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French Open 2023: Novak Djokovic to start out hunt for twenty third main title, Iga Swiatek aiming for third triumph

Paris [France], May 27 (ANI): Serbian tennis nice Novak Djokovic will begin his quest for a file twenty third Grand Slam title within the absence of Spanish star and ‘King of Clay’ Rafael Nadal because the French Open 2023 kickstarts from the enduring Roland Garros Stadium from Sunday.

The French Open major draw begins on Sunday.

Djokovic nevertheless has to beat an impediment within the type of younger, rising Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz.

Alcaraz, at the moment the world primary in ATP Rankings is pitted in the identical half because the world quantity three Djokovic, as per Olympics.com.

Last 12 months, the 2 tennis stars crossed paths on the ATP Masters 1000 Madrid semifinal in Spain. In three units, Alcaraz defeated the two-time French Open champion.

Former US Open champion and quantity two Daniil Medvedev and up-and-coming Denmark star Holger Rune, positioned at quantity six are a number of the gamers to be careful for. World quantity 4 and 2022 French Open finalist Casper Ruud may be an enormous risk.

Nadal, the final 12 months’s champion, who has received a file 14 titles on the clay courts in Paris, will probably be lacking out on the match as a result of an harm for the primary time since 2004.

Nadal and Djokovic, with 22 tennis main titles every, are at the moment tied for essentially the most variety of Grand Slam titles received by a males’s singles participant.

Iga Swiatek of Poland, the defending girls’s singles champion and a former Youth Olympic gold medalist, will try to develop into the primary lady since Serena Williams to win three French Open championships. Swiatek received the 2020 title regardless of being unseeded and in addition beat younger American sensation Coco Gauff within the finals final 12 months.

Aryna Sabalenka, the Australian Open champion, and Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina from Kazakhstan would be the major challengers to Iga Swiatek at Roland Garros in 2023.

Other distinguished contenders embody former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic, who received the 2021 French Open, and Gauff, the finalist from the earlier 12 months.

The solely Indian participant within the 2023 French Open singles class is Ankita Raina, an Asian Games bronze medalist.

Raina, the 212th-ranked tennis participant on the planet, received over Emeline Dartron of France within the first spherical of the qualifiers 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 earlier than shedding to Moyuka Uchijima of Japan within the second spherical 7(7)-6(1), 6-1.

In males’s doubles, the in-form Rohan Bopanna will companion together with his Australian companion Matthew Ebden. Bopanna had just lately risen to world quantity 9 amongst males’s doubles opponents in ATP Rankings.

Rohan Bopanna received the blended doubles title at French Open 2017 with Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski. His participation in blended doubles this 12 months is just not confirmed but.

In the lads’s doubles class, Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni, an all-Indian workforce, can even compete.

The match will conclude on June 11.

French Open 2023 schedule-May 28, Sunday: First spherical – males’s and girls’s singles-May 29, Monday: First spherical – males’s and girls’s singles-May 30, Tuesday: First spherical – males’s and girls’s singles; begin of doubles competitions-May 31, Wednesday: Second spherical – males’s and girls’s singles;-June 1, Thursday: Second spherical – males’s and girls’s singles;-June 2, Friday: Third spherical – males’s and girls’s singles-June 3, Saturday: Third spherical – males’s and girls’s singles-June 4, Sunday: Fourth spherical – males’s and girls’s singles-June 5, Monday: Fourth spherical – males’s and girls’s singles-June 6, Tuesday: Quarter-finals – males’s and girls’s singles-June 7, Wednesday: Quarter-finals – males’s and girls’s singles-June 8, Thursday: Mixed doubles closing; girls’s semi-finals-June 9, Friday: Men’s semi-finals-June 10, Saturday: Women’s singles closing; males’s doubles final-June 11, Sunday: Men’s singles closing; girls’s doubles closing. (ANI)

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