Roland Garros 2025 Withdrawal List: Arthur Fils and Carlos Alcaraz Among 11 Players to Miss French Open

Roland Garros has been hit by a wave of withdrawals ahead of the 2025 edition, with 11 players — seven from the ATP and four from the WTA — now confirmed absent from the main draw.

Among the most notable absentees on the men’s side is home favourite Arthur Fils, who confirmed his withdrawal after French Open organisers announced he had pulled out following a practice session against compatriot Gaël Monfils on Saturday. The 21-year-old, seeded 17th, had been nursing a hip injury sustained during his opening match at the Italian Open against Andrea Pellegrino, where he retired trailing 0-4.

“I won’t be able to play here this year,” Fils said. “I felt it coming, I did everything to be ready, but I wouldn’t have been able to be at 100% if I had played here. I’m not even sure I’m at 50%.”

The withdrawal is a significant setback for French tennis. Fils had shown strong form in the lead-up to the claycourt season, winning the Barcelona Open and advancing to the semi-finals of the Madrid Open, where he lost to eventual champion Jannik Sinner. That run had helped him return to the top 20 in the ATP Rankings after slipping outside the top 30 earlier in the year due to a back injury that disrupted much of the second half of the 2024 season. He had also reached the quarter-final at Indian Wells and the semi-final in Miami during the Sunshine Double. His place in the draw has been taken by Dutch lucky loser Jesper de Jong, while his scheduled first-round opponent, Stan Wawrinka, has been promoted following the withdrawal of world No. 9 Lorenzo Musetti, who is sidelined with a thigh injury. Musetti had reached the semi-finals at Roland Garros in 2024.

The highest-profile withdrawal on the men’s side remains two-time defending champion and world No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz, who is absent with a wrist injury. The Spaniard’s absence leaves the field without one of its most dominant clay-court performers in recent years. Daniel Merida steps in as his replacement.

Fils is the third seed to exit the tournament before it begins, joining Alcaraz and Musetti. In total, seven ATP players have now withdrawn from Roland Garros 2025.

Full ATP French Open withdrawal list:

– Carlos Alcaraz (world No. 2) — replaced by Daniel Merida

– Lorenzo Musetti (world No. 9) — replaced by Stan Wawrinka

– Arthur Fils (world No. 19) — replaced by Jesper de Jong

– Holger Rune (world No. 43) — replaced by Benjamin Bonzi

– Sebastian Korda (world No. 46) — replaced by Coleman Wong

– Jack Draper (world No. 74) — replaced by Matteo Arnaldi

– Arthur Cazaux (world No. 76) — replaced by Rinky Hijikata

On the women’s side, the seeded draw remains intact with none of the top 32 players having withdrawn. The most prominent absentee is former Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová, ranked world No. 44, who has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) for missing a drug test. She has been replaced by Veronika Erjavec.

Full WTA French Open withdrawal list:

– Markéta Vondroušová (world No. 44) — replaced by Veronika Erjavec

– Sonay Kartal (world No. 60) — replaced by Tamara Korpatsch

– Varvara Gracheva (world No. 67) — replaced by Daria Snigur

– Veronika Kudermetova (world No. 87) — replaced by Francesca Jones

With Roland Garros now underway, the depleted men’s draw opens the door for players such as Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev — himself dealing with an injury concern after being seen in discomfort during practice — to assert themselves as frontrunners for the title.