PARIS, December 7, 2019 (FFT Press Release) After establishing a merit-based system for allocating wildcards for the main draw and qualifying rounds at Roland Garros, the French Tennis Federation has decided to apply the same system for French players in […]
FFT Press Release, November 13, 2019 The French Tennis Federation and Wilson Sporting Goods are delighted to announce they have entered into a new five-year partnership for Roland-Garros and the FFT. The partnership will be based on working together to […]
PARIS, June 11, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) French Tennis Federation president Bernard Giudicelli and Roland Garros tournament director Guy Forget held a joint press conference on Sunday to express their overall satisfaction regarding the 2019 French Open championships. They disclosed […]
PARIS, June 10, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Twelve finals, twelve titles, across two different decades. Such has been the tale of Rafael Nadal, winning the French Open a dozen times. He has cut across generations of rivals and has had […]
PARIS, June 9, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Ashleigh Barty went from being a tennis prodigy who briefly traded her racquet for a cricket bat to becoming a skilled tennis professional with a solid all-court game. Only 23 years-old, the native […]
PARIS, June 9, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Spanish World No. 2 Rafael Nadal made it an even dozen of titles in Paris as he defeated Austria’s Dominic Thiem 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 in a riveting three-hour one-minute final on Sunday. […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies clinched the doubles trophies at Roland Garros. In their first ever appearance in Paris, the German duo defeated the all-French combination of Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin 6-2, 7-6(3) in Saturday’s […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) The Paris skies above Roland Garros were ominous, mostly cloudy and grey for Championship Saturday. Less than an hour before the scheduled 3 p.m. start of the French Open women’s singles final, they […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) It took four hours and 13 minutes of play interspersed with several rain delays and an entire day’s washout. But Austrian fourth seed Dominic Thiem finally got the job done at Roland Garros, […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Girls’ No. 1 seed Leylah Annie Fernandez from Canada beat eighth seed Emma Navarro of the United States, 6-3, 6-2, in one hour and 25 minutes to become the first Canadian to win […]
