The 2025 French Open got off to a statement start for world No. 1 Jannik Sinner, who cemented his status as the tournament’s overwhelming title favorite with a clinical straight-sets victory over French wildcard Clement Tabur in the tournament’s opening round. Sinner’s 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 win on Court Philippe Chatrier pushed his undefeated run to 30 consecutive matches, a streak that has already seen him claim clay-court titles at Monte Carlo, Madrid, and Rome. His triumph in Rome earlier this month also made him just the third player in men’s tennis history to complete the career Golden Masters, the rare feat of winning all nine ATP Masters 1000 events. This run of form comes at a historic moment for Sinner, who is chasing the only Grand Slam title missing from his trophy collection: a championship at Roland Garros. A Paris win would make him only the 10th male player in the Open Era to complete the career Grand Slam, a milestone rival Carlos Alcaraz claimed his spot in when he won the 2025 Australian Open earlier this year. Between them, Sinner and Alcaraz have taken home the last nine men’s Grand Slam titles. Sinner’s path to the Coupe des Mousquetaires has been cleared of one of its biggest hurdles this year, as defending champion Alcaraz was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to injury. That absence, combined with Novak Djokovic’s nearing retirement after a 20-plus-year Hall of Fame career, has made Sinner the heaviest favorite to win a men’s Grand Slam since Rafael Nadal was favored to claim his fifth consecutive Roland Garros title in 2009. Sinner is well aware of the parallels to that 2009 tournament, where the heavily favored Nadal was upset in the fourth round by Robin Soderling in one of the biggest shocks in Grand Slam history, and will be aiming to avoid that same upset fate during his 2025 run. Tuesday’s opening match marked Sinner’s first return to Court Philippe Chatrier since his heartbreaking 2024 French Open final loss to Alcaraz, a five-set thriller where Sinner squandered three match points before falling to the defending champion. Against Tabur, the world No. 171 entering the tournament, Sinner was in control from the first serve. He kept unforced errors impressively low while firing off winners consistently across all three sets, and did not allow Tabur a single break point over the course of the two-hour and eight-minute match. The draw has already shaped up favorably for Sinner in his half of the bracket, even beyond Alcaraz’s absence. Multiple top seeds exited in the first round on Tuesday: sixth seed Daniil Medvedev and ninth seed Alexander Bublik both suffered opening-round upsets, while fourth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, the highest remaining ranked seed in Sinner’s half, needed a dramatic fifth-set tiebreak to scrape past world No. 57 Daniel Altmaier. Auger-Aliassime has also lost five consecutive head-to-head matches against Sinner, leaving the Italian with a clear statistical advantage ahead of any potential meeting. Up next for Sinner is a second-round matchup against Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo, ranked 56th in the world, who advanced after beating British player Jacob Fearnley in his opening round. This year’s opening round also marked a disappointing milestone for British men’s tennis, as no British male players managed to advance past the first round of the 2025 French Open, a historic low for the nation’s contingent at the clay-court major.