The 2025 French Open starts Sunday with top-ranked Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka as the end seeds.
The males’s and girls’s attracts for this yr’s 2d Grand Slam event have been introduced on Thursday.
Defending champions Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek are seeded 2d and 5th, 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 identify towards France’s Arthur Rinderknech.
Sinner is 16-5 at Roland Garros after achieving the semifinals remaining yr. 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 identify protection towards Kei Nishikori. The 22-year-old Spaniard is in search of his 5th Grand Slam trophy.
Germany’s Alexander Zverev is seeded 3rd, adopted by means of 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 in search of his 25th main identify, which might smash a tie with Margaret Court for probably the most by means of a person or girl. Djokovic faces Mackenzie McDonald within the first spherical.
Finishing out the top-10 seeds at the males’s aspect 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 towards 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 report to this point this yr together with runner-up finishes on clay in Rome and Madrid.
Jessica Pegula is seeded 3rd and Rome champ Jasmine Paolini of Italy is fourth, adopted by means of 23-year-old Swiatek of Poland, who hasn’t reached a last since profitable her fourth French Open remaining yr. Swiatek opens towards Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova.
Russian teen Mirra Andreeva is the No. 6 seed, adopted by means of Madison Keys, China’s Qinwen Zheng, Emma Navarro and No. 10 Paula Badosa of Spain.
–Field Level Media