Roland Garros, who is among the four most important tournaments of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the United States and the four most important tennis season, will be organized for the 124th time on May 25-June 8th this year.
The second Grand Slam Tournament of the season, which was held for the first time in 1891, will begin in Paris, the capital of Paris, the main table matches of France Açık.
Swıatek is in a row 4th in pursuit of victory
Women’s world ranking 5th step Iga Swiatek, France Open in France, 4 consecutive 5th championship will fight for the championship.
Swiatek, who received the nickname “Queen of the Land” thanks to his success in the soil court this year, had previously had the Open Championship in France in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
The first Grand Slam Tournament of the season is the only women who played the final in the Australian Open Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, the world’s number 1, is one of the favorites of France.
Sabalenka, who has 3 Grand Slam championships in Australia Open and one in the US Open, will be the first in French Open and the 4th Grand Grand Tournament Victory in his career.
In addition to Swiatek and Sabalenka, 2022 finalist US Coco Gauff (2), the finalist of last year, the Italian Jasmine Paolini (4), this year’s Australian Open Champion Madison Keys (7) and 2024 US open finalist Jessica Pegula (3) stands out for the championship.
He wants to protect the Alcaraz title
Carlos Alcaraz, the world number of last year’s champion of last year, will fight for the 5th Grand Slam victory in the French Open, Carlos Alcaraz.
The world’s number 1 Italian Jannik Sinner, which has 3 Grand Slam championships in Australia Open and one in the US Open, will target its first victory in France Open.
Serbian Novak Djokovic (6), who is the Grand Slam champion 24 times in his career, is one of the favorites of the tournament despite his advancing age.
Last year’s finalist German Alexander Zverev (3), US Taylor Fritz (4) and Norway Casper Ruud (7) come to the fore.
Total prize increased by 5.3 percent
The total money prize to be distributed in the 2025 French Open increased by 5.3 percent compared to last year and rose to 56.3 million euros (approximately 2.5 billion pounds).
Last year, the only women and single men champions given 2.4 million euros will receive 2.55 million euros in 2025 (about 111 million pounds).
National tennis player Zeynep Sönmez in the main table
Women’s world ranking 76th in the national racket Zeynep Sönmez, the second time in a row will take place in France Open.
Zeynep Sönmez will pass through three elimination rounds last year and participate directly in the main table this time.
National tennis player, last year in the first round of US Emma Navarro’ya defeated 2-0 was eliminated.
Zeynep, who joined the first Grand Slam Tournament of the season from the main picture of the Australian Open, had a towel in the first round of Australian Talia Gibson 2-1.
History of the tournament
For the first time in 1891 under the name of the “French Championship” tournament, only national -scale male tennis players were accepted. In 1897, the French Championship, where women started to compete, added mixed couples in 1902 and double women in 1907.
In 1968, the tournament, where international participants competed since 1925, was the first Grand Slam in 1968, which was described as the “Open Period”, where professional players and amateurs were allowed to encounter. Until the construction of the “Roland Garros” court in 1928, the championship, which gave its name to the tournament, was played in “Stade Français” and “Racing Club de France” fields.
The French Tennis Federation decided to build a new field for the rematch match in Paris a year later in French tennis players Jacques Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Rene Lacoste, who won the Davis Cup on the US territory in 1927.
For the new court, the “Porte D’uteuil” land of “Stade Français” was appropriate. The only condition for the court to be made was the name of Pilot Roland Garros, one of the former members of “Stade Français”. On September 23, 1913, Roland Garros had his name on the history of aviation as the first person to pass the Mediterranean by plane.
The capacity of Philippe Chatrier, which has been serving as the Central Cort of the tournament since its construction, was built in 2019 to 15 thousand 225 after the renovation launched in 2019. As a result of the study completed in 2020, the corta, the opens-up roof system was added.
DIFFERENT DIFFERENCE
France is the only Grand Slam tournament played on the land court.
The soil court leads to a decrease in the speed of the ball depending on the hard and grass floor and the rise more from the ground. With this feature, the court allows long rally and closes the weakness of tennis players who cannot use very strong service.
For this reason, tennis players such as John Mcenroe, Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Venus Williams, Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport, and Angelique Kerber could not win this tournament.
The “most” of France Açık
In the French Open, where the names of the most championships, Spanish Rafael Nadal in single men, and Chris Evert, the US in single women, are as follows:
Most winners in singles
Men:
Rafael Nadal (Spain) – 14 times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022)
Björn Borg (Sweden) – 6 (1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981)
Women:
Chris Evert (USA) – 7 (1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986)
Steffi Graf (Germany) – 6 (1987, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999)
The most winners in a row
Men:
Rafael Nadal (Spain) (2010-14) – 5 times
Björn Borg (Sweden) (1978-81), Rafael Nadal (Spain) (2005-08 and 2017-20)-4
Women:
*Helen Wills (USA) (1928-30), *Hilde sperling (Danish) (1935-37), Monica Seles (USA) (1990-92), Justine Hein (Belgium) (2005-07)-3
Winner
Men: Rafael Nadal (Spain) – 39 wins (2010-2015)
Women: Chris Evert (USA) – 29 wins (1974-1981)
The winners of the last 10 years
Men:
2015 – Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland)
2016 – Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
2017 – Rafael Nadal (Spain)
2018 – Rafael Nadal (Spain)
2019 – Rafael Nadal (Spain)
2020 – Rafael Nadal (Spain)
2021 – Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
2022 – Rafael Nadal (Spain)
2023 – Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
2024 – Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
Women:
2015 – Serena Williams (USA)
2016 – Garbine Muguruza (Spain)
2017 – Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)
2018 – Simona Aleppo (Romania)
2019 – Ashleight Barty (Australia)
2020 – IgA Swiatek (Poland)
2021 – Barbora Krejcikova (Czech)
2022 – IgA Swiatek (Poland)
2023 – IgA Swiatek (Poland)
2024 – IGA Swiatek (Poland)
Youngest winner
Men: Michael Chang (USA) – 17 years, 3 months (1989)
Women: Monica Seles (USA) – 16 years, 6 months (1990)
Oldest winner
Men: Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – 36 years 20 days (2023), Rafael Nadal (Spain) – 36 years, 2 days (2022)
Women: *If you are not Kormoczy (Hungary) – 33 years, 9 months (1958)
Winner
Men: *Marcel Bernard (France) (1946), Mats Wilander (Sweden) (1982), Gustavo Kuerten (Brazil) (1997), Gaston Gaudio (Argentina) (2004)
Women: *Margaret Scriven (Great British) (1933), Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) (2017), Iga Swiatek (Poland) (2020), Barbora Krejcikova (Czech) (2021)
Note: * Open term (including the championships won in 1968 before professional tennis players meet amateur players).