With the Roland Garros 2017 set to kick off on Sunday in Paris, SI's tennis experts and writers Jon Wertheim, Stanley Kay, Jamie Lisanti and Daniel Rapaport discuss this year’s top storylines and predict the winners.
What did the clay court lead-up tournaments teach you?
Jon Wertheim: Rafael Nadal is superawesome at claycourt tennis. (But beatable, under the right circumstances.) Alexander Zverev deserves his No. 2 seeding (but still needs to prove himself in a best-of-five format.) Maria Sharapova and Novak Djokovic have life in them yet (but neither is in position to add to their haul of French Open titles.