PARIS — Jannik Sinner passed his first test back on tour after a doping ban — a run to last weekend’s final at the Italian Open , where his tennis felt good and looked good, and the statistics he studied afterward backed that up.

Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and world number one Jannik Sinner resume the hottest rivalry in men's tennis at the French Open, where Novak Djokovic will fly the flag for the old guard as the claycourt Grand Slam enters the post-Rafa Nadal era.