Felix Auger-Aliassime is celebrating his 100th career week inside the ATP Top 10 as the clay-court major approaches. The Canadian has reached the milestone in four separate stints: November 15th to 21st, 2001 (one week), January 10th to September 11th, 2022 (35 weeks), October 17th, 2022 to June 11th, 2023 (34 weeks) and October 27th, 2025 to present (30 weeks and counting).

Auger-Aliassime is currently at his career-high ranking of No. 5 and joins a small group of players born in the 2000s to accumulate triple-digit weeks in the elite. The draft notes he reached the mark “after exactly who you’re thinking.”

The milestone places him among the longest-serving Canadians to reach the Top 10. He becomes the second Canadian to log that many weeks at the top of the rankings, following Milos Raonic, who spent 151 weeks in the Top 10 across the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons. Denis Shapovalov is the only other Canadian to have reached the ATP Top 10, spending 10 weeks there across 2020 and 2021.

The pattern of Auger-Aliassime’s tenure in the Top 10—multiple returns to the group rather than a single continuous stretch—highlights his resilience and consistency at the highest level. As Roland Garros nears, the 100-week marker is a reminder of his standing on the ATP Tour and of the depth of Canadian men’s tennis in this period.

Learner Tien closed out Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight tiebreak sets at the Gonet Geneva Open, defeating the 2021 Roland Garros finalist 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2). The young American’s win ended Tsitsipas’ Geneva run and left the former world No. 3 preparing for Roland Garros unseeded.

Tsitsipas had opened his Geneva campaign with an encouraging straight-sets victory over Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, but he failed to find critical consistency against Tien and finished his clay swing heading to Paris with a 4-5 record this season on the surface. The result also continued a difficult stretch for the 27-year-old, who has battled injuries and inconsistency in 2026 and dropped outside the Top 80 in the ATP rankings as of last week.

Reflecting on his recovery and outlook during a recent press conference at the Mutua Madrid Open, Tsitsipas said: “When I was injured I lost passion and love for the game,” and added, “I kept showing up though. Despite my injury in the back, I kept showing up on court and trying to make the most out of it. It’s frustrating when you’re always injured and you’re always feeling hurt. It doesn’t make you love the game too much.

“I can finally kind of say that, going back into the court now, it feels a really joyful thing to do. Like, there isn’t much of stress whether I’m going to be fit enough because of my back.”

Roland Garros has been Tsitsipas’ most consistent major: he reached the semifinals in 2020 and made quarterfinals in 2023 and 2024. His most recent run on the terre battue ended in the second round against Italian qualifier Matteo Gigante. Being unseeded at a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2018 Roland Garros opens the possibility of a tough first-round draw, where he could face top seeds such as Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, or Novak Djokovic in the opening match.

One-Slam Wonder is a label that can both honor an unlikely peak and suggest it will remain unique. Roland Garros 2026 will feature 10 one-time major champions in the draw — two men and eight women — and each arrives with a realistic route to chase a second Grand Slam.

On the men’s side Daniil Medvedev and Marin Cilic present contrasting cases. Medvedev’s consistency is underlined by 43 tour finals, yet clay has been a clear obstacle: he failed to win a match at Roland Garros in his first four attempts (2017-2020) and advanced as far as the quarterfinals only once, where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas. Last year Medvedev changed his strings during his first-round clash with Cameron Norrie, hoping to find better feel. “This one (tournament) is so different from Rome and Madrid,” he told reporters after the match. “The clay, the balls, like, everything. I had one week here (in Paris). I didn’t find anything that worked well. So during the match, I had to change something when I was losing. It actually worked. Unfortunately I didn’t win.” After mounting a furious comeback he lost a long fifth set.

Cilic offers the deeper Paris résumé. He beat Medvedev in the 2022 fourth round in straight sets and posted his best Roland Garros showing with a semifinal loss to Casper Ruud. Serious knee problems soon forced him off the tour. At 6-foot-6 his forehand is massive; his serve carried him to four Wimbledon quarterfinals and a 2016 championship match, a loss to Roger Federer. Cilic joined then-coach Goran Ivanisevic as the second Croatian man to win a major singles title.

The women’s one-time champions in Paris are Caroline Wozniacki, Madison Keys, Marketa Vondrousova, Emma Raducanu, Sofia Kenin, Bianca Andreescu, Sloane Stephens and Jelena Ostapenko. Wozniacki, the 2018 Australian Open champion, has three children, has worked as a broadcast analyst and retains a “protected ranking” (No. 71, based on her position when she stopped competing in 2024); direct entry is unlikely. Keys finally won a major in 2025 after a career that began with an Australian Open semifinal at 19 and includes 11 quarterfinals or better, five semifinals and a 2015 US Open final. Vondrousova won her first main tour title at Biel-Bienne at 17 and, as Mats Wilander has said, she has “the best hands in the women’s game.” Injuries, surgeries and other interruptions leave several participations uncertain, but Paris gives every one-time champion a clear chance to enlarge a solitary major into a broader legacy.