Bankroll Sports is getting all revved up for the French Open, and we’re the home for all of your women’s tennis betting action. Today, we’re taking a look at the odds to win the second leg of the women’s Grand Slam at Roland Garros before the tournament gets started this week!

The defending champion of this event is Svetlana Kuznetsova (+1200 at Sportsbook.com). It marked her first French Open championship and just her second Grand Slam title in her illustrious career, which began in 2002. The #7 ranked player in the world will inevitably play well in this tournament and might be worthwhile to invest in. She has played in six straight fourth rounds and four straight quarterfinals at this event. However, she’s going to have a difficult draw that is littered with a ton of the top ranked women in the world that she’ll have to get through.

The favorite to win this event is Justine Henin (+150 at Sportsbook.com). Henin might be the best player in this field in spite of the fact that she is only ranked 20th in the world. She finished as the runner up in the Australian Open this year after taking almost two full years off from the sport. She has four French Open titles under her belt (2003, ’05, ’06, and ’07) and has been truly dominant on the clay courts. However, at just +150, we can’t see supporting her.

Instead, the second favorite might be one to watch, Serena Williams (+500 at Sportsbook.com). The younger Williams sister has played in nine French Opens and does has one championship to her name (2002). She was bounced in the quarterfinals last year, as she has been in three of her L/4 appearances at Roland Garros. However, it’s hard to argue that Williams isn’t one of the hottest players on tour, as in her L/7 Grand Slam appearances, she has four wins, a runner up, a semifinal defeat, and a quarterfinal defeat. She has only failed to reach the quarterfinals of a major once since the 2006 US Open.

A woman that made a real name for herself last year at Roland Garros was Samantha Stosur (+1500 at Sportsbook.com). She made it all the way to the semifinals as the #30 seed in this tournament a year ago before running into Kuznetsova. She took the Russian to three sets and had several chances to win the match before losing 6-3 in the final set. Since then, the Aussie has gotten herself up to the #8 ranking in the world and looks primed to make another solid run into the final week here at the French Open. She is 23-6 this year and had a fourth round exit at the Australian Open on her home turf.

The one thing that you’re going to want to stay away from is betting the field (+800 at Sportsbook.com). There are a heck of a lot of women that are listed here, and they’re all in the Top 30 in the world. A relative unknown hasn’t won this event since Anastasia Myskina won it in 2004.

Women’s French Open Odds @ Sportsbook.com (as of 5/16/10):
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Agnieszka Radwanska +10000
Ana Ivanovic +2000
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova +8000
Carla Suarez Navarro +8000
Caroline Wozniacki +1500
Dinara Safina +2000
Elena Dementieva +2000
Flavia Pennetta +10000
Jelena Jankovic +800
Justine Henin +150
Maria Sharapova +4000
Samantha Stosur +1500
Serena Williams +500
Svetlana Kuznetsova +1200
Venus Williams +1500
Vera Zvonareva +4000
Victoria Azarenka +1200
Yanina Wickmayer +2500
Field +800

The clay courts of Roland Garros will be on full display next weekend for the French Open, and here at Bankroll Sports, we’re going to take our first look at the players in the field and how they’re going to stack up against each other for the second jewel of tennis’ Grand Slam!

For the first time in awhile, we no longer have to ask this question to Roger Federer (+450 at Sportsbook.com): Are you ever going to win the career Grand Slam? Federer finally captured the French Open, and he did so by dropping just five sets during the entire tournament. His biggest challenge came in the Round of 32 against Tommy Haas, as he had to come back from a two sets to love deficit to win 6-4, 6-0, 6-2 in the final three stanzas. The 16 time Grand Slam Singles champion has played in eight straight major tournament finals, and he has made it to at least the semifinals every grand slam tourney since the 2004 French Open, a span of 23 straight majors.

However, the biggest question that is still looming over Federer’s head is whether or not he can beat Rafael Nadal (-275 at Sportsbook.com) on the clay courts or not. Rafa is clearly the odds on favorite in this event, as last year snapped a stretch of 31 straight matches worth of victories at Roland Garros when he lost to Robin Soderling (+3000 at Sportsbook.com) in the fourth round of this event. Soderling went on to lose to Federer in the finale.

Nadal hasn’t totally been himself since his elimination at last year’s French Open, as he has battled injuries and hasn’t captured many titles. He has dropped to the #3 ranking in the world for his struggles, but no one is going to bet against him on the clay courts any time early in this tournament. Nadal has won four French Open titles and has two other Grand Slam trophies on his mantle.

Aside from these two monsters of men’s tennis, there really aren’t a lot of contenders to consider. Don’t even remotely consider taking the field (+1000 at Sportsbook.com). All of the players listed are really the only ones that have a chance of claiming glory at Roland Garros. Soderling became the first player not named Nadal or Federer to be in the French Open Final since Gaston Gaudio beat Guillermo Coria in the 2004 finale.

If you’re looking to step outside of the box and take a chance on someone else, both Andy Murray (+2500 at Sportsbook.com) and Novak Djokovic (+1000 at Sportsbook.com) are going to be hanging around deep into this tournament and could pull upsets of one of the Big 2. Djokovic has worked his way up to the world’s #2 ranking, and many think that he is the future of men’s tennis. However, a 283-93 career record has only yielded one major championship (2008 Australian Open), and he has only played in two French Open semifinals. Murray won’t have the crowd on his side since he is a Brit playing in France, but the young gun did get off to a great start this year at the Aussie Open, finishing runner up to Federer. Last year’s quarterfinal appearance was the best in Murray’s young career.

One thing to keep an eye on in specific matches is that aforementioned home court advantage that Murray certainly won’t have coming from a rival country. However, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (+10000 at Sportsbook.com) and Gael Monfils (+6000 at Sportsbook.com) both will. Tsonga, the 10th ranked player in the world coming into the French Open, went to the fourth round last year at Roland Garros and has already gone to the Australian Open semis this year. Monfils, who is the 19th ranked player in the world, went to the quarterfinals last year before losing to Federer. He also went to the semifinals in 2008. However, the knock on Monfils is that those are the only two Grand Slam quarterfinals that he has ever reached.

French Open Odds @ Sportsbook.com (as of 5/15/10):
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Andy Murray +2500
Andy Roddick +10000
David Ferrer +3000
David Nalbandian +6000
Ernests Gulbis +3000
Fernando Gonzalez +8000
Fernando Verdasco +2500
Gael Monfils +6000
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga +10000
Juan Carlos Ferrero +6000
Marin Cilic +8000
Nikolay Davydenko +2500
Novak Djokovic +1000
Rafael Nadal -275
Robin Soderling +3000
Roger Federer +450
Stanislas Wawrinka +10000
Tomas Berdych +10000
Field +1000