This year’s total prize money for Wimbledon will be a record £40.3 million ($50.3 million/ €47.4 million) with the men’s and women’s singles champions set to earn £2 million ($2.49 million/ €2.35 million) each.

Tennis Association and International Tennis Federation to strip the event of ranking points.Serbian Novak

Djokovic is the defending men’s singles champion while the retired Ashleigh Barty of Australia bagged

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Getty ImagesRafael Nadal currently has 22 Grand Slams, two more than his great rivals Roger Federer and Novak

Djokovic ©Getty ImagesNorway's Casper Ruud was humbled by Rafael Nadal despite having a strong tournament

Russian Daniil Medvedev will move to the top of the men’s professional world tennis rankings after German Alexander Zverev’s semi-final loss at the French Open yesterday.

fourth round in Paris by Croatian Marin Čilić.Zverev needed to win the tournament to unseat Serbian Novak

Djokovic in the top spot in the rankings, but was forced to retire hurt against Spain’s Rafael Nadal

number one, after spending three weeks at the top of the rankings from February 28 to March 20, before Djokovic

Nadal kept his quest for a 14th men's singles French Open crown alive with a victory over his rival Novak

Djokovic ©Getty ImagesLeylah Fernandez lifts her top up over her mouth during her defeat to Martina

Trevisan ©Getty ImagesDefending champion Djokovic lost to Nadal in their night session quarter-final

Rafael Nadal and Alexander Zverev confirmed their semi-final places at the French Open tennis at Roland Garros, winning their respective quarter-final encounters in four sets.

Nadal defeated top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 in a night session match

three times on his way to claiming the first set 6-2 and led 3-0 with two breaks in set two, before Djokovic

Nadal regained the momentum in set three with a break in the opening game on the way to taking it 6-2.Djokovic

Two of the top four seeds, Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas were eliminated as the men’s singles fourth round concluded at the French Open at Roland Garros.

Last year’s runner-up Tsitsipas, who was beaten in the final by Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, today came unstuck

Thirteen-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal was pushed all the way by Felix Auger-Aliassime as the fourth round of the men’s singles competition got underway at Roland Garros.

6-3.Nadal took the decisive fifth 6-3, to set up an eye-catching quarter-final match with top seed Novak

Djokovic of Serbia.Defending champion Djokovic, who was won the clay court Grand Slam on two occasions

The big names in the men’s singles draw at the French Open tennis enjoyed comfortable victories in their third round matches at Roland Garros today.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia, the top seed and defending champion in Paris, continued his record of winning

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fought back to beat Argentina's Sebastian Baez 2-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 7-5 ©Getty ImagesDefending champion Novak

Djokovic, from Serbia, like Nadal reached round three in straight sets ©Getty ImagesBy contrast, four

Rising star Carlos Alcaraz and Olympic champion Alexander Zverev both faced match points in round two of the French Open, but had enough to earn five-set, come-from-behind victories.

Garros in 2021 - his best run to date and one of four Grand Slam final-four appearances.Rafael Nadal and Novak

Djokovic have made many more than that, and both reached the third round with routine wins today.Spain's

Frenchman Corentin Moutet 6-3, 6-1, 6-4.That represents Nadal's 300th Grand Slam match victory.Serbia's Djokovic

defending champion, overcame Alex Molcan from Slovakia 6-2, 6-3, 7-6.The Slovenian Aljaž Bedene awaits Djokovic

him being deported from Australia earlier this year and unable to play in the Australian Open.Novak Djokovic

The All England Club has reportedly consulted lawyers after Wimbledon was stripped of its ranking points following the move to ban players from Russia and Belarus.

will also not be able to defend the points they earned last year, which are set to drop off.Serbia's Novak

Djokovic, for instance, will lose the maximum 2,000 points he gained for winning Wimbledon in 2021.This

families.Russia's Daniil Medvedev could become world number one despite being banned from this year's Wimbledon, as Novak

Djokovic stands to lose 2,000 ranking points ©Getty ImagesIndividual athletes from Russia and Belarus

 A number of players criticised the decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players, including Djokovic

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played spoilsport for spectators briefly at the French Open today ©Getty Images Defending champion Novak

Djokovic showed no mercy as he defeated Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan dropping just four games ©Getty

Rafael Nadal dismissed injury concerns by cruising to a 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 win over Australian Jordan Thompson in the first round of the French Open.

In doing so, the 13-time champion is looking to join Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic in the 300-plus

home crowd as he beat the Swiss star 2-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 to reach the second round.Defending champion Novak

Djokovic of Serbia also posted a convincing 6-3, 6-1, 6-0 victory over Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka in

Spain's Rafael Nadal is facing injury concerns as he seeks to reclaim the French Open men's singles crown, while Poland's Iga Świątek arrives in Paris as the overwhelming favourite for the women's singles title due to a sensational run of form.

claimed Association of Tennis Professionals Masters 1000 crowns at Miami and Madrid.World number one Novak

Djokovic of Serbia could face Nadal as early as the quarter-finals and will be determined to retain

we’re going to see if everything I have been doing before is going to be enough," said Świątek.Novak Djokovic

World number two Daniil Medvedev has admitted that he can understand why Wimbledon has banned Russian tennis players from taking part in this year’s tournament, but he still does not think it is fair.

Melbourne for the second consecutive year, but was beaten by Spain’s Rafael Nadal having lost to Serbia’s Novak

Djokovic in 2021.His form since the Australian Open has been disappointing, but Medvedev is confident