PARIS—Welcome to Day 1 of Roland Garros! The Tennis Channel social and TENNIS.com editorial teams have a special bonus edition of Expert Picks to share: we polled the ATP and WTA players who came through our media day setup to tip the winner of the opposite tour’s singles draw.

Matteo Berrettini had started the 2025 season in a very brilliant way, finally playing with the right continuity and taking away the satisfaction of beating a legend like Novak Djokovic for the first time in his career (at the Doha ATP 500).

The second Grand Slam of the season is about to begin. Roland Garros 2025 kicks off with main draw action this Sunday, May 25. Paris welcomes the world’s best tennis players, all aiming to make history on Court Philippe Chatrier.

The Czech pair are highly motivated to compete at Roland Garros after their first ATP Tour triumph in Morocco.

It has been a dramatic start to the year in the world of men's tennis. Jannik Sinner's victory at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season, was overshadowed by his three-month doping ban after testing positive for the banned substance clostebol in 2024.

Andrey Rublev has already produced a couple of ATP Hamburg runs in the past–in 2019 he lost in the final to Nikoloz Basilashvili, then came back the year after to defeat Stefanos Tsitsipas.