Ukraine’s Kostyuk keeps focus in Paris after missile strike near parents’ home

With double-defending champion Alcaraz missing through injury, Djokovic will enter his first-round match in the night session on Stade Philippe Chatrier against Frances Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard knowing this may well be his best chance of claiming a record-breaking 25th crown.

The French Open started amid a heat wave in Paris on Sunday, May 24.

Two days after his 39th birthday, Djokovic will play a men’s record 82nd Grand Slam tournament — one more than Roger Federer and Feliciano Lopez.

Novak Djokovic is headlining the first day of French Open on Sunday, where he will face Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on the centre court.