Big names forced to enter French Open qualifying including Badosa, Stephens, Dimitrov and Andreescu

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Wednesday, 29 April 2026 at 02:30
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Many big names will take the differing path in a few weeks at the French Open with qualifying entry lists now confirmed with many Grand Slam champions and iconic names entered.
Sloane Stephens and Bianca Andreescu are two ex US Open champions who now find themselves at a very different point in their previously flourishing careers. Stephens in particular has history with this tournament after reaching the final in 2018 during her real emergence.
Stephens played in Saint-Malo yesterday and lost to top seed Tereza Valentova. She also played qualifying beating Diane Parry in Madrid before falling to Anhelina Kalinina. Still a big name in paper in a field like this, she will aim to win her way through.
But others include Paula Badosa who is a Quarter-Final in the 2021 edition and has also hit hard times due to an injury which in theory will likely derail her career sooner rather than later. She is third seed behind Veronika Erjavec and Francesca Jones.
Another former finalist in Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is also forced to play it while Andreescu is playing this week in France and will also be involved. She has played smaller tournaments and has no interest it seems also likely due to ranking of playing any of the big events outside of the majors as she tries to build her ranking up the hard way.
Karolina Pliskova, the former World No.1 is also involved. As are former semi-finalists in Tamara Zidansek and Martina Trevisan. Qualifying week starts on May 18.
In the men's draw, World No.137 Grigor Dimitrov who reached the Quarter-Finals two years ago against Jannik Sinner will have to win three matches to qualify. Daniel Mérida Aguilar, Matteo Arnaldi, Benjamin Bonzi, Titouan Droguet, Hugo Gaston, and Pedro Martinez as well as Bernard Tomic also have to qualify. Many of whom of the French contingent can't rely on wildcards this time.

Top names in Qualifying - WTA

#PlayerCtry
103Francesca JonesGBR
104Veronika ErjavecSLO
105Mayar SherifEGY
106Paula BadosaESP
108Kaja JuvanSLO
109Lulu SunNZL
110Ashlyn KruegerUSA
111Aliaksandra SasnovichBLR
111Océane DodinFRA
112Victoria Jimenez KasintsevaAND
113Olga DanilovićSRB
114Yue YuanCHN
115Lanlana TararudeeTHA
116Darja SemenistajaLAT
117Darja ViďmanováCZE
118Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaRUS
119Suzan LamensNED
120Sinja KrausAUT
121Alina KorneevaRUS
122Rebecca ŠramkováSVK
123Dominika ŠálkováCZE
124Rebeka MasarovaSUI
125Marina StakusicCAN
126Tamara ZidanšekSLO
127Léolia JeanjeanFRA

Top names in qualifying ATP

RankPlayerCountry
102Merida, DanielESP
103Arnaldi, MatteoITA
104Bonzi, BenjaminFRA
107Molcan, AlexSVK
108Shimabukuro, ShoJPN
109de Jong, JesperNED
111Misolic, FilipAUT
112Maestrelli, FrancescoITA
113Droguet, TitouanFRA
114Schoolkate, TristanAUS
115Gaston, HugoFRA
116Nava, EmilioUSA
117Walton, AdamAUS
118Rocha, HenriquePOR
119Choinski, JanGBR
120Basilashvili, NikolozGEO
121Virtanen, OttoFIN
122Wong, ColemanHKG
123Barrios Vera, TomasCHI
124Gaubas, ViliusLTU
125McDonald, MackenzieUSA
126Damm, MartinUSA
127Svrcina, DaliborCZE
128Mochizuki, ShintaroJPN
129Riedi, LeandroSUI
130Pellegrino, AndreaITA
131Taberner, CarlosESP
132Dellien, HugoBOL
133Martinez, PedroESP
134Sweeny, DaneAUS
135Pinnington Jones, JackGBR
136Faria, JaimePOR
137Dimitrov, GrigorBUL
138Lajovic, DusanSRB
139Gea, ArthurFRA
140Budkov Kjaer, NicolaiNOR
141Travaglia, StefanoITA
142Nardi, LucaITA
143O'Connell, ChristopherAUS
144Echargui, MoezTUN
145Llamas Ruiz, PabloESP
147Bolt, AlexAUS
148Piros, ZsomborHUN
149Passaro, FrancescoITA
150Gojo, BornaCRO
151Jacquet, KyrianFRA
152Mejia, NicolasCOL
153Harris, BillyGBR
154Zheng, MichaelUSA
155Harris, LloydRSA
156Jarry, NicolasCHI
157Bu, YunchaoketeCHN
158Draxl, LiamCAN
159Sakamoto, ReiJPN
161Fery, ArthurGBR
162Rodionov, JurijAUT
162Meligeni Alves, FelipeBRA
163Samuel, TobyGBR
164Lajal, MarkEST
165Zeppieri, GiulioITA
166Blanchet, UgoFRA
167Tabur, ClementFRA
168Tseng, Chun-HsinTPE
169Moller, ElmerDEN
170Barrena, AlexARG
171Rodesch, ChrisLUX
172Schwaerzler, JoelAUT
172Coria, FedericoARG
173Kym, JeromeSUI
174Nishioka, YoshihitoJPN
175Ymer, EliasSWE
176Safiullin, Roman
177Basavareddy, NisheshUSA
178Glinka, DaniilEST
179Chidekh, ClementFRA
180Prado Angelo, Juan CarlosBOL
181Diaz Acosta, FacundoARG
182Kolar, ZdenekCZE
183Mayot, HaroldFRA
184Bueno, GonzaloPER
185Holmgren, AugustDEN
185Moreno De Alboran, NicolasUSA
187Gomez, Federico AgustinARG
188Cecchinato, MarcoITA
189Mikrut, LukaCRO
190Smith, ColtonUSA
191Sachko, VitaliyUKR
192Tomic, BernardAUS
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