Roland Garros 2012: Men's Singles qualifying action starts May 21

Weather permitting, men’s singles qualifying action signals the start of the French Open grand slam tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris. Sixteen spots are available for qualifiers in the main draw and for each spot; eight tennis players will be jockeying to see who can win that precious opportunity to participate in the main draw. First round qualifying starts in the outside courts of Roland Garros on Tuesday, May 22. Players need to win three rounds to obtain one of the sixteen main draw slots allotted.

This year’s men’s singles qualifying draw has been published earlier today, Monday, and the draw contains an interesting mix of players – young and old alike. Amongst the seeded players are top 100 players in no. 89 Marinko MATOSEVIC of Australia and no. 100 Matthias BACHINGER of Germany. Matosevic and Bachinger are seeded no. 1 and no. 2 respectively. Also in the draw as the no. 11 seed is former world no. 2 Tommy HAAS of Germany, and former world no. 15 Robby GINEPRI of the United States.

Check out the list below for the full schedule of play in Roland Garros 2012 first round of men’s qualifying:

Court 2

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Robert Farah(COL) vs. Marco Trungelliti(ARG)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Maximo Gonzalez(ARG) vs. Laurynas Grigelis(LTU)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Matteo Viola(ITA) vs. Franco Skugor(CRO)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Erik Chvojka(CAN) vs. Jan Mertl(CZE)

Court 3

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Ivan Navarro(ESP) vs. Denis Gremelmayr(GER)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Guillermo Olaso(ESP) vs. Kamil Capkovic(SVK)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Inigo Cervantes(ESP) vs. Stefan Seifert(GER)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Gianluca Naso(ITA) vs. Yuichi Sugita(JPN)

Court 6

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Tommy Haas(GER)[11] vs. Guido Pella(ARG)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Gastao Elias(POR) vs. Nicolas Devilder(FRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Horacio Zeballos(ARG)[8] vs. Stephane Robert(FRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Carlos Salamanca(COL) vs. Marc Gicquel(FRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Maxime Teixeira(FRA) vs. Marco Chiudinelli(SUI)[26]

Court 7

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Florent Serra(FRA) vs. Rik De Voest(RSA)[31]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Antonio Veic(CRO)[15] vs. Kenny De Schepper(FRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Stefano Galvani(ITA) vs. Augustin Gensse(FRA)[30]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Josselin Ouanna(FRA) vs. Teymuraz Gabashvili(RUS)[32]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Pierre-Hugues Herbert(FRA) vs. Axel Michon(FRA)

Court 8

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Amer Delic(BIH) vs. Ruben Bemelmans(BEL)[23]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Peter Torebko(GER) vs. Jamie Baker(GBR)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Hiroki Moriya(JPN) vs. Josh Goodall(GBR)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Denis Kudla(USA) vs. James Ward(GBR)[29]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Filip Krajinovic(SRB) vs. Dusan Lojda(CZE)

Court 9

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Ivo Minar(CZE) vs. Andrey Golubev(KAZ)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Roberto Bautista-Agut(ESP)[13] vs. Mischa Zverev(GER)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Rogerio Dutra Silva(BRA)[16] vs. Dustin Brown(GER)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Izak Van Der Merwe(RSA) vs. Thiago Alves(BRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Tsung-Hua Yang(TPE) vs. Aljaz Bedene(SLO)[28]

Court 10

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Dusan Lajovic(SRB) vs. Joao Sousa(POR)[27]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Konstantin Kravchuk(RUS) vs. Marsel Ilhan(TUR)[18]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Peter Gojowczyk(GER) vs. Wayne Odesnik(USA)[25]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Martin Fischer(AUT) vs. Robby Ginepri(USA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Paul Capdeville(CHI)[6] vs. Yannick Mertens(BEL)

Court 11

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Michael Russell(USA)[10] vs. Simon Greul(GER)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Jesse Huta Galung(NED) vs. Simone Vagnozzi(ITA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Daniel Brands(GER)[5] vs. James Duckworth(AUS)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Matthias Bachinger(GER)[2] vs. Adrian Menendez-Maceiras(ESP)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Yuri Schukin(KAZ) vs. Bobby Reynolds(USA)[24]

Court 12

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Pavol Cervenak(SVK) vs. Grega Zemlja(SLO)[20]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Greg Jones(AUS) vs. Jan Hernych(CZE)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Diego Junqueira(ARG) vs. Igor Sijsling(NED)[17]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Ze Zhang(CHN) vs. Nikola Ciric(SRB)

Court 14

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Michael Berrer(GER)[12] vs. Fabrice Martin(FRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Federico Delbonis(ARG)[14] vs. Tim Smyczek(USA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Maxime Authom(BEL) vs. Harri Heliovaara(FIN)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Facundo Bagnis(ARG) vs. Eduardo Schwank(ARG)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Agustin Velotti(ARG) vs. Andreas Haider-Maurer(AUT)

Court 15

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Martin Alund(ARG) vs. Danai Udomchoke(THA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Julio Silva(BRA) vs. Daniel Munoz-De La Nava(ESP)[21]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Frederico Gil(POR)[7] vs. Jerzy Janowicz(POL)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Jurgen Zopp(EST)[3] vs. Philipp Oswald(AUT)

Court 16

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Benjamin Mitchell(AUS) vs. Albano Olivetti(FRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Vincent Millot(FRA) vs. Sergei Bubka(UKR)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Laurent Rochette(FRA) vs. Victor Estrella(DOM)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Julien Obry(FRA) vs. Jesse Levine(USA)[22]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Amir Weintraub(ISR) vs. Andrey Kuznetsov(RUS)

Court 17

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Romain Jouan(FRA) vs. Evgeny Donskoy(RUS)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
David Goffin(BEL)[9] vs. Gregoire Burquier(FRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Javier Marti(ESP) vs. David Guez(FRA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Marinko Matosevic(AUS)[1] vs. Mathieu Rodrigues(FRA)

Court 18

10:00 AM Start Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Alex Kuznetsov(USA) vs. Michael Yani(USA)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Arnau Brugues-Davi(ESP) vs. Jan Hajek(CZE)[19]

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Peter Polansky(CAN) vs. Thomas Schoorel(NED)

Men's Qualifying Singles - 1st Round
Karol Beck(SVK)[4] vs. Jimmy Wang(TPE)