As The Body Serve heads to Paris for the first time, here’s our preview of the 2026 edition of Roland Garros, where Jannik Sinner seeks to make more history and a number of top women find themselves in position to snatch. As usual, we take you through both draws: a surprisingly balanced women’s draw (except for Iga -- sorry, girl) and a men’s draw with not much intrigue, at least on the surface. The players associated with Project Red Eye have staged a work-to-rule labour action, refusing rightsholder interviews and committing only 15 minutes to pre-tournament media activities. Also, the federal judge in the PTPA case couldn’t order Wimbledon and the French to give up those coveted press credentials. I guess they’re stuck buying tickets like everybody else!

1:05 Qualifiers: Sloane through; Plishy & Greg are not :(

4:45 This week: Casper, rest!

7:20 Women’s draw

20:20 Men’s draw

39:55 PTPA credentials drama: judge says it’s petty but what can I do, babes

42:50 Players stage a labour action!

49:05 Stevie Wonder, randomly

Jannik Sinner extends his Masters series win streak and his utter dominance over That Guy, while Marta Kostyuk back handsprings through her unbeaten clay season, grabbing her biggest career title over a bereft Mirra Andreeva. Now in Rome, the top players are demanding a fairer prize money split and genuine player consultation with Slams; several top players even endorsed a boycott if they can’t make progress, an utterance that would have been unheard of even a few years ago. We take some forays outside of the week’s news, as usual, chatting about tennis history, Whitney Houston, and the provenance of one of our social media handles.

1:50 Jannik wins 5 Masters in a row

5:10 The Gap™

13:20 Absolute cinema: the Madrid trophy presentation

26:05 Et ceteras: Prakash and Arthur, the Bezos Gala, Flavio says NO

31:05 Players take aim at RG: prize money/revenue split, player welfare, and consultation are the big issues

41:00 Italian Federation president said “Yes, and”

49:50 Whitney Houston dedicates Arthur Ashe Stadium

57:25 10 years ago: one of tennis’ great unhinged moments

Elina Svitolina wins her third Rome title with her most impressive run yet, while Jannik Sinner completes his box set of Masters titles and sets all sorts of records at the tiny age of 24. Daniil Medvedev tried his best to derail Sinner, and Casper went with a similar playbook – we shall see if prevailing through that rough semifinal will fuel Jannik further or give the other guys some hope (or both!). Darderi made a huge breakthrough on home soil, while That Guy crashed out in Tennis Channel’s IG replies (sad). Meanwhile, Carlos is on injury break and they’re still slutting him out in Vanity Fair. See you in Paris!

1:55 Mommy. Mamacita?

13:00 Jannik wins the Career Masters thing

19:25 Daniil, one of the few to shift a wig or two

28:05 Darderi breaks out, That Guy crashes out

34:50 Extras: Big Mama didn’t pay for Coco’s gelato; PTPA begs for a credential

38:35 Clay baby

42:50 We love delusion (respectful)

46:30 Random: trying Malta India from Puerto Rico (gracias, Francisco!)