Rafael Nadal is moments away from taking the Court Philippe-Chatrier for the first time since winning his 14th French Open title in 2022.
Fan do not know is this will be his last match here but they know he won't go down without a fight.
Nadal will face fourth seed Alexander Zverev in a rematch of their 2022 French Open semi-final.
French Open organisers have scrapped a planned farewell ceremony for Rafael Nadal after the 14-time champion revealed he may not quit this year after all
Nadal continued: “So in some way I don’t want to close, 100 per cent, the door, because of a very simple thing.
“First thing, I am enjoying playing tennis. Second thing, I am travelling with the family. They are enjoying and I am enjoying sharing all this process with them.
“And the third thing, I was not able to explore yet the proper way how I will be able to play in more or less healthy conditions, playing without limitation.
“So give me some time. Maybe in one month and a half I say ‘OK it’s enough, I can’t keep going’, but today in some way I cannot guarantee that that’s going to be the last one. But of course it’s a big chance.”
This was Nadal’s full answer when he spoke about his future ahead of the tournament.
“In terms if that’s going to be my last Roland Garros, it’s a long answer, but I think I need to answer that, because we’re going to avoid future questions since the beginning – so I’m going to do it.
“As I said, it’s a big, big chance that it’s going to be my last Roland Garros, but if I have to tell you it’s 100 per cent my last Roland Garros, sorry, but I will not, because I cannot predict what’s going on. I hope you understand.
“Myself, I have been going through a long process of recovery with a very difficult injury, almost two years of suffering, a recovering process that seems like I feel better now.
“I am not a guy that reacts because I lost there or I lost in the other place, no? I react about my personal feelings, and my personal feelings are better now than one month and a half ago, without a doubt."
It's all kicking off at Roland-Garros!
French tennis star Terence Atmane hits a spectator out of frustration.
His opponent Sebastian Ofner wants him disqualified.
But after much deliberation with the umpire and supervisor, he gets a warning instead.
Carlos Alcaraz eased into the second round of the French Open after shrugging off pre-tournament concerns about his forearm injury.
Against American J.J. Wolf. he breezed into the next stage after a 6-1, 6-2, 6-1, victory.
And the 21-year-old will face qualifier Jesper De Jong next.
He said: "I’m really happy to be back here in Paris and competing again. It’s been a difficult month for me… I love playing tennis."
Andy Murray will depart Roland Garros, probably for the final time, proud of his legacy at the French Open.
Murray never won the French Open, due chiefly to the dominance of Rafael Nadal and, to a lesser extent, Novak Djokovic.
On his defeat the 37-year-old said: "I wish I could have done a little bit better.
"Disappointed but, you know, I didn’t have extremely high expectations with the way the preparation had been coming in.
"“But obviously I would have liked to have done better tonight.”
Jack Draper was the first British player to depart this year’s French Open after his worst-ever major result by ranking.
The British No.2 dropped the F-bombs as he was eliminated 7-5 6-4 6-7 3-6 6-3 in more than four hours by unknown Dutch debutant Jesper de Jong, who has no previous form or history at this level of the sport.
Draper, 23, had to withdraw suddenly from this tournament 12 months ago due to an arm injury sustained after just one set of tennis.
Though there were no signs of physical setbacks, the Sutton southpaw did not fare much better on this occasion out on Court 12, gifting his opponent a shocking NINE double faults.
Had he progressed as he was favourite to do so, then he would have likely booked a second-round date with reigning Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz.
French Open tournament chief Amelie Mauresmo says the bunting and montage videos will be kept in storage for now.
The 2006 Wimbledon champion said: “We had something planned for him.
“But he told us that because he doesn’t know if it’s going to be his last Roland Garros, he wants to leave the door open for him maybe to come back next year as a player.
“So we’re not going to push him obviously to do anything.
“It’s his decision when he wants to have a proper ceremony or proper goodbye and proper farewell.
“So we’re not going to do it this year. That’s his wish.
“Even though we’re ready to push the button and something happens, we are obviously going to respect what he wants.
“And make sure we’re ready whenever he feels he wants to do it. Later this year, next year, anytime he wants. We’ll see what happens.”
The King of Clay, 14-time French Open winner Rafael Nadal is in action at Rolland Garros today.
Nadal is third up against No.4 seed Alex Zverev.
But this year may not be the 37-year-old's last at his favourite event.
French Open bosses have canned a special farewell tribute to Rafa Nadal because he has told them he might be back next year as a player.
Both the Men's and Women's singles winners will take home the same amount.
Here's how much is up for grabs:
COURT PHILIPPE CHATRIER - FROM 11:00
From 19:15
COURT SUZANNE LENGLEN - FROM 10:00
COURT SIMONNE MATHIEU - FROM 10:00
COURT 14 - FROM 10:00
Novak Djokovic has revealed his embarrassment at his low expectation in winning the French Open this year.
Low expectations and high hopes," Djokovic's said when asked how he felt before Roland-Garros this year.
"It's tough to talk about. It's very subjective. I almost feel a bit embarrassed to say what my expectations are.
"Anything but a title for me is not satisfactory, it's always been like that. I know it might sound arrogant to a lot of people, but I think I have the career that backs it up.
"It's various things that were happening in the last couple of months, but I don't want to get into it. I hope you understand that. It's just I don't want to open Pandora's Box and talk about things."
Read Rob Maul's full report from Paris on Andy Murray's crushing defeat.
I’m disappointed. It was always going to be a tough match.
“Stan, over the years, has played brilliant tennis on that court. He gave me very few opportunities. I didn’t have high expectations. I would have liked to have done better.
“Did the change of racquet play any factor? I don’t think so.
“In the last few years, I haven’t played a lot of clay-court tennis, I haven’t won a lot of matches.
“I don’t think it had much of a factor but it will also take a wee bit of time to get used to it. It’s different. There are positives to it. We will keep working on it.
“I told him well done for winning. We had a chat at the net. We have played and known each other for a long time.”
My first words were respect for a great champion.
“I’ve loved watching Andy play, loved fighting against him. We’ve had a lot of fights over the last 15 years.
“We aren’t very young so we did all we could and remembered all these moments.
“I love to work in front of a crowd like this. I’ve shared a lot of emotion with this crowd and they gave me a lot of energy to fight. In my head I’m still a young guy, still a kid.
“It was emotional at the end. It was amazing to be playing on the night session. This was my best match of the year.
“Andy’s an amazing guy, an amazing player, such a big fighter. We have a lot of respect for each other.”
And that's it!
Wawrinka has defeated Andy Murray, who might just be appearing in his last ever French Open.
Murray got lucky early in the game, when a shot clipped the top of the net but dropped on Wawrinka's side.
That only riled Wawrinka up, who loves showing off that booming backhand down the line.
And of course, how does he finish the match? It's that brilliant back hand again down the line.
Fairplay. Murray has served the aces well and hits another one there.
It sets him up nicely to go 30-0 up. But Wawrinka hits a miracle shot, that might've sliced of the racket to clip the line with a bit of fortune.
Still, Murray is gritty. He wins that game to make Wawrinka serve for it.
And that's the first one held.
But only just. Wawrinka double-faulted to take the game into deuce.
But he quickly put it right with a monster serve to follow that up for the advantage.
Then he finishes it off with a powerful forehand through the middle of the court, with Murray second guessing it's placement.
He's not going out without a whimper.
Murray gets on the scoreboard, but you can't help but think this won't be his day.
All Wawrinka has to do is hold his next two serves and it's all over.
Wawrinka has been that bit more powerful on the serve and from the back of the court today.
The competitive edge is now fading away from this match.
Wawrinka is sweeping Murray aside now.
Murray didn't win a single point there, and Wawrinka is in cruise control.
Wawrinka gets himself into three break points.
It feels like these could be match points, to be fair.
Murray pulls one point back, but Wawrinka goes further away.
The lead now seems too much even for Murray to stage one of his epic comebacks.
Wawrinka's been watching Murray and delivers his own drop shot.
But he's got to be careful not to let Murray in, couple of careless points see Wawrinka 30-0 lead all square.
However, Stan holds his ground and then delivers an epic serve which he follows up with a volley to win the game.
This time a Murray drop shot falls short and hits the net.
Two points into the set, Murray is under pressure on his serve 0-30 down.
As he does, Murray fights back to level the score.
He chases every ball to stay in the rally, but Wawrinka went down the line with a brilliant back hand.
Then he repeated the trick in the next point to break Murray's serve at the first time of asking.
Can Murray fight back in set number three?
It's a tough ask.
Murray gives himself a chance of breaking back - winning the opening two points.
But that serve has served Wawrinka well. He fights back and then piles on the pressure to level the scores. A well-constructed point from the Swiss.
Murray hits the net to gift Wawrinka set point with a failed routine forehand.
Wawrinka aces and puts Murray back in his box.
