2025 French Open predictions, betting odds, preview: Can an American win at Roland Garros?

The second of tennis’ Grand Slam occasions will get underway on Might 25 with the beginning of the French Open. The clay-court match is one the place a slower floor velocity places an emphasis on the flexibility to win prolonged rallies and play off the baseline reasonably than counting on a dominant serve.

These situations create an setting the place sure gamers have thrived, although none greater than Rafael Nadal, who gained 14 French Open titles in his profession and racked up an absurd 112-4 report on the occasion whereas successful each last he made. Nadal won’t take part in Roland Garros in 2025, having retired in November with an astounding 92 titles gained in his legendary profession.

Whereas Nadal’s absence shall be notable, even after he’d fallen from his unimaginable profession heights, his largest profession rival shall be in motion as Novak Djokovic appears to be like to construct on the momentum of successful his a hundredth profession title when he defeated Hubert Hurkacz within the finals of the Geneva Open, ending a title drought that prolonged again to when he gained gold on the 2024 Olympics.

Djokovic sits at +1200 to win Roland Garros, which can seem to be lengthy odds, however locations him as third most probably to win the boys’s match. These odds outcome from the dominance of the brand new era of stars like final 12 months’s French Open winner Carlos Alcaraz, 22, and Italy’s Jannik Sinner, 23.

Alvaraz is the favourite, presently sitting at +100 to repeat final 12 months’s accomplishment, whereas Sinner sits at +225. Alvaraz has gained 4 Grand Slam tournaments to Sinner’s three, although Sinner gained the Australian Open to choose up the primary Grand Slam title of the 12 months.

It has been a extremely very long time since an American man has gained the French Open. The final title got here in 1999 when Andre Agassi took the crown at Roland Garros. There are a handful of males trying to finish that drought, together with Frances Tiafoe, Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul who might make a run. 

Whereas the boys’s facet options two clear-cut favorites, the ladies’s area feels much more aggressive.

Poland’s Iga Swiatek has gained 5 Grand Slam titles in her profession, together with 4 titles at Roland Garros. Swiatek has gained the French Open every of the previous three years and is trying to prolong that run to 4 this 12 months. Regardless of her wild success on the match, Swiatek isn’t the favourite, sitting at +300.

Swiatek has not been in her finest kind in 2025, opening the door for present world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus to enter the match as the favourite at +240. Swiatek has gained 20 WTA titles, together with three Grand Slam titles.

Whereas the American males have struggled mightily at this occasion, Serena Williams has helped stop an extended drought on the ladies’s facet. She was the final American girls to earn the title at Roland Garros again in 2015.

America’s finest hope for a French Open winner is 21-year-old Coco Gauff. She gained the U.S. Open in 2023 and is now on the hunt for her second Grand Slam singles title. Gauff is one among two girls, together with Mirra Andreeva, listed at +500 heading into the match.

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2025 French Open betting odds

2025 French Open predictions

Males’s match: Upsets occur and will make for a enjoyable match, however this does really feel like a two-horse race between Sinner and Alcaraz. For the primary time, the 2 males will enter a Grand Slam seeded No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. A conflict within the finals could be thrilling however rely on overcoming some doubtlessly difficult matches alongside the way in which. Nonetheless, the pair are the clear favorites for a motive, and a Grand Slam last showdown is the expectation. When contemplating the clay floor, that potential match turns into a battle of Alcaraz’s motion and velocity in opposition to the cleaner ball-striking and forehand of Sinner.

Alcaraz has 4 consecutive wins over Sinner, together with in straight units within the finals in Rome one week previous to the beginning of the French Open. Rome marked Sinner’s return to the courtroom after serving three months of a doping ban after a settlement centering round unintended publicity as a result of what was dominated unintended contamination. Ought to Sinner and Alcaraz meet within the finals, one other straight set win for Alcaraz could be surprising, however a win ultimately nonetheless feels just like the most probably consequence. Choose: Carlos Alcaraz (+100)

Girls’s match: The ladies’s area feels ripe for an upset. As talked about, Swiatek has gained 4 of the 5 most up-to-date French Opens, together with the three most up-to-date. Her kind is solely off heading into Roland Garros, and it does not arrange a promising scenario for the defending champ. Sabalenka is an apparent risk to run away with the match, however she might have a more durable path to the finals than anticipated. Swiatek and Sabalenka are located on the identical facet of the bracket, that means in the event that they each win all of their matches, they’d meet within the semifinals.

Gauff was given a significantly better draw, with Andreeva as her largest attainable impediment to creating the finals (their potential assembly would come within the semifinals). Gauff beat Andreeva in Rome and Madrid and dominated Swiatek in Madrid, successful 6-1, 6-1. Gauff’s serving is a matter, however the clay makes a dominant serve much less of an essential issue. So long as she will reduce the double faults, Gauff performs so properly off the baseline and has such a pleasant draw heading into the match that she will make a deep run. If she meets her largest attainable problem (Andreeva) within the semifinals, she clearly has the sting based mostly on current outcomes. It could then take one good match within the finals to take down her second profession Grand Slam title. Choose: Coco Gauff (+500)

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