French Open

The French Open (French: Les Internationaux de France de Roland Garros or Tournoi de Roland-Garros) is a major tennis tournament in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. The French Open is the 2nd of the four Grand Slam events (French Open, Australian Open, US Open and Wimbledon) and is the leading clay court tennis tournament in the planet. The French Open is among the most famous events in tennis. Due to the slow playing surface and the five-set men’s singles with no tiebreak in the remaining set, the event is known as to be the most challenging tennis match in the world.

The French Open event began as a national event in 1891 since the Championat de France International de Tennis. In 1912, the French Open contest was held with a different floor (at the time all tennis performed was lawn tennis), a clay (“terre battue”), composed from the smashed wastes of red brick. Clay courts decelerate the ball and make a high reversal when comparing to grass courts or hard courts. For this reason, the clay court removes some benefit of huge acts, that makes it hard for offer based participants to rule on the surface.

Grounds Passes or “Annexe tickets”, are popular as there are several fits to take pleasure from through the entire competition externally courts or “courts annexes.” These French Open Grounds Passes will give you access to most of the exterior courts but do not provide access to the stadiums Phillipe Chatrier, Suzanne Lenglen, or Court 1. As they come on a come first get your chairs early served basis so it’s important to know where the matches you are interested in will be taking place. The initial week includes many singles matches. Whilst the match continues there’ll be largely principal pull doubles, mixed doubles, junior and senior matches played on the outside courts. Along with the action on the courts you will be able to enjoy all the excitement that Roland Garros is offering including the Practice Courts which are perfect for autographs, Souvenir Areas, Food places, and of course the excitement in the “Place des Mousquetaires” where hundreds of lovers congregate between Court 1 and Center Court Philippe Chatrier to look at the action taking place on the principal display courts on the Huge Screen.

A Ticket on Court Phillipe Chatrier or Suzanne Lenglen gives you a reserved seat for the whole day on that particular court with access to all the outside surfaces, but you do not have access to any of the other Show Courts including Court no 1 as each Show Court needs a individual admission. For instance, if you have a ticket for the Phillipe Chatrier Court you can not access the Suzanne Lenglen or Court 1 and vice versa. Both Show courts (Phillipe Chatrier and Suzanne Lenglen) offer  equal amount of fits through Wednesday of the Second week with top seeds people. From Thursday of the second week through the end of the tournament all presented singles matches are played only on the Phillipe Chatrier Center Court and thus all Show Court tickets from Thursday of the second week till the end of the tournament will only be on Court Philippe Chatrier.

It’s impossible to know which judge a particular participant will be placed in advance as this is established only the evening before. The overall seating potential on the Philippe-Chatrier Court is 14,840.

Past French Open Men’s Champions

Past French Open Women’s Champions