The 2024 French Open runs from May 26 to June 9.

The second major of the tennis season takes centre stage at Roland Garros, with 128 players in both draws battling it out to become the King and Queen of Clay.

Novak Djokovic is the reigning men’s champion, and the Serb will look to claim that record-breaking 25th major title.

Although, he faces stiff competition from the likes of Carlos Alcaraz, Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas, while 14-time winner Rafael Nadal is set for his swansong in Paris.

Meanwhile, Iga Swiatek is the player to beat in the women’s draw, with the Pole seeking her fourth French Open title in five years.

Standing in her way will be the likes of Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff.

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French Open 2024 dates and start times

Day	Date	Session	Start Time (BST)	Round
Sun	May 26	Day	10am	1st Round
Sun	May 26	Day	7.15pm	1st Round
Mon	May 27	Day	10am	1st Round
Mon	May 27	Evening	7.15pm	1st Round
Tue	May 28	Day	10am	1st Round
Tue	May 28	Evening	7.15pm	1st Round
Wed	May 29	Day	10am	2nd Round
Wed	May 29	Evening	7.15pm	2nd Round
Thu	May 30	Day	10am	2nd Round
Thu	May 30	Evening	7.15pm	2nd Round
Fri	May 31	Day	10am	3rd Round
Fri	May 31	Evening	7.15pm	3rd Round
Sat	June 1	Day	10am	3rd Round
Sat	June 1	Evening	7.15pm	3rd Round
Sun	June 2	Day	10am	4th Round
Sun	June 2	Evening	7.15pm	4th Round
Mon	June 3	Day	10am	4th Round
Mon	June 3	Evening	7.15pm	4th Round
Tue	June 4	Day	11am	Quarter-Finals
Tue	June 4	Evening	7.15pm	Quarter-Finals
Wed	June 5	Day	11am	Quarter-Finals
Wed	June 5	Evening	7.15pm	Quarter-Finals
Thu	June 6	Day	2pm	Semi-Finals
Fri	June 7	Day	1.30pm	Semi-Finals
Sat	June 8	Day	2pm	Women’s Singles Final, Men’s Doubles Final
Sun	June 9	Day	2pm	Men’s Singles Final

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Men’s, women’s and mixed doubles matches, as well as junior, legends and wheelchair doubles, are also available to watch and bet on live.

When is the 2024 French Open?

The 2024 French Open takes place from Sunday, May 26 to Sunday, June 9.

About The French Open

The second Grand Slam of the year is one of the most gruelling and demanding of the tennis season – if not the most demanding for the men, who must compete in best-of-five set matches for a fortnight on the most endurance-requiring surface in the game.

The French Open – otherwise known as Roland Garros, named after the Stade Roland Garros, where the tournament has been held since 1928 – has a long and complicated history. This has seen the tournament change locations and identities multiple times since its founding in 1891. Before 1925, the tournament was open to members of French tennis clubs only, and named the Championnat de France. Originating as a men’s event alone, a women’s tournament was added for the first time in 1897 – with doubles tournaments beginning to be added in 1902.

As the Championnat de France, the event changed both location and surface several times over. Initially, it was contested in Puteaux, and played on sand laid out on rubble. In moving on the the Racing Club of France, Paris, it changed surfaces to clay, and remained as such throughout periods of time spent in Bordeaux and Auteuil (Paris).

After a couple more venue changes, the tournament finally came to rest at the Roland Garros stadium in 1928 – the year it officially became a Grand Slam tournament.

The tournament’s history can be divided up into three stages: Before 1925 (the French club members only event), 1925-1967, and the Open Era – which is 1968 and beyond. It was only at the beginning of the Open Era that the tournament dropped its title of the ‘French Championships’ and adopted the major title of the French Open.

In the 1925-1967 era, France’s own Henry Cochet won the most editions of the French Open, achieving four (1926, 1928, 1930, 1932). Bjorn Borg of the Open Era bested this record with six titles (1974-75, 1978-81), a tally which nobody expected would be broken. Nevertheless, Rafael Nadal – still an active player – has gone above and beyond with his current all-time record of 12 Roland Garros trophies (2005-08, 2010-14, 2017-19). The Spaniard also holds the record for most consecutive titles won with his five from 2010 to 2014. This also translates into an all-time record, as Frank Parker, Jaroslav Drobny, Tony Trabert and Nicola Pietrangeli of the pre-Open Era only scored two consecutive victories each.

Over with the women, the legendary Suzanne Lenglen won the most titles before the Open Era, triumphing six times (1920-23, 1925-26.) Chris Evert’s seven title victories hold the record from 1968 onwards (1974-75, 1979-80, 1983, 1985-86.) Lenglen also holds the pre-Open Era record for most consecutive titles – four – and shares that status with fellow Frenchwoman Jeanne Matthey (1909-12.) In the Open Era, Monica Seles (1990-92) and Justine Henin (2005-07) share the status.

In recent years, the reign of Rafael Nadal, which saw him win nine of ten years between 2005 and 2014 (the exception being 2009 when he suffered a shock defeat to Robin Soderling, creating an opening for Roger Federer to finally complete his career Grand Slam), was suspended by titles for Stan Wawrinka in 2015 and Novak Djokovic in 2016 before Nadal returned in triumph in 2017, capturing ‘La Decima’ – a tenth title – without dropping a set despite facing Wawrinka in the final. Nadal successfully defended his title in 2018, prevailing for the 11th time with a straight sets win over first-time major finalist Dominic Thiem. Nadal and Thiem would clash for the second year in a row in the 2019 final, and while the Austrian was able to match it with the King of Clay for the first two sets, he couldn’t maintain the superhuman level required to beat Nadal at Roland Garros, eventually succumbing in four as the Spaniard collected his 12th French Open title.

Nadal increased his record haul to 13 as he won the 2020 French Open without dropping a set despite the tournament having been most unusually rescheduled to chilly, damp autumn conditions. He followed that up with a 14th in 2022, while taking his major tally to 22 titles, before Djokovic regained the crown the following year.

On the women’s side, recent years have seen Maria Sharapova (2012, 2014) and Serena Williams (2013, 2015) ending a string of one-time champions which included Ana Ivanovic, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Francesca Schiavone and Li Na, while Garbine Muguruza became the first Spanish woman since Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in 1998 to lift the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen when she claimed her maiden Grand Slam title at the 2016 French Open and Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko, just 19 years old, became the first unseeded player in history to win the crown when she captured the title in 2017, defeating Simona Halep in the final.

Halep would bounce back in the 2018 showpiece, finally capturing her maiden Grand Slam title with a come-from-behind win over Sloane Stephens. The Romanian couldn’t become the first woman since Justin Henin in 2007 to defend her Roland Garros title, losing in the quarter-finals of her title defence to Amanda Anisimova, with Australian star Ashleigh Barty going on to beat Anisimova in the semis and Marketa Vondrousova in the final to win her first major crown.

Iga Swiatek became the youngest French Open singles champion since Nadal in 2005 when she stormed through the draw without dropping a set in 2020. After Barbora Krejcikova won in 2021, the Pole made it three titles in four years following her triumphs in 2022 and 2023.

In 2020, the French Open showed that despite its reverence for tradition, it was able to adapt to unexpected circumstances. With tennis shut down in mid-March for what turned out to be a lengthy period, the French Open was one of the first tournaments to adapt, taking a risk by rescheduling itself to the autumn.

The tournament returns to its regular May-June slot in 2021, with crowds expected to be allowed once more at Roland Garros.

Why is the French Open so hard to win?

Played on the traditional clay known as terre battue, the French Open has a serious claim to being the biggest physical and mental challenge in tennis. Unlike the skiddy grass at Wimbledon or the hard courts in New York, the crushed brick at Roland Garros means a slower court surface and high-bouncing balls, with contemporary players routinely able to load the ball with topspin, and vicious kick. That, in turn, means longer rallies, with the best in the world able to run each other from side to side in grueling exchanges under the scorching Paris sun.

Physical fitness, power and stamina are vital qualities for success at Roland Garros, but so are variety, tactical awareness and acuity – a well-executed drop shot can have the devastating effect of a big serve on other surfaces.

Also, the clay in Paris does have a tendency to swirl around in the wind, making conditions even more difficult for the players.

It’s no surprise that the French Open has been sorting the best from the rest since it was first opened to all amateurs back in 1925. Some of the greatest in tennis history, including Pete Sampras, John McEnroe, Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker, have found the Coupe des Mousquetaires eluding them and, with it, their dream of winning all four majors. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic both endured years of frustration and multiple experiences of falling short at the final hurdle before completing the career Grand Slam in Paris.

On the other hand, there are those for whom Roland Garros has been the rock on which their greatness was built. Bjorn Borg won the title six times between 1974 and 1981, becoming the most successful player at the French Open in the Open Era – a record decimated when a certain Rafael Nadal came along, winning an incredible 14 titles between 2005 and 2022. Nadal’s extraordinary movement and defensive skills have rendered him almost unbeatable on the surface. While defence is a key requirement for success at Roland Garros, it is not the sole requirement. For all of Nadal’s defensive genius, the great Spaniard wields one of the most devastating forehands in the sport, and his use of the top-spin high-bouncing forehand to force his opponents back has been a constant feature of his clay-court dominance over the years.

Who are the greatest French Open players?

The great Rafael Nadal is unarguably the greatest human to ever step foot at Roland Garros. Nadal’s dominance of the tournament is staggering, with 14 titles and a 112-3 record in the French capital. A teenage Nadal claimed the title in his first attempt in 2005, beating Roger Federer in the semi-finals, and taking out Mariano Puerta in the title match. He would retain the Coupe des Mousquetaires in the next three seasons before Swede Robin Soderling ended his reign in 2009, causing one of the most seismic upsets in Grand Slam history with a four-set victory over the Spaniard in the fourth round.

Nadal came back with a vengeance, claiming an Open Era-record five straight titles between 2010 and 2014. He suffered his second defeat at the French Open to Novak Djokovic in the 2015 quarterfinals, and was forced out mid-tournament by injury in 2016, but increased his title haul to 14 with victories in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022.

The closest man to Nadal in the Open Era was Sweden’s Bjorn Borg, who wound up with six Roland Garros crowns, including four straight successes between 1978 and 1981. Borg’s big rival Ivan Lendl won three, as did Mats Wilander and the likeable Brazilian, Gustavo Kuerten.

Prior to the advent of the Open Era, Frenchman Max Decugis won his eight titles before the first World War, while Henri Cochet, one of the Mousquetaires, had five titles.

Chris Evert leads the women’s all-time field with seven titles, while Steffi Graf and Suzanne Lenglen, the great Frenchwoman who has one of the main show courts and the women’s singles’ trophy named after her, are joint-second with six crowns. Margaret Court is one of a couple of women with five titles, while modern day French Open great Justin Henin picked up four. Henin and Monica Seles are the only women to win three straight Roland Garros crowns in the Open Era. How about Serena Williams, you ask? Well, the great American has hoisted the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen on three occasions – 2002, 2013 and 2015.

French Open Records

Most titles (men):
Pre-1925 (French-only event) – Max Decugis, who won eight titles between 1903 and 1914
Amateur era (1925-67) – Henri Cochet, who won four titles between 1926 and 1932
Open Era (post-1967) – Rafael Nadal, with 13 titles between 2005 and 2020
All-time – Rafael Nadal (2005-9, 2010-14, 2017-20)

Most titles (women):
Pre-1967 – Suzanne Lenglen, who won six titles between 1920 and 1926
Open Era (post-1967) – Chris Evert, who won seven titles between 1974-1986
All-time – Chris Evert (1974-5, 1979-80, 1983, 1985-6)

Most consecutive singles titles (men)
Pre-1925 (French-only event) – Paul Ayme, who won four straight titles 1897-1900
Amateur era (1925-67) – Frank Parker (1948-49), Jaroslav Drobny (1951-2), Tony Trabert (1954-55), Nicola Pietrangeli (1959-60)
Open Era (post-1967) – Rafael Nadal, who won five straight titles 2010-2014
All-time – Rafael Nadal 2010-14

Most consecutive singles titles (women)
Pre-1967 – Suzanne Lenglen (four titles between 1920-1923) and Jeanne Mathey (1909-1912)
Open Era (post-1967) – Monica Seles (three titles between 1990-92) and Justine Henin (three titles 2005-7)

Most finals appearances (men)
Rafael Nadal made 14 finals between 2005-2022 (and has a 14-0 record)

Most finals appearances (women)
Chris Evert made nine finals between 1973-1986 (7-2 record)

Youngest winner (men) – Michael Chang, aged 17 years and 3 months in 1989

Youngest winner (women) – Monica Seles, aged 16 years and 6 months in 1990

Oldest winner (men) – Andre Vacherot, aged 40 years and 8 months in 1901

Oldest winner (women) – Zsusza Kormoczy, aged 33 years and 10 months in 1958

Unseeded winners (men)
Marcel Bernard (1946)
Mats Wilander (1982)
Gustavo Kuerten (1997)
Gaston Gaudio (2004)

Unseeded winners (women)
Margaret Scriven (1933)
Jelena Ostapenko (2017)
Iga Swiatek (2020)

Longest match (men)
By time – Fabrice Santoro d. Arnaud Clement (R1, 2004), 6-4, 6-3, 6-7(5), 3-6, 16-14 in 6 hours, 33 minutes
By games (with tie break scoring) – Paul-Henri Mathieu d. John Isner (R2, 2012), 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 18-16, 76 games total
In a singles final – Mats Wilander d. Guillermo Vilas (1982), 1-6, 7-6(6), 6-0, 6-4 in 4 hours, 42 minutes

Longest match (women)
By time – Virginie Buisson d. Noelle van Lottum (R1, 1995), 6-7(3), 7-5, 6-2 in 4 hours, 7 minutes
By games (with tie break scoring) – Linda Harvey-Wild d. Laura Gildemeister (R2, 1991), 7-6(7), 6-7(7), 11-9, 46 games total

Most aces in a single match (men)
Ivo Karlovic of Croatia served 55 aces in a win over Lleyton Hewitt at the 2009 French Open

Most aces in a single match (women)

Ekaterina Bychkova of Russia served 21 aces in a win over Lindsay Lee-Waters at the 2011 French Open

French Open Champions

Here is a complete list of all the men’s and women’s singles champions during the Open Era.

Active players are given in bold.

Former French Open champions (Open Era)

Year	Men’s Champion	Men’s Runner-up	Women’s Champion	Women’s Runner-up
1968	Ken Rosewall	Rod Laver	Nancy Richey	Ann Haydon Jones
1969	Rod Laver (2)	Ken Rosewall	Margaret Court (3)	Ann Haydon Jones
1970	Jan Kodes	Zeljko Franulovic	Margaret Court (4)	Helga Niessen
1971	Jan Kodes (2)	Ilie Nastase	Evonne Goolagong	Helen Gourlay
1972	Andres Gimeno	Patrick Proisy	Billie Jean King	Evonne Goolagong
1973	Ilie Nastase	Nikola Pilic	Margaret Court (5)	Chris Evert
1974	Bjorn Borg	Manuel Orantes	Chris Evert	Olga Mozorova
1975	Bjorn Borg (2)	Guillermo Vilas	Chris Evert (2)	Martina Navratilova
1976	Adriano Pannatta	Harold Solomon	Sue Barker	Renata Tomanova
1977	Guillermo Vilas	Brian Gottfried	Mima Jausovec	Florenta Mihai
1978	Bjorn Borg (3)	Guillermo Vilas	Virginia Ruzici	Mima Jausovec
1979	Bjorn Borg (4)	Victor Pecci	Chris Evert (3)	Wendy Turnbull
1980	Bjorn Borg (5)	Vitus Gerulaitis	Chris Evert (4)	Virginia Ruzici
1981	Bjorn Borg (6)	Ivan Lendl	Hana Mandlikova	Sylvia Hanika
1982	Mats Wilander	Guillermo Vilas	Martina Navratilova	Andrea Jaeger
1983	Yannick Noah	Mats Wilander	Chris Evert (5)	Mima Jausovec
1984	Ivan Lendl	John McEnroe	Martina Navratilova (2)	Chris Evert
1985	Mats Wilander	Ivan Lendl	Chris Evert (6)	Martina Navratilova
1986	Ivan Lendl (2)	Mikael Pernfors	Chris Evert (7)	Martina Navratilova
1987	Ivan Lendl (3)	Mats Wilander	Steffi Graf	Martina Navratilova
1988	Mats Wilander	Henri Laconte	Steffi Graf (2)	Natasha Zvereva
1989	Michael Chang	Stefan Edberg	Arantxa Sanchez Vicario	Steffi Graf
1990	Andres Gomez	Andre Agassi	Monica Seles	Steffi Graf
1991	Jim Courier	Andre Agassi	Monica Seles (2)	Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1992	Jim Courier (2)	Petr Korda	Monica Seles (3)	Steffi Graf
1993	Sergi Bruguera	Jim Courier	Steffi Graf (3)	Mary Joe Fernandez
1994	Sergi Bruguera (2)	Alberto Beratesegui	Arantxa Sanchez Vicario	Mary Pierce
1995	Thomas Muster	Michael Chang	Steffi Graf (4)	Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1996	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Michael Stich	Steffi Graf (5)	Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1997	Gustavo Kuerten	Sergi Bruguera	Iva Majoli	Martina Hingis
1998	Carlos Moya	Alex Corretja	Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (2)	Monica Seles
1999	Andre Agassi	Andrei Medvedev	Steffi Graf (6)	Martina Hingis
2000	Gustavo Kuerten (2)	Magnus Norman	Mary Pierce	Conchita Martinez
2001	Gustavo Kuerten (3)	Alex Corretja	Jennifer Capriati	Kim Clijsters
2002	Albert Costa	Juan Carlos Ferrero	Serena Williams	Venus Williams
2003	Juan Carlos Ferrero	Martin Verkerk	Justine Henin	Kim Clijsters
2004	Gaston Gaudio	Guillermo Coria	Anastasia Myskina	Elena Dementieva
2005	Rafael Nadal	Mariano Puerta	Justine Henin (2)	Mary Pierce
2006	Rafael Nadal (2)	Roger Federer	Justine Henin (3)	Svetlana Kuznetsova
2007	Rafael Nadal (3)	Roger Federer	Justine Henin (4)	Ana Ivanovic
2008	Rafael Nadal (4)	Roger Federer	Ana Ivanovic	Dinara Safina
2009	Roger Federer	Robin Soderling	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Dinara Safina
2010	Rafael Nadal (5)	Robin Soderling	Francesca Schiavone	Samantha Stosur
2011	Rafael Nadal (6)	Roger Federer	Li Na	Francesca Schiavone
2012	Rafael Nadal (7)	Novak Djokovic	Maria Sharapova	Sara Errani
2013	Rafael Nadal (8)	David Ferrer	Serena Williams (2)	Maria Sharapova
2014	Rafael Nadal (9)	Novak Djokovic	Maria Sharapova (2)	Simona Halep
2015	Stan Wawrinka	Novak Djokovic	Serena Williams (3)	Lucie Safarova
2016	Novak Djokovic	Andy Murray	Garbine Muguruza	Serena Williams
2017	Rafael Nadal (10)	Stan Wawrinka	Jelena Ostapenko	Simona Halep
2018	Rafael Nadal (11)	Dominic Thiem	Simona Halep	Sloane Stephens
2019	Rafael Nadal (12)	Dominic Thiem	Ashleigh Barty	Marketa Vondrousova
2020	Rafael Nadal (13)	Novak Djokovic	Iga Swiatek	Sofia Kenin
2021	Novak Djokovic (2)	Stefanos Tsitsipas	Barbora Krejcikova	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2022	Rafael Nadal (14)	Casper Ruud	Iga Swiatek	Coco Gauff
2023	Novak Djokovic (3)	Casper Ruud	Iga Swiatek	Karolina Muchova

French Open Player Performance

Top Men

Player	Titles	Finals	Main draw appearances	Win-loss record	2023 result
Rafael Nadal	14 (2005-8, 2010-14, 2017-20, 2022)	–	18	112-3	Did not play
Novak Djokovic	3 (2016, 2021, 2023)	4 (2012, 2014-15, 2020)	19	92-16	Champion (beat Casper Ruud)
Stan Wawrinka	1 (2015)	1 (2017)	18	45-17	R2 (lost to Thanasi Kokkinakis)
Roger Federer	1 (2009)	4 (2006-8, 2011)	19	73-17	Did not play
Dominic Thiem	–	2 (2018-19)	10	28-10	R1 (lost to Pedro Cachin)
Andy Murray	–	1 (2016)	11	39-11	Did not play

Top Women

Player	Titles	Finals	Main-draw appearances	Win-loss record	2023 result
Serena Williams	3 (2003, 2013, 2015)	1 (2016)	19	69-14	Did not play
Maria Sharapova	2 (2012, 2014)	1 (2013)	14	56-12	Did not play
Iga Swiatek	3 (2020, 2022-3)	–	5	28-2	Champion (beat Karolina Muchova)
Ashleigh Barty	1 (2019)	–	7	10-6	Did not play
Simona Halep	1 (2018)	2 (2014, 2017)	12	32-11	Did not play
Jelena Ostapenko	1 (2017)	–	8	11-7	R2 (lost to Peyton Stearns)
Garbine Muguruza	1 (2016)	–	10	29-9	Did not play
Svetlana Kuznetsova	1 (2009)	1 (2006)	19	52-18	Did not play
Sofia Kenin	–	1 (2020)	4	11-4	Did not play
Marketa Vondrousova	–	1 (2019)	6	11-6	R2 (lost to Daria Kasatkina)
Sloane Stephens	–	1 (2018)	12	35-12	R4 (lost to Aryna Sabalenka)

 

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