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The French Open, also known as Roland-Garros, is an annual tennis tournament held over two weeks in May and June. Established in 1891 and played since 1928 on outdoor red clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, the French Open is (since 1925) one of the four Grand Slam tournaments played each year, the other three being the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open.
- 1891 (established), 1925 (Grand Slam event)
- Paris, France
2023. Dino Prižmić. Alina Korneeva. Yaroslav Demin. Rodrigo Pacheco Méndez. Tyra Caterina Grant. Clervie Ngounoue. ‡ = a player who won both the junior and senior title. † = a player who won the junior title and reached the senior final.
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Officially named in French Internationaux de France de Tennis ("French Internationals of Tennis" in English), the tournament uses the name Roland-Garros in all languages, and it is usually called the French Open in English. (The stadium and tournament are both hyphenated as Roland-Garros because French spelling rules dictate that in the name of a p...
The French Open has been the only major played on clay courts since 1978, when the US Open changed to hard courts. Clay courts slow down the ball and produce a high bounce when compared with grass courts or hard courts. For this reason, clay courts take away some of the advantages of big servers and serve-and-volleyers, which makes it hard for thes...
The trophies have been awarded to the winners since 1953 and are manufactured by Mellerio dits Meller, a famous Parisian jewelry house. They are all made of pure silver with finely etched decorations on their side. Each new singles winner gets his or her name written on the base of the trophy. Winners receive custom-made pure silver replicas of the...
Former champions
1. Men's singles, winners of the Coupe des Mousquetaires.[d] 2. Women's singles, winners of the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen.[e] 3. Men's doubles, winners of the Coupe Jacques Brugnon. 4. Women's doubles, winners of the Coupe Simone Mathieu. 5. Mixed doubles, winners of the Coupe Marcel Bernard. 6. All champions
French Championships (1891–1924) was only open to French clubs' members. In 1925, it opened to international players, and was later renamed the French Open in 1968, when it allowed professionals to...
France
France Télévisions and Amazon Prime Video hold the broadcast rights to the French Open until 2027. All 11 "night sessions" will remain exclusive to Prime Video.Studio presentation for the French Open on France Télévisions is hosted by Laurent Luyat and is historically located on a terrace in a corner of the Court Philippe Chatrier.
United Kingdom
BBC began broadcasting French Open finals annually in 1981 (often in their Grandstand or Sunday Grandstand programmes). The BBC's coverage continued until 2011. From 2012 until 2021, ITV Sport televised the French Open in United Kingdom. Eurosport began broadcasting the French open in 1989. As of 2022 onwards, Eurosport hold exclusive UK broadcast rights to the tournament. Studio presentation for the French Open on Eurosport is hosted by Barbara Schett with Mats Wilander. Commentators include...
India
In India, Star Sports had the exclusive broadcast rights of the French Open tennis tournament. However, Sony Pictures Sports Network owned by Sony Pictures Networks Indiahas bagged the broadcast rights from 2022 onwards.
For the 2024 French Open, 280 "ramasseurs de balles" (literally "gatherers of balls" in English) are scheduled to be selected for the tournament. Aged between 11 and 16 years old and dressed in matching Lacoste shirts and shorts, the ball boys and ball girls are chosen to take part in the French Open through an application process, only available t...
(in French) Roland-Garros on France Télévisions(in French) Roland-Garros on ina.fr : more than 600 hours of archive footage- S (128Q) / 64D (16Q)
- Paris, XVIth arrondissement, France
- 1891; 132 years ago
- €49,600,000 (2023)
Suzanne Lenglen. 1921. Jean Samazeuilh. Suzanne Lenglen. 1920. André Gobert. Suzanne Lenglen. Check the updated ranking of all the winners of the French Open year by year since the beginning in 1920.
2 days ago · Justine Henin competing in the women's final at the 2007 French Open; she defeated Ana Ivanovic in straight sets. In 1891 the first French national championships were held in the Stade Français, as a men’s interclub competition. In 1897 women’s singles matches were added to tournament play. Women’s doubles matches were added in 1925, the ...
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Jun 11, 2023 · Novak Djokovic has won his men’s-record 23rd Grand Slam title with a 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5 victory over Casper Ruud in the French Open final. Djokovic broke a tie with Rafael Nadal for the most major singles trophies in the history of men’s tennis. Nadal is a 14-time champion at Roland Garros who missed the tournament because he is injured. Djokovic adds to the French Open titles he earned in ...
Jun 9, 2019 · The incredible Rafael Nadal extended his record-breaking reign at Roland-Garros by winning a 12th men's singles title with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 victory over Dominic Thiem in the final. It was the second successive year the great Spaniard had lifted the Coupe des Mousquetaires after beating the Austrian. All the winners from the 2019 tournament ...
