Roland Garros 2024: Popcorn matches from the males’s songs draw
The Roland Garros males’s songs draw has actually created a myriad of popcorn matches, that consist of 14-time champ Rafael Nadal and previous globe No.1 Andy Murray.
And we, at Tennishead, have actually shortlisted our choices for you to look into in the coming days:
Alexander Zverev (4) vs Rafael Nadal
No Roland Garros draw really feels full without the previously mentioned Rafael Nadal, and this might be his last look at the competition where he has actually discovered a lot success.
However, the Spaniard will certainly need to conquer the probabilities if he is to stay clear of a preliminary loss at the competition for the very first time in his profession, after attracting 4th seed Alexander Zverev.
Nadal elevating the strength prior to the Zverev competition????#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/ckTEypHQmW
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 23, 2024
Zverev is coming off the rear of winning his 2nd Italian Open title recently, and will certainly be among the favourites for the title in Paris.
The last time that Nadal played Zverev remained in the 2022 Roland Garros semi-final, when the German endured a significant ankle joint injury in the last phases of the 2nd collection.
Andy Murray vs Stan Wawrinka
Andy Murray last completed at Roland Garros in 2020, and it resembled he would certainly never ever go back to the competition once more after harming his ankle joint back in March.
However, the Brit shows up to have actually made great progression and has actually gone back to the matchcourt in current weeks in advance of the Paris significant.
Back in 2020, Murray endured a preliminary loss to fellow three-time Grand Slam champ Stan Wawrinka, and he will certainly be intending to stay clear of the very same destiny this time around round.
Andy Murray’s last 3 challengers at #RolandGarros:
2017: Stan Wawrinka (SF)
2020: Stan Wawrinka (R1)
2024: Stan Wawrinka (R1)???????????????????????????????????? @andy_murray @stanwawrinka pic.twitter.com/nbOca07Fu9
— Tennis TELEVISION (@Tennis TELEVISION) May 23, 2024
Wawrinka is a previous Roland Garros champ (2015 ), however has actually just won 2 of his 7 matches on the clay this year.
This will certainly be their 22nd general conference and 4th at Roland Garros, with Murray leading the general and Wawrinka in advance in the competition head-to-head.
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Ugo Humbert (17) vs Lorenzo Sonego
As constantly there will certainly be a great deal of assumption on the rear of home gamers at Roland Garros, and none much more so than French No.1 Ugo Humbert.
However, Humbert has actually not been handed a very easy opener versus Lorenzo Sonego, that has actually gotten to the 2nd week two times at Roland Garros.
This consisted of in 2015, when Sonego really defeat Humbert en path to getting to the last-16 in Paris.
That being stated, Humbert does have the newest success in their head-to-head that began the clay of Monte Carlo back in April.
The Humbert Army completely voice????
After 2 hours and 51 mins, @HumbertUgo retaliates his loss to Sonego right here in 2015 with a 7-5 3-6 6-1 win!#RolexMonteCarloMasters pic.twitter.com/lR3HzUdEJH
— Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters (@ROLEXMCMASTERS) April 11, 2024
Although Roland Garros is Humbert’s home Grand Slam, the Frenchman has just ever before won among his 6 primary draw matches at the competition and will certainly be intending to damage that pattern in 2024.
Holger Rune (13) vs Dan Evans
With the males’s songs draw at Roland Garros relatively much more open than ever before, you would certainly assume Holger Rune would certainly be among those looking at up a capacity Grand Slam development.
However, his type of late recommends that might not be the instance after falling short to win greater than 2 successive matches throughout the whole clay court period and dropping outdoors the leading 10.
The Dane will certainly require to refind some type versus the unforeseeable Dan Evans, that is likewise trying to find some type of his very own.
???? @rolandgarros primary draw????
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Dan Evans vs Holger Rune@andy_murray vs Stan Wawrinka#BackTheBrits???????? pic.twitter.com/ke9AWTqH5H— LTA (@the_LTA) May 23, 2024
Despite shedding his previous 6 successive primary ATP excursion matches, Evans is the type of gamer that can have an innovation lacked no place and what far better area to do it than at Roland Garros!
Casper Ruud (7) vs Jakub Mensik
Casper Ruud has actually gotten to the Roland Garros last in both of the past 2 years, just experiencing losses at the competition to Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
The Norwegian has actually currently thrilled on the clay in 2024, getting to the Monte Carlo Masters last and gaining the largest title of his profession in Barcelona.
It will certainly be a brand-new experience for Ruud this year when playing interesting Czech teen Jakub Mensik in the preliminary, that will certainly be making his launching at the competition.
Mensik made his development on the elderly circuit by getting to the 3rd round of the United States Open and the last of the Qatar Open on difficult courts, however just how will he change to the clay?
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