Todd Woodbridge and Sam Stosur consider Australian gamers can go deep at this 12 months’s clay-court Grand Slam match.
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| Roland Garros Australian champions within the Open period |
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| Occasion | Titles received | Most up-to-date champions |
| Males’s singles | 2 | Rod Laver (1969) |
| Ladies’s singles | 5 | Ash Barty (2019) |
| Males’s doubles | 8 | Todd Woodbridge/ Mark Woodforde (2000) |
| Ladies’s doubles | 4 | Alicia Molik with Mara Santangelo (ITA) (2007) |
| Blended doubles | 8 | Casey Dellacqua with Scott Lipsky (USA) (2011) |
| Boys’ singles | 2 | Alexei Popyrin (2017) |
| Women’ singles | 1 | Lesley Hunt (1968) |
| Boys’ doubles | 6 | Nick Kyrgios/ Andrew Harris (2012) |
| Women’ doubles | 3 | Jessica Moore with Polona Hercog (SLO) (2008) |
| Quad wheelchair singles | 3 | Dylan Alcott (2021) |
| Quad wheelchair doubles | 1 | Dylan Alcott (2019) |
Woodbridge, a two-time doubles champion at Roland Garros, believes Alex de Minaur is Australia’s finest probability on this 12 months’s singles competitors.
“Alex can go deep,” Woodbridge predicted of the world No.11, who’s but to progress past the second spherical in Paris.
“He’s had sufficient wins towards high gamers on clay that if (the draw) opens up the fitting approach he might sneak via. We’ve had the likes of Pat Rafter attain the semifinals (in 1997) earlier than on the lads’s aspect, so it may be finished.”
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The 22-time Grand Slam champion is most impressed with the best way De Minaur has “upped the ante by way of tempo off the bottom” this season.
“He’s bought larger, he’s bought stronger however he hasn’t misplaced any velocity,” Woodbridge famous. “He’s taking up a way more front-foot perspective and taking it to his opponents.
“It’s not his favorite (floor), however his mindset is pretty much as good as anyone’s.”
De Minaur is amongst 9 Australians on this 12 months’s males’s singles primary draw, the very best illustration in 25 years.
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Predominant-draw motion at Roland Garros 2024 begins on Sunday 26 Might. It will likely be broadcast stay in Australia on the 9 Community and Stan Sport.
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