A year after bidding farewell to tennis and his long professional career, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will return to Roland-Garros (May 28-June 11). The former French number one, semi-finalist twice in 2013 and 2015 on the Parisian clay, will join the panel of consultants of one of the two broadcasters of the event, Amazon Prime Video, announced Wednesday the streaming platform.
"The winner of the 2017 Davis Cup will take his first steps as a consultant from the Prime Video studio of Philippe-Chatrier, where a year earlier he had decided to retire after a career rich in 18 titles in singles and 4 in doubles," explains the press release. JWT, who has risen to fifth place in the ATP rankings in his career (February 27, 2012), will officiate alongside other former players such as Marion Bartoli, Arnaud Clément, Guy Forget, Tatiana Golovin, Pauline Parmentier and Fabrice Santoro.
A conversion as a tournament owner
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga played his final match in the first round of the 2022 edition of Roland-Garros. A tribute was paid to him by the French Tennis Federation (FFT) after the match lost to Norwegian Casper Ruud (6-7, 7-6, 6-2, 7-6). Since then, he has become the majority shareholder of several tournaments (Marseille, Lyon, Metz) and is involved in youth training.
Prime Video holds the exclusive rights to broadcast the night matches and matches played on Court Simonne-Matthieu for this 2023 edition of Roland-Garros. If the platform remains broadcaster, with France Télévisions, over the period 2024-2027, it has however lost the rights of the Simonne-Matthieu court over this period.
