Daily Tennis Tips – Tuesday 27th May

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Tuesday May 27, 2025!

Ninth seed Alex de Minaur gets his French Open foray underway against Serbian veteran Laslo Djere.

De Minaur is 3-0 against Djere, most recently winning on grass at Den Bosch in 2023.

A French Open quarter-finalist for the first time last year, de Minaur is 9-4 on this clay swing with wins over the likes of Daniil Medvedev and Grigor Dimitrov – along with a couple of upset losses.

Djere shone on the South American clay swing earlier this year – reaching the Argentina Open semis and winning the Chile Open – while recent tournaments featured some good wins before running into Carlos Alcaraz in Monte-Carlo and Rome.

The 29-year-old, ranked 59th, is yet to make it past the third round at Roland Garros, while his only win against top-10 opposition since 2019 was against Casper Ruud in Auckland in 2023.

De Minaur doesn’t make a habit of falling to players outside the top 40 and has shown enough in his build-up to suggest he’ll progress comfortably.

Three-time grand slam finalist Ons Jabeur and 25th seed Magdalena Frech face off in one of the biggest French Open first-round encounters this year.

Jabeur won both the pair’s encounters to date, at Indian Wells and Wimbledon in 2023.

But the injury-plagued Jabeur is on a 1-5 run – including first-up losses to Moyuka Uchijima in Madrid and Jasmine Paolini in Rome, her only matches on clay this season – and has slipped to No.36 in the rankings.

The popular Tunisian was a French Open quarter-finalist in 2023-24.

Frech is just 6-13 in 2025 after surging into the top-25 in a rousing finish to last season. Top-10 opponents halted her progress in the Round of 32 in Madrid and Rome, but a first-up loss to Anna Blinkova in Strasbourg last week was more disappointing.

The Pole hasn’t been past the second round at Roland Garros, while her best grand slam effort was a fourth-round run at last year’s Australian Open. But she arguably shapes as the better option as a $2.90 outsider against an underdone Jabeur.

Armenia’s Elina Avanesyan and Ukrainian Anehlina Kalinina square off at grand slam level for the second time in less than a year at the French Open.

Their only previous clash was in the first round at Wimbledon last year, where Avanesyan powered to a 6-2 6-3 win.

World No.40 Avanesyan reached the fourth round at Roland Garros in 2023-24. But after semi-final runs in Brisbane and Akron earlier this year, her clay swing has consisted entirely of first-round losses to Caroline Dolehide in Madrid and Elisabetta Cocciaretto in Rome.

A top-25 player only two years ago, Kalinina is currently 113th. She also reached the Brisbane International semis but is just 4-11 on the WTA Tour since and has not played since the Open de Rouen (beating Nao Hibino and losing to Elina Svitolina) six weeks ago.

Avanesyan’s French Open record provides a decisive edge in a clash between two players short on confidence and court time.

Former top-10 star Hubert Hurkacz starts as a slight underdog in a tough French Open first-round assignment against boom Brazilian teen Joao Fonesca.

Hurkacz, the 30th seed, has recovered from a difficult, injury-hampered start to 2025 in recent weeks, however. He made it to the Rome Masters quarter-finals and last week’s Geneva Open final, beating Taylor Fritz before losing a marathon decider to Novak Djokovic.

World No.65 Fonesca won the Argentina Open in February after an eye-catching grand slam debut at the Australian Open, but his recent performances – including a first-round loss to Fabian Marozsan in Rome – have been more modest.

The 18-year-old is destined for the sport’s heights, but Hurkacz – a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2021 who reached the Round of 16 at Roland Garros for the second time last year – has the edge form-wise leading into this one.