French Open Men’s Singles Tips – CopyBet
Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have shared the last five Grand Slam titles between them and bookmakers are anticipating more of the same at this season’s French Open, where the dominant two soak up the majority of the market.
Alcaraz is the defending champion, having defeated Sinner in the semi-finals before taking care of Alexander Zverev in a five-set title decider, and his recent success in Rome has him rightly heading the market.
Top seed Sinner finished runner-up to Alcaraz in Rome last time out and, with that being his first tournament appearance since winning the Australian Open in January due to a three-month absence, plenty will be expecting him to come on for that outing.
Twenty-four-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, former runners-up Zverev, Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas and rising British star Jack Draper are others who will be hoping to figure.
Tip 1: Everything looks in place for Alcaraz to make a successful defence of his French Open crown, especially on the back of his title success in Rome which featured wins over Draper, Lorenzo Musetti and fierce rival Sinner.
Alcaraz seems to have Sinner’s measure at present, having won four of their last five rivalries, and it would be interesting to see how the Italian fares with the demands of a Grand Slam given he has played in only one tournament since January.
Even so, Sinner has landed in the tougher half of the draw – Zverev, Djokovic, Draper and Daniil Medvedev all feature alongside him – and that provides Alcaraz with a gilt-edged opportunity.
The Spaniard is more at ease on the slower surface, with ten of his 19 ATP Tour titles coming on this terrain, and he has lost only two of his last 19 clay-court matches, suggesting that he is going to be an extremely difficult man to deter.
Tip 2: Sinner may be able to find the level that is required to make the final, but there are doubts and if there is to be an upset in the top half, then Francisco Cerundolo could provide it.
The second quarter looks an intriguing heat as Zverev and Djokovic both come with their flaws and Cerundolo has the ability on clay to upstage the pair.
The Argentinian world number 18 has won all three clay-court meetings with Zverev, while Djokovic, a fading force at 38 years of age, suffered first-round exits in both Monte Carlo and Madrid to raise some concern for his chances on clay.
Cerundolo has made semi-finals in clay court tournaments in Munich and Madrid within the last month and has also reached five clay finals on the ATP Tour.
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