The 126th installment of tennis’s French Open is underway in Paris and Carolos Alcaraz is the one to watch.
The 126th installment of tennis’s French Open is underway in Paris—with fans at full capacity for the first time in two years—and it brings with it the possibility of reshaping the sport as we know it.
To be sure: Anybody that deigns to dominate the red clay of Roland Garros likely needs to contend—either directly or indirectly—with the all-time master of that surface, Rafael Nadal. But Nadal enters the tournament still nursing a chronic foot injury and has gone to some pains to lower expectations. “My body is like an old machine,” he told press at the Italian Open in May. “To put this machine on again takes some time.
If Alcaraz, Nadal, and Djokovic aren’t enough, there are also players like Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas, both of them still gunning for their first Slam, to contend with.
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