The French Open, which starts Monday at Roland Garros, announced its seedings this morning, and tennis fans can already circle one date on the calendar: The semifinals, which likely will feature another epic Federer-Djokovic rematch. If Federer is to win his first Major since January 2010 – by far the longest drought since he won his first Major in 2003 – he’ll have to beat the No. 1 player in the world, Novak Djokovic, in the semifinals.

The last two times they’ve met at Majors have produced awesome matches:

* Federer was serving for the match at the US Open, then Djokovic won the next three sets to stun the Rocket.
* Federer started to blow out Djokovic, then had to hold him off at the French Open last year, snapping the Joker’s 43-match win streak.

Federer, who turns 31 in August, is probably the greatest tennis player ever – sorry, Pete Sampras – and the only Final he’s reached in the last eight majors is at Roland Garros. Clay is not his favorite surface – Federer’s won four Australian Open titles, six Wimbledon titles, and five US Opens. Federer only has one French Open championship, despite reaching the final five times (damn that Nadal – he’s got six French Open titles).