ROLAND GARROS 2022. The French Open are back next May at Porte d’Auteuil in Paris. Who will succeed Novak Djokovic and Barbora Krejcikova, defending champions?
From Monday May 16 to Sunday June 5, Roland-Garros is back. After Jean Castex’s announcement on Thursday March 3 and the end of the vaccination pass from Monday March 14, Novak Djokovic, not vaccinated against Covid-19 should be able to defend his title obtained last year at the French Open. Since this Tuesday, March 8, the ticket office is open to the general public on the site Roland Garros.
So mark your calendars if you want to see Rafael Nadal try to win a fourteenth Porte d’Auteuil title and a 22nd Grand Slam title after the Australian Open. What about the new generation, led by Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas, finalist in 2021? In the women’s draw, will the Czech Barbora Krejčíková be able to do the double? Will world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty manage to win a second Parisian grand slam? Will we have the right to a return of the French in the round of 16? All these questions will find their answer next May on Parisian clay.
This Roland-Garros 2022 already has its official agenda: the qualifications will start on May 16, then the main draw matches will start on Sunday May 22. The date for the men’s final, which traditionally closes the fortnight, has been set for Sunday June 5, 2022..
The Roland Garros ticketing system (see the official website) is organized in several steps. Licensees benefit from a priority reservation period, which is generally scheduled for the month of February. For the general public, single tickets, the most popular, are then on sale in March at the same prices as FFT licensees. The order limits are four tickets per person for the main courts throughout the tournament (two tickets only for the final) and twelve per person for the side courts throughout the tournament. No limit is set for the qualifying tournament. Also note that in addition to the qualifying matches and the main tournament matches, other types of tickets are available for peripheral events: Children’s Day, the Legends Trophy… It is also possible to obtain tickets when arriving at the end of the day thanks to the Evening Visitors offer. Finally, the organizers offer Weekend Passes, Semi-final Passes or Final Passes.
At Roland Garros, the official program for each day, available on the official website, can sometimes be turned upside down. Indeed, if the schedule for the start of the day is quite clear, it is very difficult to count on the exact time of the end of the matches. The main constraints for the organizers: the weather and the time of sunset. In fact, only the Philippe-Chatrier court has a retractable roof and can accommodate night matches. The other courts do not have lighting. Note for information that at the end of May, the sun sets between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. but that for a tournament which would be played at the end of September, the evening would be much amputated (the sunset time would be closer to 7:45 p.m.). Finally, the match program can also be disrupted by bad weather, which regularly forces the organization to modify the schedule. You must then take your troubles patiently or come back the next day to follow the meeting that interests you… With a new ticket.
Roland Garros has been broadcast for many years by public service channels and Eurosport, but there have been changes since last year. Exit Eurosport: the broadcasting rights of the competition are now shared between France TV and Amazon Prime (subscribe to Amazon Prime Video), the video on demand service, which offers evening matches and those played on the Simonne-Mathieu court. The semi-finals and finals are co-broadcast.