 What's going on everybody welcome back to another video and we're putting out a video series of all the players that are contenders at the French open Going through their likely road to the final and to the title for RG We're gonna start with the world number one Novak Djokovic This is what he's projected road to the final and to the title is gonna be for 2021 So his first round opponent is locked in he's playing tennis sangren in the first round He actually has a 3-0 head-to-head record against sangren, but they have never played on a clay court So you would expect that Djokovic he's gonna get through that match second round opponent is most likely gonna be Luca Pui The Frenchman and Djokovic also has a 3-0 head-to-head record against Pui So again, you would expect that Djokovic is gonna get through that one His third round opponent is projected to be the number 29 seed and Frenchman Hugo Wimbare and these two have only played the one time with Djokovic getting the straightseds win at Wimbledon two years ago So you'd expect again Djokovic to get through that match on experience in his fourth round There are two potential opponents the 13th seed David Golfan is the highest seed in this part of the draw along with Djokovic But Djokovic has a 7-1 record over Golfan So if they do meet in the fourth round Djokovic will be loving that matchup and the other opponent He could potentially play is the 21st seed Diminor now these two have never played So out of the two potential fourth round opponents being either Golfan or Diminor He definitely rather face Diminor a guy that he's never played before going on to the quarter finals now There are two big names that Djokovic is likely to face in the quarter finals first one Roger Federer The number eight seed in this tournament and these two have played a lot of times to 450 times in fact with Djokovic leading the head-to-head 27-23 but I think the lack of match play for Federer over the last couple of years heavily favours Djokovic if they do meet in That quarter-final the more likely scenario is that Djokovic is gonna have to play the number nine seed Theo Baratini who has been very good on the clay in 2021 these two have only played the one time back in 2019 at the Nido finals with Djokovic winning in straight set so if Djokovic has to face Federer or Baratini He'll be feeling good about his chances of making the semi-finals onto the semi-finals now And that's when things get serious Nadal He'll be waiting in the semi-finals maybe Rubelev as well But most likely Rafa and Djokovic just lost to Rafa a couple of weeks ago in Rome on the clay courts He does have a winning head-to-head record against Rafa, but it's 29 28 So that gap slowly closing but if he does play against Rubelev He'll be feeling a hell of a lot better because Djokovic and Rubelev have never played before and Rubelev is probably gonna have to Beat Nadal to get to the semi-finals, which is a big win in itself and then play Novak the next day You'd expect Djokovic to beat Rubelev and then on to the final There are three most likely scenarios happening for Djokovic if he does make the final He's probably gonna be either facing City pass Dominic team or Alexander Zverev now He has a 5-2 record against a final City pass and the two did play at the French open last year in the semi-finals And it went five sets so it's gonna be an epic match if they do play in that final because the clay courts If team was to make the final and Djokovic was to play team It's a 7-5 record in favor of Djokovic with Djokovic leading 4-3 on clay courts Dominic team did win the last one though And that was at the French open semi-finals two years ago and it was a five-set epic if Djokovic was to play Zverev However, he has a 6-2 record over Sasha Zverev having won their last five meetings Including their last one on clay in straight sets at this French open in 2019 So if Djokovic could pick who he wants to play in the final out of those three He's probably gonna want to pick Zverev so there you have it They are all the scenarios for Novak Djokovic potentially of course these are just projected it could be there could be upsets There could be anybody making into the semi-finals quarter-finals final But they are the most likely opponents for Novak Djokovic going into the French open and going to win the title He's gonna have to beat a lot of those names. Let me know down in the comments below How far will he go can he make it past Rafa in the semi-finals or will he only make it to the semi-finals? Maybe even the quarter-finals Baratini Federer. They're gonna be looming large in that quarter-final potentially as well The Novak Djokovic. He's got a pretty tough road to the final after the first week