Andreescu, Pliskova, Stephens headline Roland Garros qualifying list

Two Grand Slam champions, a former World No. 1, and two earlier finalists will all have to play their approach into the primary draw of the 12 months’s second Grand Slam match subsequent month. Former Top 10 gamers Bianca Andreescu, Sloane Stephens and Karolina Pliskova stand out in a stacked area for the qualifying match at Roland Garros, which begins May 18 and was confirmed on Tuesday.

All three gamers are bidding for a main-draw return in Paris after lacking out on the 2025 match because of a mixture of accidents. Stephens has the strongest pedigree of the three in Paris, ending runner-up to Simona Halep in 2018, and reaching two extra quarterfinals in 2019 and 2022. Two-time main finalist Pliskova was a semifinalist in 2017 — her solely journey to the second week in 13 profession foremost draw efforts in Paris — whereas 2019 US Open champion Andreescu reached the third spherical in back-to-back years in 2023-24.

But the 34-year-old Pliskova has discovered a spark on the terre battue on the Mutua Madrid Open this week, the place she’s performed her approach via to the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 occasion.

Also entered in qualifying are 2021 runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who misplaced to Barbora Krejcikova within the championship match 5 years in the past; Paula Badosa, a former World No. 2; and two different former semi-finalists in Paris, Italy’s Martina Trevisan and Slovenia’s Tamara Zidansek. Five years in the past, when the Slovenian reached the ultimate 4, she beat Badosa in an epic 7-5, 4-6, 8-6 quarterfinal.

Stephens and Trevisan are two of seven gamers utilizing injury-protected rankings to enter qualifying. Among the gamers to enter on that standing are two French favorites, Oceane Dodin, a former World No. 46, and former World No. 10 Kristina Mladenovic, in addition to 2021 US Open junior champion Robin Montgomery.

Zidansek’s compatriot Veronika Erjavec, this week ranked No. 96 within the PIF WTA Rankings, is the highest-ranked participant entered in qualifying, adopted by Francesca Jones, Badosa, Sinja Kraus and Kaja Juvan.

Sixteen gamers will safe berths into the French Open foremost draw by way of qualifying, with eight wild playing cards anticipated to finish the sector of 128 gamers. Main-draw entry was confirmed two weeks in the past, with 100 of the Top 101 gamers as of the week commencing April 13 entered into the clay-court main.

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