Opponent Plíšková will emerge from the qualification in the first round, in the second round she may run into the winner of the 2017 tournament Jelena Ostapenková from Latvia. Kvitová will enter the tournament, which she missed last year due to an injury, by a match with the home team Océane Dodinová. In the round of 16, she could play with German player Angelique Kerber.
Vondroušová, who lost the final to Australian Ashleigh Barty last year, caught this year from Šwiateková kanra on a hard surface in the Prague team exhibition. World number one Barty did not come to defend the title this year due to coronavirus.
Twenty-two tournament players, Karolína Muchová, managed to heal an injured muscle from the recent US Open, and in the first round she is the American Christina McHale. Barbora Strýcová is among those involved and will wait for a player from the qualification at the age of thirty-two. In the third round, she could challenge the American Serena Williams.
Kateřina Siniaková will play with Lauren Davisová from the USA, Marie Bouzková with Estonian Kaia Kanepiová, Kristýna Plíšková with Slovak Viktória Kužmová and Barbora Krejčíková will play Serbian Nina Stojanovičová.
So far, the only Czech representative in men’s singles, Jiří Veselý, will wait for the opponent from the qualification. This could theoretically be his compatriot Tomáš Macháč, if he manages the final third round on Friday. Tereza Martincová will also play it.
Twelve-time winner Roland Garros Spaniard Rafael Nadal will face Yegor Gerasimov of Belarus. World number one Novak Djokovic, who suffered his only defeat this year at the recent US Open due to disqualification on hitting the referee with a ball, will play the tournament with Mikael Ymer from Sweden.
The moose prepared two spicy fights. The recent winner of the US Open, the Austrian Dominic Thiem, is the Croatian Croat Marina Čilič, and the former first world player Brit Andy Murray will challenge the winner of the 2015 French Open, the Swiss Stan Wawrinka.
The top ten Belinda Bencicová from Switzerland and the twentieth man of the ranking Milos Raonic from Canada withdrew from the tournament at the last moment.
The clay grandslam was originally scheduled to begin on May 24, but was postponed due to coronavirus. The new Paris tournament will take place from September 27 to October 11. While the US Open was played without fans, the organizers of Roland Garros will let the spectators into the complex, but due to the spread of coronavirus, there will be a maximum of a thousand of them a day.
We are preparing details.
• Women’s Singles • |
Czech tennis players in the 1st round: |
Kar. Plíšková (CZE) – qualifier |
Kvitova (7-CR) – Dodinová (Fr.) |
Vondrousova (15-CR) – Šwiateková (Pol.) |
Muchova (22-CZ) – McHaleová (USA) |
Uncle (32-CZ) – qualifier |
Siniaková (CZE) – Davisová (USA) |
Bouzková (CZE) – Kanepiová (EST) |
Krejčíková (CZE) – Stojanovičová (SRB) |
Kr. Plíšková (CZE) – Koviničová (Montenegro) |
complete lot of women’s singles |
• Men’s Singles • |
Czech tennis players in the 1st round: |
Veselý (CZE) – qualifier |
complete lot of men’s singles |
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