The All-England Club opens its doors with Carlos Alcaraz starting things on Centre Court before Emma Raducanu’s return
Brenda Fruhvirtova v Mirra Andreeva . Both are 17 and excellent; I’ve not a clue why it’s tucked away last on Court 12, but here we are.To begin with, I reckon a bit of Cristian Garín v Jerry Shang, Nicolas Jarry v Denis Shapovalov and Matteo Arnaldi v Francis Tiafoe .that if there’s enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of trousers, it’s going to be a fine day, and that’s where we are currently. The Met Office, however, think it’ll be cloudy – which is enough for us.
If we arrived at Roland-Garros with the general pattern of things reversed – we knew who was likely to win the women’s event but had not a clue who might take the men’s – we move to In the women’s competition, it seems unlikely Marketa Vondrousova, now seeded six, can repeat last year’s unlikely triumph, while of those above her, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff are still learning the surface; Elena Rybakina, the 2022 champ, is erratic; and, who looks best-placed, still has plenty to prove. Ultimately, the finalists – never mind the winner – winner could be any of them or none of them.
On the men’s side, things look a little less complex, the questions more about who wins the big matches when they inevitably arrive. We don’t know exactly where Novak Djokovic is in his preparations, but do know what it takes to beat him when it counts, and if that happens before the semi-finals, in which he’s seeded to meet Alexander Zverev, it’d be a surprise.v Jannik Sinner epic.
Before that, though, we’ve got all the joy and love of the early rounds: surprise classics, huge shocks and just the enormous sense of affirming wellbeing we get from unstoppable, incessant tennis all day every day. So, in the immortal words of the all-time worst sporting chant and exhortation, “Let’s go!”.A Kovacevic v D Medvedev S Wawrinka v C Broom J Paolina v S Sorribes Tormo
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