While Roland Garros officially begins on Sunday, the qualifications for the main draw of the French Open will liven up all week.
At Roland Garros, the official program for each day, available on the official website, can sometimes be turned upside down. Indeed, if the schedule for the start of the day is quite clear, it is very difficult to count on the exact time of the end of the matches. The main constraints for the organizers: the weather and the sunset time. In fact, only the Philippe-Chatrier court has a retractable roof and can host matches at night. Other courts do not have lighting.
Roland-Garros 2023 begins with the main draw matches on Sunday May 28, 2023. The date for the men's final, which traditionally closes the fortnight, is set for Sunday June 11, 2023.
The Roland Garros ticketing system (see the official site) is the same as previous editions. The objective of the organizers is to fill the courts "to full capacity". For this, access to the stands has been reworked with the sale of 1,500 "annex-up" tickets which will allow ticket holders to attend matches on the annex courts but also to fill the boxes of the central court Philippe Chatrier , in case of low attendance. Often empty, the presidential stand will experience change in this 2022 edition. The organizers will give club volunteers the opportunity to attend matches from this stand, by inviting them regularly.
Roland Garros has been open to the general public since Wednesday March 15 with the ticket office accessible to all. Visitors and spectators can now buy tickets on the official Roland Garros website. They will have to choose the remaining ones because the presidents of the tennis clubs and the licensees have already taken tickets for this edition of Roland Garros. The limit is set at a maximum of 8 tickets for the 3 main courts, up to a limit of 4 places per session, including a maximum of 4 tickets for the following 4 days (Saturday June 3, Sunday June 4, Friday June 9 and Sunday June 11) and 12 tickets maximum for the annexes the first week, within the limit of 4 per day.
The overall prize pool for Roland-Garros 2023 is not known. That of 2022 was 43.6 million euros, or 7% more than in 2019. 2.2 million euros are promised to the winners of the singles tables. The organizers had promised to make an effort in the allocations for the qualified and eliminated from the first round. Something done for players who have not passed the qualifications with a 66% increase in the allocation allocated to the qualifications compared to 2019 and 30% compared to 2021.
In a press release, the French Tennis Federation indicated that "the increase in the allocation for the 1st round of the singles table and for qualifications makes it possible to support the populations of players who have suffered the most from the health crisis in recent years. years."
Broadcasters of Roland Garros in 2022, France TV and Amazon Prime (subscribe to Amazon Prime Video) have renewed their contract until 2027. The French Tennis Federation has extended this collaboration in March 2023. France Télévisions will broadcast all the matches of the day while Amazon Prime will broadcast all 11 night sessions from the first Sunday to the last Wednesday of the tournament. It is also this channel that will offer its subscribers the poster of the day. The two media have reached an agreement. They will co-broadcast the semi-finals of the women's and men's singles, women's and men's doubles and the mixed doubles final.
Here is the list of winners of the French Open at Roland-Garros since the Open era
