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The French Open 2024 is now underway as the world’s best players battle it out on the famous clay courts of Roland Garros and how to watch Roland Garros Paris live streams. Novak Djokovic and Iga Swiatek are the defending champions but there are a whole host of contenders at the second Grand Slam of 2024.

Last year Djokovic took full advantage of Rafa Nadal’s absence in Paris as he lifted his third French Open title courtesy of a dominant victory over clay-court specialist Casper Ruud. However, this year, the Serbian has struggled to find his best form and could face a tough task to defend his crown.

Jannik Sinner is the form player of 2024 and will be confident of going beyond the quarter-finals for the first time in his career, while Stefanos Tsitsipas looked superb as he won the Monte Carlo Masters. Then there are the likes of Indian Wells winner Carlos Alcaraz, two-time French Open finalist Ruud and of course, the great Rafa Nadal.

World No. 1 and French Open top seed Novak Djokovic will be looking to arrest an unusually poor recent run of form as the Serbian star gets his Roland Garros 2024 campaign underway today against Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Despite having yet to win at Roland Garros and struggling for form since winning Indian Wells earlier in the year, Carlos Alcaraz will start as favourite as arguably the most fearsome clay courter on tour. The Spaniard is now fitter after running out of gas in the last four against Novak Djokovic last year, but injuries early in the clay court season have stymied his form out on the dirt.

Defending champion Djokovic – who plays Herbert today, May 28 – has also struggled for form in 2024 and has split with coach Goran Ivanisevic. The 37-year-old Serb remains a potent opponent on any surface and is still world number one, but is without a tournament win in 2024, he faces French wildcard Pierre-Hugues Herbert in round one.

The other big danger, Jannik Sinner, has also struggled for fitness in the past month. By mid-April the Italian had won three tournaments on tour, including the Australian Open and the Miami Open Masters event, but he may struggle to replicate that early-season form. Sinner and Alcaraz are in the same half of the draw.

Alexander Zverev could take advantage, the German looking imperious on serve in winning the Italian Open, the final Masters event before Roland Garros, and jumping above Daniil Medvedev to become world number four.

Zverev's first round opponent could hardly have been more symbolic: Rafael Nadal. The Mallorcan had won at Roland Garros a record 14 times, holding a staggering 112-3 win-loss record, but injuries have blighted recent seasons to the point where defeat to Zverev in the first round of his favourite Grand Slam may be his last. There wasn't a dry eye in the house as he said what could be his final au revoir.

One of the now four to beat Nadal, Stan Wawrinka in the 2015 final, beat fellow former major winner Andy Murray in another mouthwatering first round encounter.

For the women, defending champion Iga Swiatek is again the favourite. The Polish world number one has won three of the last four tournaments at Roland Garros and is look for her third successive title on the Parisian clay in 2024. Also the champion at Indian Wells, Madrid and Rome, Swiatek is the player to beat, with movement unmatched on this surface. She has a tough draw, though, with a potential second round opponent the returning major winner Naomi Osaka, recently back from maternity leave.

Aryna Sabalenka will be Swiatek's main challenger. The Belarusian won the Australian Open in January to confirm her major pedigree.

Yet to win a single trophy won so far this year -- the first time since 2018 that the 37-year-old has reached Paris without doing so -- Djokovic looked far from his best in his three-set defeat to Tomas Machac at the final of the Geneva Open last week.

He now faces 33-year-old Herbert, a French wildcard entrant and doubles specialist who is likely to have the home crowd vociferously backing his cause.

When it comes to the women’s draw, Swiatek is the heavy favorite after winning the tournament three times in the last four years. The world number one’s game is perfectly suited to clay and she will hope to add to her haul of four Grand Slam titles.

However, there are plenty of challengers including Elena Rybakina who triumphed in Stuttgart after beating Swiatek in the semi-finals. Coco Gauff was a finalist in Paris two years ago and now has a Slam to her name, while Aryna Sabalenka will hope she can rediscover the form that saw her triumph earlier this year at the Australian Open.

The French Open is now underway and yesterday in Paris saw comfortable victories for a host of top seeds. World number one Novak Djokovic cruised past home hope Pierre-Hugues Herbert in straight sets; Aryna Sabalenka dropped just three games against teenager Erika Andreeva; and Elena Rybakina beat Belgium's Greet Minnen 6-2 6-3.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, Alize Cornet's playing career came to an end as she lost 6-2 6-1 to Chinese seventh seed Zheng Qinwen at her final tournament, while Dan Evans and Katie Boulter both exited to leave Britain without any representatives in the main singles draw.

Today sees the start of the second round and there are some intriguing matches, including top seed Iga Swiatek playing four-time major champion Naomi Osaka and Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner facing home favorite Richard Gasquet.

There are also a number of seeds in action, including Carlos Alcaraz, Andrey Rublev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Ons Jabeur and Coco Gauff.

Novak Djokovic is the defending French Open champion on the men’s side, while Iga Świątek is the defending women’s champ. All-time French Open title holder Rafael Nadal is expected to make his final appearance at Roland Garros this year, as the Spanish star has hinted that he may retire at the end of the season.

Coco Gauff completes the top three, who stand apart from the rest of the pack. The American fell in the Melbourne final to Sabalenka but will channel her US Open 2023 victory to try to win on the clay. Former French Open champion Jeļena Ostapenko could also be an outside bet – the Latvian has won two singles tournaments on tour this season to return to the top 10.

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