MONTE CARLO. As the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 begins on Sunday April 10, the draw for the final draw took place this Friday at 5 p.m. On the program: a potential Djokovic – Alcaraz in the quarter-finals and a complicated draw for the French.
A few weeks before Roland-Garros (May 16-June 5), the Monte-Carlo Masters 1000 is the first major competition of the season on clay. Eagerly awaited by the players, the draw took place this Friday and offers beautiful posters from the first round. Starting with the clash between Diego Schwartzman and Karen Khachanov or that between Daniel Evans and Roberto Bautista Agut.
The French were not spared by the draw where Gaël Monfils will have to get rid of Hubert Hurkacz in the first round while Benoît Paire and Ugo Humbert are respectively opposed to Lorenzo Musetti and Pedro Martinez. Last year’s tricolor revelation, Arthur Rinderknech came across a “big” client in his first match with Fabio Fognini, winner in Monte-Carlo in 2019. Invited by the organizers, Jo Wilfried Tsonga will face Marin Cilic.
If the top seeds will skip the first round, potential good posters are on the program from the quarter-finals. Novak Djokovic, world No. 1 could be opposed to the new phenomenon of world tennis, Carlos Alcaraz but also a confrontation between Andrey Rublev and Alexander Zverev.
What is the date of the Monte-Carlo tournament?
The Monte-Carlo Masters 1000 will take place from April 10 to 17 on the courts of the Country-Club (MCCC) located in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. The public will be back this year two years after the cancellation of the tournament. Last year, the edition, marked by the pandemic, was disputed behind closed doors.
Holder of the TV rights for the nine Masters 1000 including that of Monte-Carlo, Eurosport will broadcast the 2022 Monte-Carlo tournament on its channels and platforms. It’s official: C8 will broadcast the semi-finals and the final of the tournament in the clear. The Canal group channel will be on the air from 1:25 p.m. on Saturday for the last four and 2:25 p.m. on Sunday for the final.
The final table of the Masters 1000 of Monte-Carlo has just been unveiled after the draw. Winner in Miami, Carlos Alcaraz, the new nugget of world tennis can find Novak Djokovic on his way to the quarter-finals. On the French side, Gaël Monfils will face in the first round the seeded n ° 11, Hurbert Hurkacz while Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, guest, will be opposed to the Croatian Marin Cilic. Arthur Rinderknech will have to create the feat against the 2019 winner of the prestigious Monegasque tournament, Fabio Fognini.
Created in 1897, the Monte-Carlo tournament is a historic tennis competition. Since the start of the Open Era in 1968, here is the list of winners of the tournament:
- 2021: Stefanos Tsitsipas
- 2020: tournament canceled
- 2019: Fabio Fognini
- 2018: Rafael Nadal
- 2017: Rafael Nadal
- 2016: Rafael Nadal
- 2015: Novak Djokovic
- 2014: Stan Wawrinka
- 2013: Novak Djokovic
- 2012: Rafael Nadal
- 2011: Rafael Nadal
- 2010: Rafael Nadal
- 2009: Rafael Nadal
- 2008: Rafael Nadal
- 2007: Rafael Nadal
- 2006: Rafael Nadal
- 2005: Rafael Nadal
- 2004: Guillermo Coria
- 2003: Juan Carlos Ferrero
- 2002: Juan Carlos Ferrero
- 2001: Gustavo Kuerten
- 2000: Cédric Pioline
- 1999: Gustavo Kuerten
- 1998: Carlos Moya
- 1997: Marcelo Rios
- 1996: Thomas Muster
- 1995: Thomas Muster
- 1994: Andrei Medvedev
- 1993: Sergi Bruguera
- 1992: Thomas Muster
- 1991: Sergi Bruguera
- 1990: Andrei Chesnokov
- 1989: Alberto Mancini
- 1988: Ivan Lendl
- 1987: Mats Wilander
- 1986: Joakim Nystrom
- 1985: Ivan Lendl
- 1984: Henrik Sundstrom
- 1983: Mats Wilander
- 1982: Guillermo Vilas
- 1981: Guillermo Vilas/Jimmy Connors (final not played due to rain)
- 1980: Bjorn Borg
- 1979: Bjorn Borg
- 1978: Raúl Ramírez
- 1977: Bjorn Borg
- 1976: Guillermo Vilas
- 1975: Manuel Orantes
- 1974: Andrew Pattison
- 1973: Illi Nastase
- 1972: Illi Nastase
- 1971: Illi Nastase
- 1970: Zeljko Franulovic
- 1969: Tom Okker
- 1968: Nicola Pietrangeli