French Open 2022

When is the 2022 French Open?

The 2022 French Open starts on May 22 and will end on June 5. There will be a total of 15 categories in the upcoming edition.

When is the draw for the 2022 French Open?

The 2022 French Open draw will be released on Thursday, May 19 at 6.45 pm local time.

The draws for the men's and women's singles tournaments comprise 104 direct entries, 16 qualifiers and eight wild cards. Each draw will have 32 seeded players.

What is the date and schedule for the 2022 French Open?

The qualifying rounds of the tournament are scheduled to be held from May 16-20.

The main draw starts on May 22 and will go on until June 5.

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Men's Singles ->

With Djokovic and Alcaraz, the two most in-form players in the world set to be seeded 1 and 6 respectively the draw will attract much interest. Nadal will be 5th seed, still scratching about hoping to keep his foot in the hunt.

After not dropping a set in winning the Masters 1000, Djokovic is favourite in betting with the top 3 currently lining up as 7/4 vs 2/1 vs 11/4

Women's Singles ->

With 2021 throwing up the most random list of semi-finalists even for a WTA draw, this time it looks like Swiatek "should" prevail with the narrative being if someone can make it a contest with only WTA 26 Samsonova giving her a match in recent times.

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Feliciano Lopez fails in his bid to extend his already-a-record 79 consecutive Grand Slams to 80 by losing in qualifying.

Yep so it's Djokovic, Alcaraz, Nadal, Zverev all in the same top half

Good draw for Tsits

yerwanthere123

Lordy! Which one makes the final. Think it's between Djokovic and Alcaraz, with Nadal losing to the former in the QF's.

Haven't looked at the whole draw yet but Osaka-Anisimova is an interesting opener. Anisimova will be well up for a second consecutive grand slam scalp.

Bit of a pity in a way in that the Top Half Semi Final of the men's is very very likely to provide the winner so it's sort of like the de facto final

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119087471#Comment_119087471

Or as sometimes happens, the finalist from that side has had a tough quarter and semi and is picked off easily by the fresh finalist from the other half.

Royale with Cheese

I've tickets for day two of the fourth round which I'm guessing will be the bottom half? Absolutely sick with that draw.

Ooh I just checked there and last year it was the top half of the draw that played on that day. All hope is not lost yet.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119087633#Comment_119087633

But Tsits has a pretty bad record against the top half contenders

Girly Gal

Djokovic

Nadal, Alcaraz

Tsitsipas

In that order, Tsitsipas only makes list as he is most likely from his half to make final

Swiatek, is the clear favourite for the women's, but, virtually anything can happen in the women's draw.

whiterebel

Thiem in all sorts of trouble here against Dallien. No first serve, forehand return all over the place. At 28 I wonder will he ever get back to the top.

yerwanthere123

Terrible result from Jabeur, especially after winning Madrid and reaching the Rome final. Not as if Linette even has big clay pedigree either. Jabeur still very shaky at the slams.

Sad to see Thiem still being winless this year, needs to drop down to challenger level to try and get a bit of form going.

Royale with Cheese

Alize Lim appears to have kept her job 😕

poppy37

That was an absolute disaster for Ons and Kanepi pulled her usual giant killing act by beating Garbine, although the way Garbine has been playing recently it wasn’t a big surprise. I hope this isn’t a sign that the women’s draw is going to fall apart again this year.

Sloane Stephens, a member of the players council spoke after her match saying it’s the right decision to take the points off Wimbledon. Easy for her to say when she’s only defending second round points. Rennae Stubbs has claimed 80% of the players disagree with the decision.

dominatinMC

What the hell is going on with Them? I know he had a bad injury and was out for some time, but his form and attitude has been horrendous since he's returned.

Although not a fair comparison, Nadal was contemplating retirement last winter after yet another career-threatening injury, and he came back to win the AO. Thiem seems to be at the other end of the scale.

Royale with Cheese

And there goes Osaka. No doubt you won't see her again until the US hardcourt season starts.

yerwanthere123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119101602#Comment_119101602

https://twitter.com/josemorgado/status/1528707807066963968?t=RQ-DOHatGybnUTxk8CJZXQ&s=19

There's our answer I guess. Osaka the part time player is now worried about points apparently.

Royale with Cheese

I'd say her eyes lit up when she saw the news about the ranking points being removed, I don't think there's another player on tour who that decision suited more.

josip

Parry takes Krejcikova to a 3rd set

Floppybits

I'd say Osaka is loving the situation with Wimbledon, gives her the excuse now to take a few weeks off (not that she hasn't already), get back to the states and get ready for hard court. I'm not too sure she wants to be out there playing tennis and that at the moment she is just fulfilling contractual and sponsorship obligations and as soon as they end then that will see her stepping away.

Floppybits

Krejcikova struggling at the moment but should win this one.

Floppybits

Parry has a lovely one handed backhand. Rare seeing a woman hit the one handed backhand nowadays

whiterebel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119102398#Comment_119102398

It is a lovely shot, one of only 2 in the top 100 according to the commentators.

HeidiHeidi

Proper slugfest between Norrie and Guinard.... I think they said they're 45 mins in and it's only 4-2!

josip

A bientot Krejcikova

Floppybits

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119102692#Comment_119102692

I knew it was rare but didn't realise it was practically extinct. Trying to think who the other woman is that uses the one handed backhand.

whiterebel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119103002#Comment_119103002

Took them ages to think of it during the match. I didn't catch the name when they said it.

Floppybits

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119102815#Comment_119102815

I don't know what it is about Norrie but it's hard to believe he is in the top 10 in the world. He just doesn't look or play like a top 10 player.

poppy37

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119103032#Comment_119103032

Was it Golubic by any chance, she’s the only one that comes to mind. I didn’t know Parry had a one handed backhand, I don’t think I have ever seen her play. I used watch Suarez Navarro purely to watch her backhand, a thing of beauty in full flight.

It was tough to see Krejcikova fall apart like that today, it was obvious she was nowhere near ready but probably felt she had to try and make some defence of her title.

Floppybits

Raducanu in big trouble here. Noskova is thumping winners from everywhere.

Floppybits

Good fighting performance from Raducanu.

Rjd2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119103034#Comment_119103034

He's not bad, but the fact that guys like him , Ruud and Sinner are so high in the rankings isn't a great reflection on the depth of the men's game.

Once the oldies step away we are going to get some very random winners of these slams.

Royale with Cheese

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104044#Comment_119104044

Or more likely Alcaraz will win everything for the next 5+ years.

Girly Gal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104228#Comment_119104228

Neither scenario will be good for the game, just look at the women's game, its thrown up so many random winners in the last few years it's become farcical at this stage, but, when Serena dominated without any serious challenger it wasn't good either. Hopefully in the future someone can come along and challenge Alcaraz too and build up a proper rivalry to make it interesting.

whiterebel

Tsonga drives the crowd wild, taking the first set on a TB v Ruud.

yerwanthere123

Haven't had a chance to watch much so far. As we all remember Musetti squandered a two set lead against Djokovic last year, looks like he's going to do the same here against Tsitsipas.

Sad to see Tsonga retire, but it was obviously time to go.

HeidiHeidi

Just watching the Tsonga-Ruud match highlights now.

What a match! The atmosphere there must have been electric.

The poor Norwegian, playing against all that!! But poor Tsonga as well, emotions clearly running high for him.

HeidiHeidi

Awww, and literally as I typed that, he caved 😥

What a horrible end (I'm assuming it's the end...)

HeidiHeidi

A pint-sized Argentinian fairly putting it up to Zverev..... be interesting to see how long he can keep it up.

HeidiHeidi

5-1 to Baez, he's running rings around Zverev - for the moment anyway.

HeidiHeidi

1 set up, and 2 breaks up in 2nd.

Zverev is at sea here.

The wind is whipping up rightly, sending up dust storms every so often.... I wonder would they consider closing the roof of that continues? It must be wildly uncomfortable, if not impossible, to play in it.

WTA 47 Aliaksandra Sasnovich maintains her 100% head-to-head record against Raducanu who herself maintains her post US Open slam record with a second-round exit

yerwanthere123

Oh my, Alcaraz two sets to one down.

squigglestrebor

Alcaraz not really looking like the second coming of Jesus yet.

whiterebel

what defence by Alcaraz to make it 5-4.

Royale with Cheese

Jesus is risen.

squigglestrebor

Amazing performance , will dominate tennis for 15 years ,no hope for anyone else, just needs to get to that first semi and then many more semis to come.

HeidiHeidi

Had to go out this afternoon so recorded the last 3 sets of Zverev-Baez - just finished watching it - what a match!! I really though Baez might do it.

Size, stature, attitude, style, all reminded me of Alcaraz - both pocket rockets. OK, he's a (little) bit older, but def one to watch.

Just sorry I've missed the Alcaraz match!

Hego Damask

One thing today has cemented, is the absolute certainty that Nadal will win the French open.

Alcaraz was the only player that could beat him, and him taking 4.5 hrs to beat Vinolas shows he won't beat him here.

It's gas, Rafa supposedly "injured" and is playing like he was when he was 25 here - we fall for it every single time, nice act in Madrid Rafa ...

I wonder what odds ill get, as it's money in the bank.

yerwanthere123

Hopefully that will be Alcaraz' worst match of the tournament and he'll continue progressing through the draw, would be a real shame if he doesn't make the semi's.

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119114519#Comment_119114519

"Money in the bank", now where have I heard that expression before? Oh, wait...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/114785001#Comment_114785001

Hego Damask

^^ That Hector lad knows his stuff, but come on, it's kind of like predicting that Conor McGregor would win in a bare knuckle v some 90 year old age pensioner with a bad hip ...

It's not rocket science lads.