The Spaniard endured a brutal start to his Roland Garros campaign, navigating past two crowd favorites to reach the third round, but had at least one Gaudian in the Galaxy in his corner.

It’s a question the country’s federation is trying hard to answer.

The pair of rising French talents will each make their main-draw debut at Roland Garros on Monday.

The two Frenchmen met for the Roland Garros junior title in 2021 and have both had breakthrough starts this season.

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic had to rally from a set down to beat 18-year-old Luca Van Assche 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-2 at the Srpska Open

The 19-year-old American, who was playing on hard courts just days ago, edged Veronika Kudermetova in the stacked Stuttgart tournament.

Van Assche, the youngest player in the ATP Top 100, defeated Stan Wawrinka in a first-round thriller on Monday.

Also: Italy's Martina Trevisan cracks the Top 20, and American Christopher Eubanks breaks into the Top 100.

The 18-year-old saved two match points to beat Ugo Humbert in an all-French championship in Pau, in a staggering 3 hours, 56 minutes.

The 2020 finalist received a wild-card entry along with Americans Taylor Townsend and Christopher Eubanks and French players Diane Parry and Luca Van Assche.