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The sun was beaming on the city of style, the capital of global fashion. And so was the ten-time Roland Garros champion Rafael Nadal as he entertained on kids day. The weather, a little sharp for a spring afternoon, was perhaps a reflection of the form of the top-seed, who’ll look to thread another historic charge. But before the clouds gathered and business kickstarted, when the bounce was still high and that electric carpet of red-brown dirt was playing true, the Spanish superstar teamed with rival Novak Djokovic for a fun matchup against Simona Halep and Alexander Zverev.

That’s where the games ended. The 31-year-old, who has taken ownership of the surface, his beloved clay, is coming into the French Open on a stirring 19-1 winloss record from four tournaments.
Nadal, who has long sealed his authority on the terre battue , or broken earth, opens his campaign against luck loser & world No. 130 Simone Bolelli. The Spaniard, overwhelming favourite to win the title, got some relief from the draw, lodged as he is in the more predictable top half. The seventh-seeded Austrian Dominic Thiem, who ended Nadal’s clay court streak of 21 wins in the Madrid quarterfinals, and secondseeded German Zverev are in the bottom half of the draw. Former winner Djokovic, now ranked 22, one of only two men to have beaten the 31-year-old Nadal here, is also in same half as Thiem and Zverev.


If Nadal is in the hunt for number 11 in Paris, Simona Halep is looking for her first. The amiable 26-year-old, who is aiming to hold on to the top spot in the rankings, will need to fend off five women — Caroline Wozniacki, Garbiñe Muguruza, Elina Svitolina, Karolina Pliskova, and Caroline Garcia -- to retain the top position at the end of her Paris outing. The super-fit Romanian, who opens her tournament against Alison Riske, heads a star-studded draw that includes comeback mom Serena Williams, two-time French Open champion Maria Sharapova and former No.1 Victoria Azarenka, who has fought more off-court battles in the recent past than taking on opposition on a tennis court.Some of the biggest names in tennis will be under the spotlight when the French Open begins Sunday.

Rafael Nadal, the most dominant clay-court player in history, is in search of his 11th championship at Roland Garros, and he enters as the No. 1 seed in the men's draw.
While the seeded players in the women's draw present plenty of intriguing stories, the focus is on Serena Williams' return to Grand Slam tennis.
Despite being the best women's player in history, Williams isn't seeded for the tournament, and she poses a threat to everyone in her path.

Romania's Simona Halep is the No. 1 seed in the women's draw, while Caroline Wozniacki sits on the opposite end of the bracket as the No. 2 seed. Of all the talking points ahead of this French Open, there is probably none greater than the question of whether Serena Williams should have been seeded. Even Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the US President, weighed in this week, claiming that the 23-times Grand Slam singles champion’s non-seeding was “ridiculous” and that “no person should ever be penalised professionally for having a child”.

The reality, however, is not as simple as that. While there are plenty of people in tennis who think that Williams should indeed be seeded here, the Women’s Tennis Association, which represents the players, has historically backed the principle that tournament seedings should be based on the world rankings.

The only tournament in the calendar which does not automatically adopt the women’s rankings positions for their seedings is Wimbledon, which reserves the right to move players up or down its seeding list but does so only occasionally.