The clay expert French Open failed, and the two former tournament runners-up went out hand in hand!

The French Open is in full swing, but the drop of seeded players is still ongoing. In Men's Singles, after losing nine seeded players in the first round, three new big-seeded players were added in the second round, which was a shock.

First up was the two-time runner-up Ruud. It stands to reason that clay is Ruud's most consistent game. Of all his past tournament victories, only one has come on non-clay. In recent years, he has made several breakthroughs in clay tournaments.

Last year, he met Tsitsipas in the final of the Monte Carlo Masters in Barcelona, and this time he fought back to win his first non-250 championship while keeping his opponent out of the 500 title.

One step a year! Ruud reached the final of the tournament at the recent Madrid Masters, against the new Indian Wells Masters champion Draper. This time, the Norwegian finally seized his chance, winning the title after several unsuccessful attempts to reach the finals of the tournament.

Just when people were expecting to finally break through the window paper of the tournament without a title, Ruud could make a difference at this year's French Open, but he didn't even reach last year's semi-finals. In this way, his world ranking will fall out of the top 10 again after a brief return to the top 10.

Even worse is the former runner-up. Tsitsipas was another upset against an obscure player, and like the Australian Open, where he excelled, the Greek also suffered at the French Open.

Historically, Tsitsipas has won the Mica Masters three times in five years and has always reached at least the quarter-finals at the French Open, and his clay prowess seems to be more trustworthy than his hard court prowess, but this year he has made a big difference on hard courts.

At Dubai, the Greek finally won his first 500 title against Aliassime, who had won his first career title on him. thought that he would take advantage of this to rise and return to the peak state of the year, but he repeatedly dropped the line.

An early exit at Roland Garros will see them fall out of the top 20 for the first time in seven years. Now, he has enlisted former Wimbledon champion and former head coach of Djokovic Ivanisevic to help him see if he can halt his slump in the grass-court season.

and De Minaur, who briefly entered the top 10 in the world and has been in stable form, was also chased by his opponent against Kazakhstan's Bublik and lost a good game. After the race, the Australian hare, like Ruud, pointed the finger at the events that are held so often that the athletes are running around and complaining.

It's just that some events can be chosen by themselves, and athletes should also be responsible for their own bodies rationally, so why blame others for all the responsibility?

Of course, more than half of the seeded players in the current top 10 are still in the draw. How long will they survive this storm of upsets?(Source: Tennis Home Author: Luo Cheng Qiye)