What to expect from the French at Roland Garros 2020?

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We knew our most valiant Tricolors at the start of Roland-Garros.

As if they had leveled off with this rather sad edition on paper, almost without spectators and in the grayness at least for the first week, the representatives of the nation disembark at Porte d'Auteuil in a worrying state of form.

We summarize all this in a small video.

In detail, there are some (small) glimmers of hope.

Ugo Humbert is in the quarter-finals in Hamburg, after having notably eliminated 5th player Daniil Medvedev in the first round.

It may cost him a little energy, but it's especially good for the 22-year-old left-hander, who has yet to make it through Parisian clay.

This time he will face a player out of qualifying, and everything is in place for his first big.

Too bad that if all goes well, a real earthling awaits him from the second round in the person of Cristian Garin.

The same goes for Corentin Moutet.

The atypical left-hander begins to gain consistency in Grand Slam.

After his third round at Roland last year (remember that five-set match against Londero…), he handed it over to the US Open.

But after a first round against a qualifier, he will surely, if he passes, come up against Diego Schwartzman, Rafa Nadal striker in Rome.

Oops.

Not helped in the draw ...

Overall, all the French have a very complicated first or second round ahead of them (Medvedev for Mannarino, Coric for Chardy, Wawrinka for Hoang, Zverev for Herbert, Auger-Aliassime for Gaston or Janvier, Bautista Agut for Gasquet…).

Even Monfils, the only protected as the number 8 seed, inherited a (very) fit man with Alexander Bublik.

For Les Bleues, it's not much better.

Alizé Cornet, who can be considered our best chance, will first have to manage a match against a compatriot - Chloé Paquet - before possibly challenging Madison Keys, 16th player in the world.

And if that passes, there will surely be Angélique Kerber, former winner of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, around the corner.

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Caroline Garcia has perhaps the best table, with playable seeds (Kontaveit, Mertens) on the road to the round of 16.

The same could be said of Kiki Mladenovic, but the Northerner arrives so far into the unknown after her incredible quarantine at the US Open that we prefer not to plan anything.

Remain the youngest, Clara Burel, Fiona Ferro, Diane Parry, Océane Dodin (opposed to Kvitova from the first round)… Roland always reserves a nice surprise for us, we hope that this one will not depart from the rule, despite his character. so singular.

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