"The French are clamoring for a Roland Garros champion, and underachieving Richard Gasquet may be their best shot"

Love it or hate it, the clay-court season is back.

Estoril, Valencia and Houston hosted smaller events last week, with this week's Monte Carlos Masters, housed at the Monte Carlo Country Club perched idyllically by the Mediterranean, the true men's curtain-raiser.

For the fourth straight year, Roger Federer, coach Jose Higueras in tow, seeks to complete his Grand Slam collection at the French Open, and bulging Spaniard Rafael Nadal tries to become the first man since Bjorn Borg to win four titles in a row in Paris. The rest of the field, led by Novak Djokovic, will try to join the fun.

Here are five burning questions ahead of the French, which begins in just more than a month....more

(via sports.espn.go.com)

Federer, Nadal, Roddick all have questions to answer