tournament begins on the red clay courts of Roland Garros on Sunday. The field is led by the top-ranked Djokovic, who has won three of his men's-record 24 Grand Slam titles in Paris, including a year ago. Alcaraz owns two major championships and lost to Djokovic in last year's semifinals at the French Open. Nadal is unseeded after missing most of the past two years but he owns a record 14 titles at Roland Garros.
Defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic said a confrontation with a spectator was the spark he "needed" to hold off Alexei Popyrin and avoid a shock second-round exit.