French Open 2022: When is the second tennis major of the year, how can I watch it on television in the UK, how much is the prize money and is Andy Murray playing?

The world’s best tennis players will travel to Paris later this month to take part in a tournament that could see history made.

The singles tournaments at Roland Garros will see 128 men and 128 battling to join Australian Open champions Rafael Nadal and Ashleigh Barty as 2022 major winners.

To do so they’ll have to win seven matches in a row in front of capacity crowds in Paris.

In the men’s tournament Rafael Nadal will be looking to extend his incredible record of both most French Open titles (13) and most major wins (21) after overtaking rivals Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic by winning this year’s Australian Open.

Federer is absent from this year’s tournament, but Djokovic will be hoping to defend the trophy he lifted last year to equal Nadal’s overall total major wins.

Here’s everything you need to know about the tournament.

The tournament will run from Sunday, May 22, to Sunday, June 5, with the key dates in the singles tournaments as follows:

First round: May 22, 23, 24.

Second round: May 25, 26.

Third round: May 27, 28.

Fourth round: May 29, 30.

Quarter-finals: May 31, June 1.

Semi-finals: June 2, 3.

Women's final: June 4.

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Men's final: June 5.

It’s not officially been confirmed when the draw for the tournamnet wilol be made, but it’s usually three days before the first round, so is likely to be on May 19 in France.

There will be a total of 32 players seeded in each of the singles draws, meaning the world’s best players will not meet each other until later in the tournament.

Rafael Nadal is favourite to take the men’s title at 13/8, followed by Carlos Alcaraz (2/1), Novak Djokovic (11/4), Stefanos Tsitsipas (11/2) and Alexander Zverev