2019 Roland Garros

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The 2019 Roland Garros (also known as the 2019 French Open) is a Grand Slam tennis tournament that is going to be played from the 26th of May 2019 to the 9th of June 2019 [1] in Paris, France, specifically at the Stade Roland Garros tennis venue [2]. There will be events for Singles, Doubles as well as mixed Doubles play. There will also be Singles and Doubles events for Junior players and wheelchair players. The defending champions in the Singles are Rafael Nadal (Men’s Singles) who has won the tournament 11 times [3] and Simona Halep (Women’s Singles) [4].

The tournament will be the 123rd edition of the Roland Garros and only clay court Grand Slam event of 2019, it will also be the 52nd edition of the event in the Open Era. It is going to be played on clay courts, making it the only Grand Slam event in 2019 to be played on clay.

Tournament[edit]

The 2019 Roland Garros is going to be the 123rd edition of Roland Garros and it, like every edition before it from 1928, is going to be held as Stade Roland Garros. The tournament will also be the final event of the 2019 spring clay court season, which will start 7 weeks prior to the event, after the 2019 Roland, the tour will prepare to go to the grass courts to prepare for Wimbledon. The shot clocks that has been introduced last year that allows 25 seconds between services will continued to be used. In addition, the juniors’ events will not feature service lets [5].

The International Tennis Federation will run 2019 Roland Garros as a part of the 2019 ATP WTA World Tours calendars under the Grand Slam category. Men’s and Women’s Singles and Doubles as well as Mixed Doubles events are all going to be played [6].

The Grade A category of the tournament will consist of Singles and Doubles events for players who are under the age of 18, known as Boy’s and Girls’ Doubles or Singles [7]. There will also be events for wheelchair players as a part of the Grand Slam category.[8]

The 2019 Roland Garros is going to be played on 22 courts, all of them clay. There will be 3 main show courts, Court Bullring (Court 1), Court Suzanne Lenglen and the Centre Court, Court Philippe Chatrier.[6][2]

Courts[edit]

Court Philippe Chatrier[edit]

The Philippe Chatrier has been the main court of the Roland Garros events since 1928, since it was built. It has undergone various name change, with the last time changing from "Court Central" to what it is know to day as the "Philippe Chatrier" after Philippe Chatrier, who was the long time president of the Fédération Française de Tennis,(FFT) and who has helped restore tennis as a Summer Olympics sport in 1988[9]. It has seats for up to 14,840 spectators, making it the largest court of the Stade Roland Garros tennis venue as of this moment, though this number is a reduction from 15,166 in 2010 in order to accommodate new press boxes.[10] This stadium is also where the Men Seniors' Finals are played, and it's also where the prizes are given to the champion, also called La Coupe des Mousquetaires..

The court's surface is clay, setting it apart from other Grand Slam events (Wimbledon is played on grass, Australian and US Open is played on slow and fast hard courts respectively).

Court Philippe Chatrier is going through a makeover until the 2020 edition of the event. It was demolished after the 2018 Roland Garros event and will be back in line with center courts of the other three Grandslam events. It is estimated that the stadium will be 80% rebuilt, sporting new wooden seats and a new retractable roof, enabling play to continue when it rains, which in the past would result in a delay[11].

Court Suzanne Lenglen[edit]

Court Suzanne Lenglen is the second largest stadium in the Slade Roland Garros at the moment, with a capacity of up to 10,068 spectators[12]. It was named after Suzanne Lenglen, an incredibly successful tennis player. She is regarded as the first true tennis star in the women's game, having won 31 Grand Slam titles in total. In those 31 Grand Slam titles within the span of 13 years, from 1914 to 1926, 12 of the were Singles, with 6 of them being Roland Garros titles and the other 6 being Wimbledon titles. She is known as La Divine ("The Divine One") and "La Grand Dame" (The Great Lady).

The court was built in 1994 and was originally named "Court A", and is the place where the Women Singles' Final is to be played, and also the place to give prizes to the champion, known as the La Coupe Suzanne Lenglen, in honor of the stadium's namesake.

Despite being the secondary court, court Suzanne Lenglen has something that is the first of its kind, which is an underground irrigation system, designed to control the moisture of the surface clay, allowing the optimal playing conditions for players.[13]

In 1994, the walkway that connects the two main stadiums was named Allée Marcel Bernard, after the 40s-era Roland Garros champion who died in the same year.[13]

Changes to the stadium during the recent makeover will be "small, but impossible to miss"[14], according to Roland Garros officials. There will be golden new wooden seats made from blonde French Vosges timber to give the court a more traditional look.

Court 1[edit]

Court 1, also known as "Bullring" due to its circular shape, is the event's tertiary stadium, It has significantly less seats than other the larger 2 courts, with 3,800 seats for spectators. The court was designed by a former French Open Junior Champion, Jean Lovera, who has intentionally designed the court to be a contrast to the Philippe Chatrier, which is more adjacent, angular, another unique design was that the press boxes are in the first row t court level, behind the south baseline. In 1980, this court was the favorite among tennis fans due to its close proximity to the court itself, making the spectators much more involved into the action.

There has been a lot of upsets in this court, namely unseeded Gustavo Kuerten's victory over Thomas Muller, who was the fifth seed, on his was to 1997 Roland Garros title, his first of three, the stadium was also where third seed Gabriela Sabatini loss to Mary Joe Fernandez, after established a 6-1, 5-1 lead and dropping 5 matchpoints in the 1993 quarterfinals. Additionally, it was where the famous "dropped pants" match between Marat Safin and Felix Mantila took place.

The court, however, will likely to be replaced by a new stadium, called Simonne-Mathieu-Court. It's, along with the gardens around it', new purpose is to be a hospitality events venue starting from 2019. The stadium and the gardens around it has been serving since they was completed, in 1989, and will continue to serve with their new purpose.

Simonne-Mathieu-Court[edit]

The Simonne-Mathieu-Court will be the replacement for the Bullring, after the older stadium being restored along with the gardens around it to be used for hospitality events starting from 2019.

The court is named after a French women who won the Roland Garros titles 10 times, the Simonne-Mathieu-Court will have 5000 seats. It is a way for the officials to ease the congestion within the Slade Roland Garros[15].

Other courts[edit]

There will be other side courts alongside the main courts. The side courts are named from 2 to 18. They will have less seats than the main courts, with the largest court of them capable of having 2,200 spectators.

Points and prize money[edit]

Points distribution[edit]

The point offer for each event is distributed as below.

Senior points[edit]

Events W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round od 128 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Men’s Singles 2000 1200 720 360 180 90 45 10 25 16 8 0
Men’s Doubles 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women’s Singles 1300 780 430 240 130 70 10 40 30 20 2
Women’s doubles 10 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Wheelchair points[edit]

Event W F SF/3rd QF/4th
Singles 800 500 375 100
Doubles 100 N/A
Quad Singles N/A
Quad doubles 100 N/A N/A

Junior points[edit]

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3
Boys’ singles 1000 600 370 200 100 45 30 20
Girls’ Singles
Boys’ Doubles 750 450 275 150 75 N/A
Girls’ doubles

Prize money[edit]

There yet has been confirmation about the prize money for the 2019 Roland Garros. Below is the distribution of the prize money in the 2018 event. The total prize money was €39,197,000. The Men and Women Singles champions received €2,200,000, €100,000 more than the prior edition, the 2017 Roland Garros.[16]

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles 2,200,000 1,120,000 560,000 380,000 222,000 130,000 79,000 40,000 21,000 11,000 6,000
Doubles* 560,000 280,000 139,000 76,000 41,000 22,000 11,000 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Mixed Doubles* 120,000 60,000 30,000 17,000 9,500 4,750 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Wheelchair Singles 35,000 17,500 8,500 4,500 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Wheelchair Doubles* 10,000 5,000 3,000 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

*per team

Defending champions[17][edit]

Seniors[edit]

Men’s Singles[edit]

Main article: 2018 French Open – Men’s Singles

The defending champion of the 2019 French Open is Rafael Nadal, after he successfully defended his title against Dominic Thiem. The Spaniard has won the tournament 11 times. Nadal won 3-0: 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. By defending his title in 2018, he became the only player in the Open Era to 11 Grand Slam Singles titles at 1 major.[3] The only other who has achieved a similar feat was Margaret Court, when she won the Australian Open for the 11th time in 1973.

Women’s Singles[edit]

Main article: 2018 French Open – Women’s Singles

The defending champion is Simona Halep, after she defeated Sloane Stephens to win her maiden Grand Slam title. The final score is 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. Halep became the second Romanian woman to win a Grand Slam title after the 1978 French Open Virginia Ruzici

Men’s Doubles[edit]

Main article: 2018 French Open – Men’s Doubles

Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won the title in 2018, defeating Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic in the final, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4). They were the third all-French team to reach the French Open final in six years.

Women’s Doubles[edit]

Main article: 2018 French Open – Women’s Doubles

Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova won the title in 2018, it was their first Grand Slam Doubles title, defeating Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya in the final, 6-2, 6-3

Mixed Doubles[edit]

Main article: 2018 French Open – Mixed Doubles

Latisha Chan and Ivan Dodig are the defending champions, having defeated Gabriela Dabrowski and Mate Pavic in the final. The score was 6-1, 6-7 (5-7), [10-8]. Gabriela Dabrowski was the 2017 Roland Garros Mixed Doubles champion alongside with Rohan Bopanna.

Juniors[edit]

Main article: 2018 French Open – Champions – Juniors

The Roland Garros Boys’ Singles defending champion is Tseng Chun-hsin, who beat Sebastian Baez in 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 in the finals.

The Roland Garros Girls’ Singles defending champion is Cori Gauff, who beat Caty McNally 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) in the finals.

The Roland Garros Boys’ Doubles defending champion are Ondrej Styler and Naoki Taijima, who beat Ray Ho and Tseng Chun-hsin 6-4, 6-4 in the finals.

The Roland Garros Girls’ Doubles defending champion are Caty Mcnally and Iga Swiatek, who beat Yuki Naito and Naho Sato 6-2, 7-5 in the finals.

Wheelchair events[edit]

Main article, 2018 French Open – Champions – Wheelchair events

Wheelchair Men’s Singles[edit]

Shingo Kunieda def. Gustavo Fernández, 7–6(7–5), 6–0

Wheelchair Women’s Singles[edit]

Yui Kamiji def. Diede de Groot, 2–6, 6–0, 6–2

Wheelchair Men's Doubles[edit]

Stéphane Houdet /Nicolas Peifer def. Frédéric Cattaneo / Stefan Olsson, 6–1, 7–6(7–5)

Wheelchair Women's Doubles[edit]

Diede de Groot / Aniek van Koot def. Marjolein Buis / Yui Kamiji, 6–1, 6–3

Reference[edit]

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  2. “The Courts”: http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/content/rg_spirit/the_courts.html
  3. “Rafael Nadal wins 11th French Open title with three-set victory over Thiem”: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jun/10/rafael-nadal-wins-eleventh-french-open-dominic-thiem
  4. “At last: Halep wins Roland-Garros”: https://www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/article/roland-garros-2018-simona-halep-beats-sloane-stephens-to-win-womens-singles-title
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  7. “Roland Garros Junior French Defchampionships”: http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100033603
  8. “Circuit Info”: https://www.itftennis.com/wheelchair/tournaments/circuit-info.aspx
  9. “Roland Garros announces prize money increase”: http://www.wtatennis.com/news/roland-garros-announces-prize-money-increase-new-rules
  10. “Roland Garros 2018 champions”: https://www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/photo-gallery/gallery-roland-garros-2018-champions?photo=11
  11. Margaret Court”: https://www.tennis.com.au/player-profiles/margaret-smith-court
  12. "Roland Garros Junior French Championships" :https://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100041253
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