{"id":14822,"date":"2025-05-22T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/french-open-2025-draw-emma-raducanu-could-face-iga-swiatek-early-jack-draper-opens-against-mattia-belluci\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:25:03","slug":"french-open-2025-draw-emma-raducanu-could-face-iga-swiatek-early-jack-draper-opens-against-mattia-belluci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/french-open-2025-draw-emma-raducanu-could-face-iga-swiatek-early-jack-draper-opens-against-mattia-belluci\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open 2025 draw: Emma Raducanu could face Iga Swiatek early, Jack Draper opens against Mattia Belluci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swiatek, who has dominated the women&#8217;s singles draw in recent years, comes into the clay-court major in uncertain form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pole has not won a tournament this year and has dropped to fifth in the world &#8211; meaning she could face the leading players earlier than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All eyes were on which quarter Swiatek would land in, with Italian fourth seed Jasmine Paolini &#8211; who Swiatek beat in last year&#8217;s final &#8211; her potential last-eight opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To get that far, though, she might have to see off Raducanu and 11th seed Elena Rybakina &#8211; another former Grand Slam champion &#8211; in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Djokovic, perhaps not surprising as age catches him up, has also been well below his best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He lost three matches in a row to start the clay swing and ended the coaching partnership with Andy Murray last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His draw could have been much worse in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Serb great, who turned 38 on Thursday, has German third seed <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Alexander Zverev<\/b> and Russian 11th seed <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Daniil Medvedev<\/b> in his quarter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cy8nkkpymdxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiatek, who has dominated the women&#8217;s singles draw in recent years, comes into the clay-court major in uncertain form. The Pole has not won a tournament this year and has dropped to fifth in the world &#8211; meaning she could face the leading players earlier than usual. All eyes were on which quarter Swiatek would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14824,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions\/14824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}