The ticket office for Roland Garros 2023, the second major tennis tournament of the year, opens to the general public this Wednesday, March 15. The news.

Roland Garros opens to the general public this Wednesday, March 15 with the ticket office accessible to all. From 10 a.m., visitors and spectators will be able to buy tickets on the official Roland Garros website. They will have to choose the remaining ones because the presidents of the tennis clubs and the licensees have already taken tickets for this edition of Roland Garros. The limit is set at a maximum of 8 tickets for the 3 main courts, up to a limit of 4 places per session, including a maximum of 4 tickets for the following 4 days (Saturday June 3, Sunday June 4, Friday June 9 and Sunday June 11) and 12 tickets maximum for the annexes the first week, within the limit of 4 per day.

Will 2023 still be the year of the king of clay, Rafael Nadal? The Spaniard is aiming for a fifteenth victory this season in Paris. A record. He already has it with fourteen Mousquetaires Cup. Abused, suffering from a foot injury, the Taurus of Manacor still survived in 2022. To retain his title, he will have to fight once again. His body, at 36, is much more fragile than a Carlos Alcaraz or a Novak Djokovic who may be the big favorite of the event. By winning his 22nd Grand Slam in Melbourne and reclaiming the top spot in the ATP rankings, the Serb has clearly sent a strong message to his opponents.

Among women, will Iga Swiatek follow the path of her idol Rafael Nadal by becoming an undisputed queen on French clay? The defending champion is comfortably installed in first place in the world. She has crushed most of her opponents since the start of the season. The women’s circuit remains very open unlike the men’s. There will be a multitude of Grand Slam winners in the table (Muguruza, Krejcikova, Raducanu, Rybakina…)

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 sunset time. In fact, only the Philippe-Chatrier court has a retractable roof and can host matches at night. Other courts do not have lighting.

Roland-Garros 2023 begins with the main draw matches on Sunday May 28, 2023. The date for the men’s final, which traditionally closes the fortnight, is set for Sunday June 11, 2023.

The Roland Garros ticketing system (see the official site) is the same as previous editions. The objective of the organizers is to fill the courts “to full capacity”. For this, access to the stands has been reworked with the sale of 1,500 “annex-up” tickets which will allow ticket holders to attend matches on the annex courts but also to fill the boxes of the central court Philippe Chatrier , in case of low attendance. Often empty, the presidential stand will experience change in this 2022 edition. The organizers will give club volunteers the opportunity to attend matches from this stand, by inviting them regularly.

The global allocation for Roland-Garros is known. In 2022, this will amount to 43.6 million euros, or 7% more than in 2019. 2.2 million euros are promised to the winners of the singles tables. The organizers had promised to make an effort in the allocations for the qualified and eliminated from the first round. Something done for players who have not passed the qualifications with a 66% increase in the allocation allocated to the qualifications compared to 2019 and 30% compared to 2021.

In a press release, the French Tennis Federation indicates that “the increase in the allocation for the 1st round of the singles draw and qualifications makes it possible to support the populations of players who have suffered the most from the health crisis in recent years. .”

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 court – Matthew. The semi-finals and finals are co-broadcast.

Here is the list of winners of the French Open at Roland-Garros since the Open era