Kyle Edmund to face Australian teenager Alex de Minaur in French Open first round

Kyle Edmund to face Australian teenager Alex de Minaur in French Open first round after being seeded No 16 at Roland Garros

Kyle Edmund will play Australian teenager Alex de Minaur in the first round of the French Open, which starts on Sunday.

Edmund represents the best chance of maintaining direct British singles interest into the second week, and as sixteenth seed – his first Slam seeding – he will face the highly-rated youngster.

Things could get difficult from the third round onwards, as he would be expected to meet mercurial Italian Fabio Fognini in the last 32 and then possibly Marin Cilic in the fourth round, which he made last year. 

Kyle Edmund will play Australian teenager Alex de Minaur in the first round of the French Open

Cameron Norrie, the other British man in the draw, will face improving German Peter Gojowczyk, but should do so with plenty of confidence. 

Earlier on Thursday he scored his best career win by ranking when he beat America’s John Isner to reach the semi-final of the ATP event in Lyon. 

He meets Frenchman Gilles Simon on Friday

Rafael Nadal, strongly favoured to win an eleventh Paris title, begins against Alex Dolgopolov and is in the opposite half of the draw to Novak Djokovic.

The British No 1 is seeded 16th after recently breaking into the world's top 20

The British No 1 is seeded 16th after recently breaking into the world’s top 20

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