French Open Men's Singles Favourites

The second Grand Slam of the 2025 season sees the players take to the red dirt in Paris for the French Open and in the men's competition, Carlos Alcaraz is a strong favourite to make it a successful title defence.

Alcaraz overcame Alexander Zverev in a five-set final to take the prize last year and, having then followed up at Wimbledon, he is now aiming to become a five-time Grand Slam champion.

World number one Jannik Sinner gets set for his first Grand Slam competition since winning the Australian Open in January, while, 24-time Major champion Novak Djokovic, last season's beaten finalist Zverev and two-time runner-up Casper Ruud are other notable players in the field.

2025 French Open Men's Singles Favourites

Carlos Alcaraz

Despite still being only 22 years of age, Alcaraz is a four-time Grand Slam champion and the Spaniard will have high hopes of claiming a second French Open title in succession.

Alcaraz has already won a clay-court title this season, having lifted the Monte-Carlo Masters in April, and he built on that with a runner-up effort at the Barcelona Open.

The Murcia man only made the quarter-finals at the Australian Open in January but he tends to improve as the season progresses and a positive showing in Rome suggests that he is over the adductor muscle injury that had previously forced him out of competition in Madrid.

Jannik Sinner

Sinner was handed a ban on the back of winning his third Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January and he marked his comeback recently in Rome.

The Italian looked sharp on his return to the court and being fresh may be no bad thing in the heat of battle.

The 23-year-old has won three Grand Slam titles and has no problem translating his best form to the clay, although he has made only one semi-final across five visits to the French Open which raises some concern.

Novak Djokovic

With 24, Djokovic holds the record for the most Grand Slam titles won, and that includes three French Open titles in 2016, 2021 and 2023.

The 37-year-old is evidently not the force he once was and his recent form has been patchy to say the least, with his first-round exit to Alejandro Tabilo in Monte Carlo followed by another early elimination to Matteo Arnaldi in Madrid.

The Serbian, who has recently ended his coaching partnership with Andy Murray, has made only one of the last five Grand Slam finals and clay would be his weakest surface.

Alexander Zverev

A Grand Slam title still eludes world number two Zverev but the German did play second fiddle to Alcaraz in last season's French Open and was also runner-up to Sinner at the Australian Open earlier in the year.

The 28-year-old should soon get his day in the sun and, after a lean spell on the back of making the final at Melbourne Park, he appears to be back to his peak performance.

Zverev won a clay-court title on home soil in Munich at the end of April and was subsequently far from disgraced in Madrid and Rome.

Casper Ruud

Ruud has become a bit of a bridesmaid in Grand Slam competitions, reaching three finals without success, including the French Open in 2022 and 2023.

However, the Norwegian bumped into 'King of the Clay' Rafael Nadal and Djokovic in those two title deciders in Paris and will feel that he may still be capable of going one better on his strongest surface.

Ruud roared back to form with his recent win at the Madrid Open, a tournament which saw him overcome Taylor Fritz, Daniil Medvedev, Francisco Cerundolo and Jack Draper, and he should not be underestimated in his pursuit of a first Grand Slam crown.

Stefanos Tsitsipas

A lack of consistency continues to hold Tsitsipas back but on the right day, he is a danger to all and he has made two Grand Slam finals, one of which came at the French Open in 2021.

The 26-year-old let a two-set lead slip to lose to Djokovic in that title decider four years ago and that appears to have left some battle scars.

However, Tsitsipas loves these slower conditions, illustrated by his Monte-Carlo Masters titles in 2021, 2022 and 2024.

Jack Draper

Now up to a career-high ranking of world number five, Britain's Draper is starting to show that he is the real deal and more success is likely to follow providing he keeps himself fighting fit.

Draper has already had a landmark year, winning his maiden ATP 1000 final at Indian Wells in March before making another Masters title decider in Madrid, albeit falling short to Ruud.

That does, however, show that the 23-year-old can mix it with the best on clay and another deep run in Rome recently makes him one of the form contenders heading to Paris.

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