On Wednesday evening, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran warned: "As soon as we put in place gauges and limitations, this necessarily has an impact on any type of major event."
According to our information, the number of spectators admitted daily to the Roland-Garros enclosure from Sunday will finally be reduced from 5,000 to 1,000.
With 600 spectators drawn daily, 350 guests from partners and 50 people in the presidential stand.
Roland-Garros and its rally in the middle of the red zone should therefore not be argued completely behind closed doors, but in very small groups… This Thursday morning, discussions are still underway between the FFT and the authorities.
The official decision will only be taken within 48 hours, in consultation with the Prefect of Paris and elected officials.
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At the start of July, the organizers hoped to welcome 20,000 spectators per day at the start of the fortnight and nearly 10,000 for the finals.
At the beginning of September, the daily gauge had finally been lowered to 11,500 spectators maximum.
The health situation has since deteriorated again in Ile de France.
Concretely, in this new organization, the Central could accommodate 5,000 people per day, the Suzanne-Lenglen court 5,000 also and the Simonne-Matthieu court 1,500 people.
From ancient history.
Guy Forget, the tournament director, hoped to benefit from an exemption to accommodate at least 5,000 people.
“In terms of sanitary conditions, we meet all the criteria, we have always spoken with the authorities.
Today, we are a little worried, ”he slipped Thursday to BFM TV.
A legitimate concern.
Of the fifteen days of competition, only 15,000 people will have to attend the tournament.
They were 520,000 in 2019.
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