Where to follow Roland-Garros? On France Télévisions, the qualifications will start on May 22 on france.tv. Then, from May 28, the tournament will be followed live every day from 11 am on France 2, France 3 and France 4. With nearly 10 hours of live daily. Mary Pierce, Michaël Llodra, Justine Henin, Patrick Mouratoglou and Michaël Jeremiasz will accompany Laurent Luyat and Cédric Beaudou.
To discover
- Roland Garros Men's Singles
- Roland Garros Women's Singles
Prime Video, for its part, will follow the qualifying tournament from May 22. Then from May 28 to June 9, the channel will ensure the exclusive broadcast of all matches played on Court Simonne-Matthieu. And from May 29 to June 7, will offer the exclusive broadcast of the 10 evening sessions of Court Philippe-Chatrier (and from June 8 to 11, the live broadcast of the men's and women's semifinals and finals, singles and doubles). A major novelty of the edition, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga reinforces the team of experts already composed of Marion Bartoli, Arnaud Clément, Guy Forget, Tatiana Golovin, Pauline Parmentier and Fabrice Santoro. They will accompany Thibault Le Rol and Clémentine Sarlat, the main presenters.
Will the tournament be able to do without Nadal? Since his first appearance, in 2005, concluded by a first title, Rafael Nadal had not missed any edition of Roland-Garros. Exhausted, injured in his left foot, playing undercover, the Spaniard had won in 2022 a 14th title. That of courage, of experience. The rest was a new Way of the Cross due to injuries (abdominals, hip). Since Roland-Garros 2022, the Spaniard has played only 18 matches (8 losses). And only 4 in 2023 (3 losses). Insufficiently recovered and successively forfeited for the tournaments of Monte-Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome, Rafael Nadal finally declared forfeit. Leaving a huge void due to his unique history in the tournament (112 wins-3 losses; 14 titles) that makes him a player apart. "The players stay for a while and leave, the tournaments stay forever," said Rafael Nadal, in a mixture of lucidity and humility that resembles him, Rafael Nadal. His shadow will hover over the edition. The doors of the suite are wide open...
An Alcaraz-Djokovic showdown? The world numbers 1 and 2 have, since the beginning of the season, only crossed paths. Registered for the first time in the same table in Rome, the Spaniard was surprised in the 3rd round by the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (135th), then Novak Djokovic took his feet in the carpet against the Danish Holger Rune in the quarterfinals. Annoyances in the final stretch that crumple the ego, sharpen motivation. The Spaniard and the Serbian have only been pitted against each other once on the circuit. In 2022, Alcaraz won the semifinals in Madrid. A tantalizing prospect...
What are the French chances? They will rest largely on the shoulders of Caroline Garcia. But the French n°1 (4th player in the world) is no longer irresistible. The momentum of autumn 2022 has been broken, the less flamboyant results (with the exception of the finals played in Lyon and Monterrey) and doubts have caught up with her. Once again eagerly awaited, Caroline Garcia, 8th finalist of the Australian Open in January, can only rely on a quarter-final in Paris, in 2017. The alumni: Gaël Monfils (36; 389th in the world), Richard Gasquet (36; 44th) and Alizé Cornet (33; 64th) will be particularly followed and encouraged. Like the new wave Luca Van Assche (18; 85th) and Arthur Fils (18; 119th), Clara Burel (22; 108th) and Diane Parry (20; 109th). And sometimes, the magic of Roland-Garros lets surprises sneak in...
A new crown for Iga Swiatek? The Pole dominates the world circuit. Twice titled at Roland-Garros (2020 and 2022), she was, in the final stretch before the event, stopped by pain. She preferred to give up, hit in the right thigh, during the third set of her quarterfinal against the world No. 6 Elena Rybakina. Recently beaten by Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka in the final in Madrid and by Kazakhstan's Rybakina in the semifinals in Indian Wells, Iga Swiatek is on a tightrope. If her physique leaves her alone, she knows she will have to play fair. Because there is no shortage of outsiders in the women's draw.
A first major title for Tsitsipas? The Greek (finalist of Roland-Garros 2021 and the Australian Open 2023, each time dominated by Novak Djokovic) is, like the Russians Andrey Rublev and Daniil Medvedev, the Dane Holger Rune, the Norwegian Casper Ruud, the Italian Jannik Sinner, the American Taylor Fritz or the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime among those who can occupy a place of choice in the tournament. Surprised in the quarter-finals in Monte-Carlo (where he was the two-time defending champion) by Taylor Fritz, then unfortunate finalist in Barcelona, the Greek dreams of a great first.