World number
one Novak Djokovic and nine-time champion Rafael Nadal have been seeded to meet
in the French Open semifinals after the draw was made on Friday.
Djokovic
needs a Roland Garros title to complete a career Grand Slam after losing three
finals in four years including last season to Stan Wawrinka.
Fourth seed
Wawrinka is scheduled to take on second seed Andy Murray in the other
semifinal.
Top seed
Djokovic, bidding for a 12th career major, starts his campaign against Taiwan's
Lu Yen-Hsun, the world number 110 who made the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2010.
Djokovic is seeded to face Tomas Berdych in the last-eight.
Nadal, who
lost to Djokovic in the quarterfinals in 2015, had originally been set to be
seeded at five until 2009 champion Roger Federer withdrew through injury on
Thursday.
Fourth seed
Nadal starts his French Open against big-serving Sam Groth of Australia with a
potential quarterfinal against home hope Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Murray,
fresh from beating Djokovic in the Rome Masters final last weekend, will meet a
qualifier in the first round with a potential quarterfinal against Japan's Kei
Nishikori. Wawrinka opens against Lukas Rosol, the Czech player who shocked
Nadal at Wimbledon in 2012, while his potential last-eight rival would be
Canada's Milos Raonic.
In the
women's draw, defending champion and top seed Serena Williams, bidding for a
fourth Paris title and 22nd Grand Slam crown, starts against Slovakia's
Magdalena Rybarikova, the world number 76.
The
27-year-old Slovak has never made it beyond the second round in Paris.
Williams
could face 2010 champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy in the third round.
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