Why wait until Monday when you can get the French Open proceedings started on Sunday? Roland Garros is yet another Grand Slam event that is getting underway on Sunday instead of Monday – making the tournament 15 days long instead of 14. That is certainly music to the ears of tennis fans and bettors alike.
We can go ahead and capitalize on this extra-day opportunity while watching the likes of Novak Djokovic, Alexander Zverev, Mirra Andreeva and Belinda Bencic take the court.
Let’s take a look at the best bets to be made on the Day 1 schedule.
Parlay: Belinda Bencic ML over Sinja Kraus and Federico Cina ML over Reilly Opelka (-116)
Bencic is #11 in the world and an outside contender for the women’s title in Paris. Recent clay-court results include a quarterfinal performance in Charleston and a fourth-round showing at a 1000-point tournament Rome. At 24 years old, Kraus has never won a single main-draw match in a major in her entire career. Meanwhile, there probably aren’t many players in the field whom Opelka would beat right now. The big-serving American has always been at his worst on clay and also arrives at Roland Garros as a physical question mark (he recently retired from his opening match in Madrid in the first set and hasn’t played since). Opelka is 0-2 on clay so far this spring and has not won a match since the Miami Open second round. Cina qualified for the main draw of the French Open, so the 19-year-old Italian has some momentum and should be able to maintain it.
Mattia Bellucci vs Quentin Halys Under 39.5 games (-120)
Bellucci is pretty much an automatic Under play whenever the game total is set at any kind of reasonable number — and 39.5 certainly qualifies as such. Of the left-hander’s last 34 matches dating back to January, an almost hard-to-believe 29 have been straight-setters. There just isn’t any in between with this guy – the Italian is either great or terrible on any given day. In the only previous matchup between these 2 men (on grass last summer), a mere 18 total games were played across 2 sets.
Titouan Droguet +4.5 games over Jakub Mensik (-120)
This is a rematch of a 2023 U.S. Open second-round showdown – when both players were pretty much unheard of at the time. Only Mensik has climbed to relative stardom since that matchup, but the value here is on Droguet as a considerable underdog at home in France. The 24-year-old has always played his best tennis on clay and already boasts 8 match wins on this surface so far in 2026. Mensik, on the other hand, is a modest 3-3 on clay this spring – including 1-3 in his last 4 matches. Especially with what will surely be a racucous crowd behind him, Droguet has a great chance to pull off an outright upset.
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