the draw for the Monte-Carlo 2023 table – Liberation

The first major tennis event of the European season on clay, the Masters 1000 tournament in Monte-Carlo takes place from April 8 to 16, 2023. Who will succeed the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, double title holder? Many headliners withdrew this week: Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Pablo Carreno Busta, Yoshihito Nishioka, Fabio Fognini, Denis Shapovalov as well as the Frenchman Gaël Monfils. Absent during the American hard court tour, world number 1 Novak Djokovic is making his comeback to try to win a third title on the Rock.

The first eight seeds (Djokovic, Tsitsipas, Ruud, Fritz, Medvedev, Rublev, Rune, Hurkacz) are exempt from the first round. On the French side, Richard Gasquet and Benjamin Bonzi are directly integrated into the main draw. Grégoire Barrere, Adrian Mannarino, Arthur Rinderknech, Ugo Humbert, Quentin Halys, Constant Lestienne, Benoît Paire and the young Luca Van Assche will have to go through the qualifications on Saturday April 8 and Sunday April 9 to try to reach the main tournament. .

The matches of this 116th edition of the Masters 1000 of Monte-Carlo are broadcast on Eurosport and C8 will broadcast the semi-finals as well as the final in clear.