The 2024 edition of the Roland-Garros Grand Slam tournament begins this Monday, May 20 with the qualifications.
The 2024 edition of the Roland-Garros tournament promises to be more uncertain than ever. Between May 26 and June 9, the 128 participants in the men's and women's tables will try to win the Mousquetaires Cup and the Suzanne Lenglen Cup on the clay court of the Auteuil greenhouses . Qualifications begin at they will be available this Monday, May 20.
For the first time in many years, no favorite really emerges in the men's draw. a few days before the start of the tournament. The title holder and world number one Novak Djokovic is indeed having a difficult start to the season. For the second time in his career, he manages to win. Paris without having won only one tournament since January. Worse, he did not reach the final of any of the tournaments he played, with early eliminations early on. Indian Wells and à Rome. In the top five, there is also uncertainty for Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, both bothered by injuries for several weeks and uncertain for the French Open .
For what will undoubtedly be the last Roland-Garros of Rafael Nadal's career, the master of the place, fourteen times winner at Porte d'Auteuil, has not yet confirmed his decision. officially his participation. The Mallorcan has indeed been returning to the courts for a few weeks but is struggling to achieve success. regain rhythm and level of play.
The women's circuit, on the contrary, shows more continuity; and regularity over the last few weeks, with a stable and regular top four in the last four. tournaments. If Coco Gauff will have to resolve her service problems to return to the Roland-Garros final after that of 2022, Rybakina and Sabalenka seem able to win the tournament. But to do this it will be necessary to achieve the feat of beating world number one Iga Swiatek, three times winner of the tournament and double title holder. À only 22 years old, the Polish woman is on the basis of "Nadalesques" on clay, with 75 victories in 85 matches played in his career on the surface and already three Grand Slams and three WTA 1000s.
The organization of the tournament revealed wild cards for the main draw and for qualifying. Richard Gasquet and Alizé Cornet, who both announced At the end of their career, they will have the opportunity to say goodbye to the Parisian public. Among the women, the other guests in the main draw are Chlo é Paquet (140th), Fiona Ferro (146th), Elsa Jacquemot (153rd), Jessika Ponchet (150th) and Kristina Mladenovic (221st). Nine French women will be able to take part. try their luck in qualifying, à from Monday May 20. They are S&léna Janicijevic (217th), Manon Léonard (284th), Margaux Rouvroy (286th), Alice Tubello (371st), Jenny Lim ( 499th), Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah (550th), Astrid Lew Yan Foon (601st) as well as the two young Sarah Iliev (643rd, 17 years old) and Daphnée Mpetshi Perricard (1233rd, 15 nbsp;years).
Among the men, in addition to Richard Gasquet the wild cards for the main draw wereé distributed Alexandre Müller (109th), Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (123rd), Harold Mayot (130th), Terence Atmane (137th) and à Pierre-Hugues Herbert (140th). Discussed for a while, the possibility of to give a wild card à Dominic Thiem, double finalist of the tournament and who announced; his retirement à the end of the season, was not detention. The Austrian will therefore have to go through the qualifications, & unless the packages allow it to integrate directly into the main draw.
The overloaded calendar does not change the dates of Roland-Garros which will take place from May 20, 2024 with the start of qualifying to Sunday June 9, 2024, the day of the men's final.
If the ticketing system remains as in previous years, tickets will now be 100% digital. . There will be three phases. The first tickets will be sold to club presidents then to licensees of the French Federationç tennis court, before the opening of the ticket office to the general public on Wednesday March 13 & 10am. You need to pay at least 39 € for access to the side courts during the main tournament, and 50 € minimum to have a place in the stands of the Philippe Chatrier court. Resales of places are also planned at the end of the year. approaching the tournament and during the fortnight.
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The overall allocation for Roland-Garros 2024 has been increased. unveiled on April 25, 2024. In 2024, the overall allocation is up 7.8% compared to the previous year. last year, and rose to a new level. 53.478 million euros according to the press release of Roland-Garros.
At Roland Garros, the official program for each day, available on the official website, can sometimes be disrupted. Indeed, if the start time of the day is quite clear, it is very difficult to predict the exact time of the end of the matches. The main constraints for organizers: the weather and sunset time. Indeed, only the Philippe-Chatrier court has a retractable roof and can host night matches. The other courts do not have a retractable roof. lighting.
Broadcasters of Roland Garros in 2024, France TV and Amazon Prime (subscribe & Amazon Prime Video) have renewed their contract until 2027. France Tétévisions will broadcast in full daytime matches whileAmazon Prime will broadcast the 11 night sessions from the first Sunday to the last Wednesday of the tournament. Unlike &agrav; Last year, Amazon Prime will no longer have exclusive rights to Amazon Prime matches on Simonne Matthieu. The two media outlets managed to reach an agreement. They will co-broadcast the semi-finals of the ladies' and gentlemen's singles draws, the ladies' and gentlemen's doubles and the mixed doubles final.
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