Roland Garros / French Open 2024 [Women] - Grand Slam

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DATE: May 26 - June 9, 2024
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: €49,922,000
FIELD SIZE: 128
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Iga Swiatek

Seeds:

1. Iga Swiatek
2. Aryna Sabalenka
3. Coco Gauff
4. Elena Rybakina
5. Marketa Vondrousova
6. Maria Sakkari
7. Zheng Qinwen
8. Ons Jabeur
9. Jelena Ostapenko
10. Daria Kasatkina
11. Danielle Collins
12. Jasmine Paolini
13. Beatriz Haddad Maia
14. Madison Keys
15. Elina Svitolina
16. Ekaterina Alexandrova
17. Liudmila Samsonova
18. Marta Kostyuk
19. Victoria Azarenka
20. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
21. Caroline Garcia
22. Emma Navarro
23. Anna Kalinskaya
24. Barbora Krejcikova
25. Elise Mertens
26. Katie Boulter
27. Linda Noskova
28. Sorana Cirstea
29. Veronika Kudermetova
30. Dayana Yastremska
31. Leylah Fernandez
32. Katerina Siniakova

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The Tournament:

The French Open (French: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and venue are named after the French aviator Roland Garros. The French Open is the premier clay court championship in the world and the only Grand Slam tournament currently held on this surface. It is chronologically the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments, occurring after the Australian Open and before Wimbledon and the US Open. Until 1975, the French Open was the only major tournament not played on grass. Between the seven rounds needed for a championship, the clay surface characteristics (slower pace, higher bounce), and the best-of-five-set men's singles matches, the French Open is widely regarded as the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world.

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About Paris:

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents as of 1 January 2023 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the fourth-most populated city in the European Union as well as the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its early and extensive system of street lighting, in the 19th century, it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world.

The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants on January 1, 2023, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, in 2022, Paris was the city with the ninth-highest cost of living in the world.

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Jess Pegula has withdrawn from Roland Garros, saying she has just return to practicing and is still not 100%.
Jabeur is now the 8th seed
Alexandrova is the 16th seed
Siniakova is the last seed
 
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Roland Garros draw

The top half of the draw will begin Monday/Tuesday
The bottom half of the draw will begin Sunday/Monday
 
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Projected QFs by seedings.

Swiatek (1) vs Vondrousova (5)
Sabalenka (2) vs Sakkari (6)
Guaff (3) vs Jabeur (8)
(4) Rybakina vs Zheng (7)
 
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First seeded casualty is Veronika, the 29th seed who exits in straights to Bouzkova
 

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Naomi in trouble, Had a doub break lead in the decider and is now back on serve trying to force a TB.
 

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Wind can swirl around on Chatrier as Osaka is finding out now,.she needs more control of her shots
5 straight games for the Italian Bronzetti
Osaka serving to stay in the match, remember Osaka has never made it passed the 3rd rd at Roland Garros
 
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An up and down performance from Osaka and she got lucky in the 3rd set she wins the 3rd set 75
 

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Still here and Clara Tauson on to round two after efficient play - but what about the noise - terrible
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Again for the 35th time in her career Lesia Tsurenko retired mid match, she also retired in her match in Rome?
Its the `13th time she retired in her 1st match of an event? retired 5-6 to Donna Vekic
I raised this question about her a month ago, apparently the WTA turns a blind eye to her retirements?
 
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Again for the 35th time in her career Lesia Tsurenko retired mid match, she also retired in her match in Rome?
Its the `13th time she retired in her 1st match of an event? retired 5-6 to Donna Vekic
I raised this question about her a month ago, apparently the WTA turns a blind eye to her retirements?
Yes, they must be. @Front242 is entirely correct that she is building a case for match fixing. No one is that injured all the time. Besides, I thought the ITF was levying fines for people who retired in R1 of a slam w/ some existing injury instead of withdrawing and letting a LL play.
 
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Yes, they must be. @Front242 is entirely correct that she is building a case for match fixing. No one is that injured all the time. Besides, I thought the ITF was levying fines for people who retired in R1 of a slam w/ some existing injury instead of withdrawing and letting a LL play.
To my knowledge Keli she has received no fines from ITF, again this is a continuing case from both the WTA and ITF turning a Blind Eye
 

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24th seed Barbora Krejcikova again struggling in her 1st round match, she nearly received a bagel in the first set, fought back to force a TB for the 1st set and lost it 76 (3) to Golubic and now down a break in the early stages of the 2nd set
Krejcikova breaks back ii is 4all 2nd set
 
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