2024 French Open


The 2024 French Open was a major tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 26 May to 9 June 2024, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair tournaments were also scheduled.
It was the 123rd edition of the French Open and the second major tournament of 2024. The main singles draws included 16 qualifiers for men and 16 for women out of 128 players respectively. The men's singles title was won by Carlos Alcaraz, who defeated Alexander Zverev in the final to lift his third major title. He also became the youngest male player to win a major title across three different surfaces. Iga Świątek successfully defended her women's singles title by defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final. It was her fifth major title and her third consecutive French Open trophy. By doing so, she recorded a 21-match winning streak at the French Open, which put her fourth in the match win streaks at the tournament. It would also be the final major for fourteen-time champion Rafael Nadal.

Tournament

The 2024 French Open was the 123rd edition of the French Open and was held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris.
The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation and was part of the 2024 ATP Tour and the 2024 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam tournament category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws.
There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls, which will be part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players under the Grand Slam category. The tournament was played on clay courts and took place over a series of 18 courts, including the three main showcourts, Court Philippe-Chatrier, Court Suzanne-Lenglen and Court Simonne-Mathieu.

Singles players

  • Men's singles
  • Women's singles

    Events

Men's singles

  • Carlos Alcaraz defeated Alexander Zverev 6–3, 2–6, 5–7, 6–1, 6–2
The men's singles event began on 26 May with the first of seven total rounds. Thirty-two players were seeded. Of those seeded players, six were defeated in the first round, notably No. 16 Nicolás Jarry and No. 17 Ugo Humbert. Karen Khachanov, Alexander Bublik and Sebastián Báez were the highest of the five seeded players to exit in the second round, and a further seven seeded players were defeated in the third round including No. 6 Andrey Rublev, No. 14 Tommy Paul and No. 15 Ben Shelton. With his win over Lorenzo Musetti in the third round, Novak Djokovic equaled Roger Federer's all-time record of 369 match wins at the majors. That match also marked the latest finish in tournament history, ending at 3:07 a.m. local time. Daniil Medvedev, Hubert Hurkacz and Taylor Fritz were the highest of the seven seeded players who were defeated in the Round of 16.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic withdrew from the quarterfinals due to a knee injury. As a result of this Casper Ruud received a walkover into the semifinals. His withdrawal guaranteed a first-time champion. It also marked the first French Open final without a member of the Big Three since 2004. Due to Djokovic's withdrawal, Jannik Sinner attained the ATP World No. 1 singles ranking at the end of the tournament, becoming the first Italian singles player, male or female, to claim the top spot. In the quarterfinals, Sinner defeated tenth seed Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets, third seed Carlos Alcaraz won over ninth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in a rematch of the previous year's quarterfinal, and fourth seed Alexander Zverev reached the semifinals with a win over 11th seed Alex de Minaur.
The first semifinal was played between second seed Sinner and third seed Alcaraz. The Italian got off to a strong start after he broke Alcaraz's serve in the first game of the match to win four consecutive games. Even though, Alcaraz countered this by breaking Sinner's serve, the second seed won the first set, 6–2. In the second set, the Italian once again broke Alcaraz's opening serve, but the Spaniard won four consecutive games before taking the second set 6–3 in favor. In the third set, Alcaraz got the lead after breaking Sinner's serve, but No. 2 broke his serve twice to take the third set 6–3. In the fourth set, both players continued to hold their serves until Alcaraz broke Sinner's serve in the last game of the set to win the set and to level the match at 2–2. The Spaniard won the first three games of the deciding set. Alcaraz won the match in five sets. He also became the youngest player to reach a Grand Slam singles final on 3 different surfaces. In the second semifinal, the fourth seed, Zverev played against two times French Open finalist, Casper Ruud. Ruud got an early start after Zverev's serve, winning three games in a row, before taking the first set, 6–2. The German broke the seventh seed's serve twice in the second set to win it in his favor, 6–2. At this point in the match, Ruud started showing signs of his fatigue due to a stomach illness. Zverev won the 3rd set by 6–4 after saving a break point in the 10th game. Zverev won the fourth set and the match by breaking Ruud's serve in the 1st and 7th game of the set.
In the final, Alcaraz had a strong start after he broke Zverev's serve in the first game of the match, however, Zverev fought back and broke Alcaraz's serve in the next game. Alcaraz went on to win the first set after he broke the fourth seed's serve in the 5th and 9th game. Zverev dominated in the second set, he broke Alcaraz's serve twice, in the 5th and 7th game of the set, winning four games consecutively. In the third set, coming from behind Zverev fought off a last game challenge from the Spaniard and won the set by 7–5 in his favor after saving a break point in the 12th game. Alcaraz bounced back in the 4th set, he won the first games of the set, breaking Zverev's serve twice, eventually winning the fourth set, 6–1 after saving three break points in the final game of the set. In the deciding set, Alcaraz broke the German player's serve twice to win the set, match and the tournament. It was his third major title. Alcaraz became the youngest player to win a major title on three different surfaces, having already won the 2022 US Open on hardcourts and 2023 Wimbledon Championships on grass.

Women's singles

  • Iga Świątek defeated Jasmine Paolini, 6–2, 6–1
The women's singles event began on 26 May with the first of seven total rounds. Thirty-two players were seeded. Seven seeded players lost in the first round, notably No. 6 Maria Sakkari, No. 13 Beatriz Haddad Maia, and No. 16 Ekaterina Alexandrova, and 10 more fell in the second round, among them No. 9 and former champion Jeļena Ostapenko, No. 10 Daria Kasatkina, and No. 11 Danielle Collins. In a second round match, No. 1 seeded Iga Świątek defeated former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka after saving a match point, leading some publications to call the match an "instant classic". Six seeded players lost in the third round, including No. 7 Zheng Qinwen. Świątek's defeat of Anastasia Potapova in the fourth round, which took just 40 minutes, was the shortest match played at Roland Garros since the 1988 final between Steffi Graf and Natasha Zvereva; the 10 points won by Potapova are the fewest on record at the French Open. No. 15 Elina Svitolina and No. 22 Emma Navarro were the only two seeded players to lose their matches in the fourth round.
Mirra Andreeva was the only unseeded player to reach the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, third seed Coco Gauff won against eight seed Ons Jabeur, Defending champion Iga Świątek defeated fifth seed Markéta Vondroušová in straight sets while only losing two games. No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka was upset by Andreeva, who won after losing the first set. No. 12 Jasmine Paolini defeated fourth seed Elena Rybakina in three sets. In the first semifinal, Świątek met Gauff. Świątek started off strong by breaking Gauff's serve in the first game of the match. First seed would break American's serve once more to win the first set, 6–2. In the fourth game of the second set, Gauff broke Świątek's serve for first time in the match, but the Polish player broke back in the next game, went on to win three consecutive games. Świątek won the match, 6–2, 6–4 to reach her reach third straight French Open final. She also became the third player since 2000 to make three consecutive finals at the event, after Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova. In the second semifinal match, Jasmine Paolini played against Mirra Andreeva. Paolini was first to break the serve when she won the second service game of Andreeva. Italian player won the first set, 6–3. No. 12 broke Andreeva's serve in the fifth game of the second set. Paolini won four consecutive games to defeat Andreeva, 6–4, 6–1 and reached her maiden major final. Paolini became the third Italian woman to reach the French Open final, after Francesca Schiavone and Sara Errani.
In the final match, Jasmine Paolini got an early lead after she broke Swiątek's serve in the third game of the first set to lead the set by 2–1. Świątek bounced back in the game by breaking Italian serve. Światek won four consecutive games and broke Paolini's serve thrice back to back to win the first set by 6–2 in her favor. Światek carried her strong moment into the second set as she broke No. 11's serve twice in a row and won the first five games of the set. Italian was finally able to hold her serve in the penultimate game of the match. The defending champion won the set 6–1 to win her third consecutive and fourth overall French Open title. Świątek only dropped one set en route to the title and became the third woman in the Open Era to win three consecutive French Open titles, after Monica Seles in 1992 and Justine Henin in 2007. Additionally, Świątek became only the second woman to win the Madrid Open, the Italian Open and the French Open in the same season, after Serena Williams in 2013. She became only the third player in the Open Era to win all of their first five Major finals, after Seles and Roger Federer.