The Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and the Serbian Novak Djokovic, the the first two favorites to claim the final victory at Roland Garros, they will make their debut this Monday in the tournament.

The world number 1 will start on attacking his second Grand Slam at the third corner of the Suzanne Lenglen track, the second most important of the complex, against the Italian Flavio Cobolli21 years old and 159 in the world, who will play his first Grand Slam duel, which he reached via the previous phase.

DjokovicFor his part, he will seek his third crown at Roland Garros against Serbian-American Alexander KovacevicWorld No. 114, 24, in the second round on center court.

They will not meet in the final

There will be no final between the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and the Serbian Novak Djokovic in this edition of Roland Garros, because the draw crossed their trajectories in the semi-finals and placed both in the most difficult part of the board.

The world number 1 will make his debut against a player from the previous phase and the draw wanted to place the Serbian, two-time Grand Slam winner on clay, in his part of the draw. Before having to beat the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, finalist in 2021, in the quarter-finals, that the Spaniard have won in their four previous duelsthe last of this year’s final in Barcelona.

In the round of 16, Alcaraz will face the British Cameron Norriehis executioner in the Rio final this year, or the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, which would repeat the final of the Hamburg tournament last year, with the victory of the transalpine. Before, the Spaniards will have to overcome the Canadians Denis Shapovalov in the third round.

The tournament will live while waiting for the semi-final between Alcaraz and Djokovic, propelled to the condition of top favorites in the absence of the defending champion, the Spaniard Rafa Nadal, who with physical problems will not face the onslaught of his fifteenth victory in Paris.

The Serbian’s path to this duel isn’t easy either. After his debut against the American Alexander Kovasevicwould be measured in the third round against the Spaniards Alexander Davidovichwho beat him last year in Monte-Carlo.

In the quarter-finals, he will meet the Pole Hubert Hurkaczthirteen in the world, which the Serb has already beaten in Paris in 2019 and against whom he lost only one set in five duels, before facing the Russian in a hypothetical semi-final Andrei Rublevin a reissue of the quarter-finals of the last Australian Open.