RG LIVE - Qualifying and draw day, Thurs May 22

Back in his ‘special place’

Carlos Alcaraz sat down with Roland-Garros Magazine to share his thoughts on his first Parisian title, watching tennis here as a kid and support from his idol, the recently retired Rafael Nadal. Read the full interview.

If you missed Wednesday’s events, there’s some great content to enjoy to get up to speed.

Alex Sharp met Ethan Quinn’s coach, Brian Garber, to chat about the youngster’s development.

Dan Imhoff sat down with Danish 21-year-old Elmer Moller after he moved into the third round. The world No.108 was less than complimentary about his ability as a young tennis player!

Chris Oddo was courtside for all the big practice sessions on Day 3 of Opening Week.

And every evening Alix Ramsay analyses the order of play and selects the significant matches of the day. Read her picks for Thursday.

Carlos returns to Roland-Garros

Fresh off his win in Rome on Sunday, the defending champ Carlos Alcaraz is back ready to start rolling on the Paris clay...

A big news day awaits

The warmest of welcomes to Roland-Garros and the first day of EIGHTEEN live blogs that we’ll be bringing you from the second major of the year.

It’s the perfect time to kick things off as Thursday features 48 second and third round qualifying matches as well as the men’s and women’s singles draw ceremony today at 2pm Paris time.

Thursday Order of Play

You can follow the draw live on the official Roland-Garros YouTube channel from 2 o’clock.

We’ll bring you the headlines from the Orangery buildings when the names start appearing in those draw sheets - Chris Oddo sets the scene ahead of 2pm and flags a few names we should all look out for.

We’ll keep you across the major stories from the fourth day of qualifying too, which kicks off at 10am sharp.