Second seed Daniil Medvedev was stunned by Brazilian qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild in the opening round of the French Open.

The Russian arrived at Roland Garros on the back of winning his first clay-court title at the Italian

Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina has insisted that "empty words" are not helping people from her war-torn country as she called for more support in the fight against Russia.

Glad to have you back, @ElinaSvitolina 😁#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/nvIPGvpP3Y— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros

The French Tennis Federation (FFT) have said that they will take no action against Novak Djokovic for writing a message at the French Open following violence in Kosovo.

heart of Serbia - stop the violence", Novak Djokovic wrote on camera after winning the first round of Roland

Garros pic.twitter.com/zoAuBxDtjv— Spriter (@Spriter99880) May 29, 2023The Serbian Government has withheld

Novak Djokovic began his quest for a record 23rd men's Grand Slam singles title with a commanding victory at the French Open.

The Serbian, who is a two-time champion at Roland Garros, cruised past the United States' Aleksandar

🤩#FlyBetter #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/5WeQ7xbjkb— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 29, 2023He

Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk was booed off the court following her first-round defeat in the French Open women's singles tournament to Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.

Kostyuk "didn't deserve to leave the court that way".The 25-year-old Sabalenka, whose best result at Roland

Garros is a third-round finish, was startled by the reaction from the crowd.Sabalenka defeated Kostyuk

encounter lasting more than two hours.It is the second straight year that eighth seed Sakkari, a previous Roland

Garros semi-finalist, has been knocked out of the Grand Slam by Muchová.Maria Sakkari was knocked out

will be a notable absentee when tennis’s second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open, begins at Roland

Garros in Paris tomorrow.

shot selection.Reigning French Open women's singles champion Iga Świątek starts at the top seed in Roland

Garros ©Getty ImagesIn the women’s draw, defending champion Iga Świątek of Poland starts as the top

Russian neutral Daniil Medvedev and Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina warmed up for the French Open with victories at the clay-court Italian Open in Rome.

Marozsán.The second Grand Slam of the year and the only one of the four played on clay is due to be played at Roland

Garros from May 28 to June 11.

Record 14-time winner Rafael Nadal has pulled out of this month's French Open because of a hip injury, and suggested next year would be his last on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour.

I have lost goals along the way, and Roland Garros becomes impossible."

At this moment, I won't be able to be at Roland Garros."

Garros debut in 2005, Nadal has won 14 of the 18 men's singles titles, last year's straight sets victory

by Djokovic.This year's French Open is scheduled to start on May 28 and run through to June 11.The Roland

Garros venue is set to be used for tennis and wheelchair tennis at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics

Olympic organisers have revealed that over one million tickets have been purchased in the space of 48 hours, leaving 20 sports sold out for Paris 2024, including the new discipline of breaking.

 Category C tickets for the boxing finals at Roland Garros are still advertised at €205 (£178/$224

Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus beat Polish world number one Iga Świątek on clay for the first time to earn her second Madrid Open title.

Świątek food for thought three weeks before she defends her French Open title on the clay courts of Roland

€1,105,265 (£980,000/$124,000) and 1,000 ranking points.More importantly, it also stoked her confidence for Roland

Garros.

Argentina’s FIFA World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi and his Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappé, who scored a hat-trick in the final, are among athletes who will assemble in next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games host city Paris on May 8 for the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards.

medals to a record 22.Tennis will be represented by Poland's Iga Świątek who, like Nadal, triumphed at Roland

Garros in 2022 and who followed it up by winning the US Open.Dutch Formula One world champion Max Verstappen

Paris 2024 organisers have announced a programme of Olympic and Paralympic test events between July 2023 and June 2024.

 Roland Garros is due to host the first Paris 2024 operational test event, to look at the venue's

transitions at venues hosting multiple sports.The first operational test event is due to held in July at Roland

Garros in Paris to test the venue’s ability to transition from tennis to boxing.Four more are due to

Deutches Haus, a meeting place for German athletes, will be set up at the Stade Jean Bouin for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The stadium is located in the immediate vicinity of the Parc des Princes and Stade Roland-Garros, where

Novak Djokovic has said that familiar surroundings at the Roland Garros is set to benefit him in his

It’s going to be played on clay at Roland Garros, so I’m familiar with those grounds."

USA Boxing's Olympic trials for Paris 2024 are set to take place in Lafayette in December of this year to decide the athletes who advance to the second phase of qualification.

Boxing events at Paris 2024 are due to be held from July 27 to August 10 at the North Paris Arena and Roland-Garros