The Ders of Garcia and Gasquet, the promises of sons, the weak female hopes … What to expect French on the? – release

Will there be tricolor representatives in the second week of Roland-Garros this year? The skeins of draw Performed on Thursday May 22 does not really allow it to be sure. We hoped for little tortuous paths on the male side, in which all hopes rest. The French were all except spoiled, but there is still something to hope for.

Starting with Arthur son. At 21, The Ile -de -France This year has shown that he had the profile of the possible successor of Yannick Noah, the last Frenchman to have raised the Musketeer Cup in 1983. The now 14th world displayed real regularity at a high level, cumulating three quarters of the Master 1000 (Indian Wells, Miami, Monte-Carlo), the most prestigious tournaments after the Grandsmems. It was also nothing to hang the Alcaraz scalp in early April on Monegasque land, before losing in three sleeves. After two entry eliminations during his first two Roland, he said he tackled his third with « More experience » and a game « More and more solid ».

Son will not be alone in hoping to appear on the second week program. Behind, out of huge sensation, there are four or five that they can claim it. Even if the draw has made the case arduous for everyone. Second best classified French, Ugo Humbert (22nd) must a priori go through the former world number 1 Daniil Medvedev in the 3rd round. Even if he has progressed on the surface, the left -hander is not the most comfortable on clay. But this is the same problem for Russian. It remains to know the real state of form of Humbert, the last weeks of which have been spent managing a painful wrist.

For the other rising star, Giovanni Mpeshi Perricard (21), it’s even more complicated. Big server, but frankly not at ease on the ocher, his ambitions will necessarily be limited. Especially since after an exceptional 2024 end of the 2024 season, « Gio » draws a little more in 2025 (6 victories, 9 defeats). As long as the slender French, 32nd worldwide, came to the end of the Belgian Zizou Bergs in a first round which promises to be trashy, it will need, except cataclysm at the top of tennis, cross iron with Carlos Alcaraz, there too in the third round.

The good surprise of the fortnight will come Alexandre Müller. Having entered the top 40 for the first time this year, at 28, the southerner, carrying Crohn’s disease, arrives Porte d’Auteuil in full confidence, after a thunderous start to the season, punctuated by a first career title in Hong Kong and a final in Rio after having released the Local Crack Joao Fonseca. Above all, he offered himself a few days earlier, in Hamburg, the most beautiful victory of his career against the world’s number 3 and finalist of Roland Garros in 2024, Alexander Zverev. But the computer did not spoil it in the draw: it will have to work from the start, facing another rising star, the Czech Jakub Mensik, 19th, which started its 2025 exercise even stronger than Müller, with in particular a Master 1000 in Miami gleaned in the final against Djokovic.

And as with any Grand Chelem tournament, we are not immune to a big shine, we can only advise the public too much to go and take a look at Corentin Moutet. Already for the atmosphere in the spans, that The showman should help heat. Himself in eighth last year, and author of a good season on earth, Moutet has the profile to bring down Novak Djokovic. As long as the two are in the second round, his game while in variation could annoy the Serbian, 37, whose start to the season is far from his past standards. To see how his joints will live the cushioning, lobs from the bottom of the short and other incessant nets.

On the French side, we feared insurmountable posters, as the Blue has been dying since the start of the season, in the end, they avoided all the big pieces. Still, with a single player in the top 100, it will not be necessary to hope for much. Especially since the leader, Varvara Gracheva (62nd), eighth finalist in 2024, is the only one to have inherited a complex start, opposed to the American head of 31 Sofia Kenin, winner of the Australian Open 2020.

The objective, as difficult as it may be, will first be to place a representative in the second round. And this year, no Franco-French duel on the menu to make sure to avoid zero pointed. The good news is that apart from Gracheva, the draw turned out to be extremely mild for the rest of the contingent.

Diane Parry is undoubtedly the other best blue chance. The local, resident of Boulogne, will leave favorite against the American Montgomery, 20, an opponent less well classified than (116th). In ambush, the eternal second knives that are Chloé Paquet (119th) and Léolia Jeanjean (100th) also inherited an affordable entry into the matters. It should not go much further for the first city, which would see on its way the number 2 series, Coco Gauff.

Otherwise, why not bet on a succession of the next generation, embodied by Tiantoa Sarah Rakotanga Rajaonah, 19 years old (244th). The native of Madagascar, which is about to discover the Paris tournament, has arms to get away with the Spanish Leyre Romero Gormaz, 150th in the standings, and just out of the qualifiers.

Finally, whatever his journey, we should not miss the der’de Caroline Garcia. For his last round of the courts in Roland, While she has just announced her next retreat, the former world number 4 fell back into the WTA abyss (144th) can hope to spend a few days in Paris, as she can say goodbye to the French public this Monday, May 26, after her match against the American Bernarda Pera, 81st.

Speaking of farewells, we forgot: he will surely not go very far, but not impossible to miss the last entry into the running of Richard Gasquet. For his latest major, the Biterrois challenges Terence Atmane and could afford goodbye of prestige, in the event of a victory, against Jannik Sinner in the next round. Unless a last miracle is 37 years old.