French Open updates | Play starts without COVID restrictions

PARIS (AP) — The Newest on the French Open Grand Slam tennis match (all instances native):

11:10 a.m.

Play within the 12 months’s second Grand Slam tennis match has began on the crimson clay of Roland Garros in Paris, with not one of the COVID-19 restrictions that restricted attendance the previous two years.

The French Open is the game’s solely main championship that begins on a Sunday.

The schedule consists of previous Grand Slam title winners akin to Sloane Stephens, Garbiñe Muguruza and Dominic Thiem.

Essentially the most anticipated match of Day 1 entails Carlos Alcaraz, the 19-year-old Spaniard who’s seeded No. 6 and the youngest participant to interrupt into the highest 10 of the lads’s rankings since Rafael Nadal in 2005.

Alcaraz’s contest towards Juan Ignacio Londero is scheduled to be held final in Court docket Philippe Chatrier, the positioning’s major stadium.

Novak Djokovic, final 12 months’s males’s champion, and 13-time champion Nadal are slated to play their first-round matches on Monday. So is the No. 1-ranked girl, Iga Swiatek, who’s on a 28-match profitable streak.

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