French Open

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tennis Roland Garros
Logo of the "Roland Garros" tournament
International Tennis Federation
venue Paris France
FranceFrance 
First run 1891
category Grand Slam
Tournament type Free place tournament
Game surface sand
draw Men: 128E / 128Q / 64D
Women: 128E / 96Q / 64D
Mixed: 32 pairings
Prize money € 42,700,000 
Center Court 15,059 spectators
Website Official website
As of March 25, 2019

The French Open (officially Tournoi de Roland Garros , "Roland Garros Tournament") is the second tennis tournament in the Grand Slam tournament and has been held every year since 1891 between mid-May and early June in the Stade Roland Garros in the 16th arrondissement held in Paris . The French Open are the only clay court tournament in the Grand Slam series and represent a special challenge for the players, as the game on red ash is much slower than, for example, on hard court surfaces . As a result, the matches last longer on average than games in other Grand Slam tournaments. The Center Court in Paris is named after Philippe Chatrier (1926-2000), the tournament after the aviation pioneer Roland Garros (1888-1918).

history

The first "Championnat de France international de Tennis" (the international tennis championships of France) took place in Paris in 1891 . The first winner in the men's singles was the Briton H. Briggs . The women were allowed to compete for the first time in 1897. Until 1925, the start of the tournament was reserved exclusively for French and a very limited number of selected foreign athletes. In these first decades, grass was played and the venue changed between the “ Racing Club de France ” and the “ Stade Français ”. In 1928 a new tennis stadium was built near Porte d'Auteuil in the course of an upcoming Davis Cup dispute . It was named after Roland Garros , a fighter pilot who was revered in France as the hero of the First World War . For the first time the surface was chosen as the surface that is still considered the defining trademark of the French Open, gives the tournament its specific charm and poses very special challenges for the player: terre battue - the slow "red ash" made of ground bricks that Forcing the player to patiently build the game and making network attacks more difficult. The Stade Roland Garros was opened on May 19, 1928 with a women's international match.

In the beginning, the tournament - like the Olympic Games - was reserved exclusively for amateurs. Since 1968, the beginning of the so-called “ Open Era ”, the history of the “Open Championships”, all players have been allowed to start. In 2000, Mary Pierce became the last French woman to win the French Open. Since 2006 the French Open has already started on Sunday. The number of games this Sunday has increased from 16 (2006) to 24 (2007) and now to 32 (2008).

In 2010 the French Open was broadcast in 3D for the first time and could also be seen in three dimensions in public places. The tournament was the first sporting event to be publicly viewed in 3D.

Due to the significantly lower capacity of the facility, however, a move for the French Open is being discussed. Compared to other Grand Slam tournaments, the Paris area is not even half the size and the audience capacity is significantly smaller. However, expansion plans have so far failed because of the residents and environmentalists.

The 2020 tournament on March 17th was postponed from May 24th to June 7th in the autumn of the year to September 20th to October 4th due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France . In April the tournament was postponed for another week. From September 27th to October 11th the game will be played in Paris. If necessary, the organizers would hold the French Open without a spectator. This could enable part of the business model, the service of television rights, according to Bernard Giudicelli, President of the French tennis association FFT. More than a third of the funding for the French Open comes from broadcasting rights. At the beginning of May, the organizers announced that they would be reimbursed for tickets that had already been purchased.

gallery

  • The Center Court Court Philippe Chatrier

  • Entry ticket 2003

  • Court A "Suzanne Lenglen"

Records

Record winner Rafael Nadal at the 2011 French Open

Men :

Women :

Youngest individual winners :

Oldest individual winners :

Winner from the German-speaking area

Five Germans won an individual final at the French Open: Cilly Aussem (1931), Gottfried von Cramm (1934 and 1936), Hilde Sperling (1935, 1936 and 1937), Henner Henkel (1937) and Steffi Graf (1987, 1988 , 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1999). In the men's doubles, Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel were able to achieve a victory together in 1937 and Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies in 2019 . In 2014, Anna-Lena Grönefeld won the mixed competition .

On the Swiss side, Roger Federer (2009) and Stan Wawrinka (2015) each won a men's final. Heinz Günthardt was victorious in men's doubles in 1981 and mixed in 1985. Martina Hingis won the women's doubles in 1998 and 2000, and the mixed competition in 2016. Lolette Payot won the mixed final in 1935.

From Austria, Thomas Muster was successful in men's singles in 1995.

All winners

Prize money

From 2010 to 2019, the prize money for the men's and women's singles doubled to € 2.3 million each, for the first round there was € 46,000 in 2019, slightly more than three times as much as in 2010.

year victory final Semifinals Quarter finals Round of 16 3rd round 2nd round 1 round
2010 € 1,120,000 0€ 560,000 € 280,000 € 140,000 0€ 70,000 0€ 42,000 0€ 25,000 0€ 15,000
2011 € 1,200,000 0€ 600,000 € 300,000 € 150,000 0€ 75,000 0€ 42,000 0€ 25,000 0€ 15,000
2012 € 1,250,000 0€ 625,000 € 310,000 € 155,000 0€ 80,000 0€ 47,000 0€ 28,000 0€ 18,000
2013 € 1,500,000 0€ 750,000 € 375,000 € 190,000 € 100,000 0€ 60,000 0€ 35,000 0€ 21,000
2014 € 1,650,000 0€ 825,000 € 412,500 € 220,000 € 125,000 0€ 72,000 0€ 42,000 0€ 24,000
2015 1,800,000 € 0€ 900,000 € 450,000 € 250,000 € 145,000 0€ 85,000 0€ 50,000 0€ 27,000
2016 € 2,000,000 € 1,000,000 € 500,000 € 294,000 € 173,000 € 102,000 0€ 60,000 0€ 30,000
2017 € 2,100,000 € 1,060,000 € 530,000 € 340,000 € 200,000 € 118,000 0€ 70,000 0€ 35,000
2018 € 2,200,000 € 1,120,000 € 560,500 € 380,000 € 222,000 € 130,000 0€ 79,000 0€ 40,000
2019 € 2,300,000 € 1,180,000 € 590,000 € 415,000 € 243,000 € 143,000 0€ 87,000 0€ 46,000

Audience numbers

In 2018, 480,500 spectators flocked to the facility, which was a new record. In 2017, 471,274 people attended the French Open.

Web links

Commons : French Open  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "French Open in 3D at Eurosport" (quotemeter.de on April 15, 2010)
  2. ↑ "French Open flirt with Mickey Mouse"
  3. ↑ Roland-Garros 2020: from 20th Sep to 4th Oct. In: rolandgarros.com. March 17, 2020, accessed on March 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Franziska Brülls: New date: French Open postponed by a week. In: tennismagazin.de . April 24, 2020, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Organizers: French Open conceivable without spectators. In: ran.de . SID , May 10, 2020, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Prize money French Open 2018: The second Grand Slam tournament of the year , tennis, on: vermoegenmagazin.de, from May 28, 2018, accessed on June 3, 2018
  7. ↑ French Open 2018: Fact check on Roland Garros ' classic , on: eurosport.de, from May 26, 2018, accessed on June 10, 2018

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 49.8 "  N , 2 ° 14 ′ 57.2"  E