ROLAND GARROS 2022. The 121st edition of the French Open tennis tournament will take place next May. Find out how to buy a ticket and the tournament schedule.
Who will succeed Novak Djokovic on the Roland-Garros list in 2022? Will Rafael Nadal be able to win a fourteenth Porte d’Auteuil title? 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 double the bet? All these questions will be answered next May on Parisian clay.
This Roland-Garros 2022 already has its official agenda: qualifying will begin on May 16, then the main draw matches will begin on Sunday, May 22. The date of 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 stages. Licensees benefit from a priority reservation period, which is generally scheduled for the month of February. For the general public, the most popular single seats 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 qualifying matches and 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 coming at the end of the day thanks to the Evening Visitors offer. Finally, the organizers offer Weekend Passes, Semi-Finals Passes or Finals Passes.
At Roland Garros, the official program for each day, available on the official website, can sometimes be turned upside down. Indeed, if the start of the day schedule is clear enough, it is very difficult to predict 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 smatching. The other courts do not have lighting. Please note 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 take place at the end of September, the evening would be much reduced (the sunset time would be closer to 7:45 p.m.). Finally, the match schedule can also be disrupted by bad weather, which regularly forces the organization to change the agenda. 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 had been broadcast for many years by public service channels and Eurosport, but there has been a change 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 Simonne-Mathieu court. The semi-finals and the finals are co-broadcast.