The defending champion is Iga Swiatek and many consider her the number one favourite which is not a bad assumption to make. There will be other candidates to win the event but a lot of that will depend on how they play. We will break down the road to the trophy for all four top seeds below.
The road for Swiatek is quite hard because she would have to through a lot of great players to get to the trophy. Two of those players actually beat her this year so this is a proper challenge. It looks like this:
R1 - Bucsa R2 - Liu R3 - Bouzkova R4 - Krejcikova QF - Gauff SF - Rybakina F - Sabalenka
The road isn't that much easier for Sabalenka but at first glance, it does look to be a bit easier than that of Swiatek. She hasn't played well in Paris before but none of these players is in spectacular form.
R1 - Kostyuk R2 - Udvardy R3 - Zhang R4 - Pliskova QF - Garcia SF - Pegula F -Swiatek
Pegula has a really hard road to an eventual trophy because she's facing a player who could beat her in the first round. It doesn't get that much easier in rounds two or three or any of the following rounds. Check it out below.
Rybakina has a pretty tough road as well with some very tough early matches against good players that could technically produce an effort that could beat her in one match.