French Open schedule 2016 Edition

The French Open which mentioned to Roland Garros is a major tennis affair in Paris. Every year it occurred over two weeks from May last week to June first week. The full form of the tournament is “French Internationals of Roland Garros” which referred to French Open or Roland Garros. It is the master clay pitch tennis championship event throughout the world and the second most annual Grand Slum out of four. The either three subsistence are the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. French Open Tennis is the only Grand Slam event which executed on clay courts and ended the clay court season. The affair is widely conceived to be the most anatomical demanding tennis event in the world.

The French Open Tennis schedule has been announced and the scheduled date confirmed from 22 May to 5 June. Here we providing the full schedule of the tournament.

French Open schedule for 2016 edition

Session	Date	Time	Courts
1st round	22 May, Sunday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen,
			Court No.1
1st round	23 May, Monday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen,
			Court No.1
1st round	24 May, Tuesday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
			Court No.1
2nd round	25 May, Wednesday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
			Court No.1
2nd round	26 May, Thursday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
			Court No.1
3rd round	27 May, Friday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
			Court No.1
3rd round	28 May, Saturday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
			Court No.1
4th Round	29 May, Sunday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
4th Round	30 May,  Monday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
Quarter Final Round	31 May, Tuesday	11.00 am	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
Quarter Final Round	01 June, Wednesday	12.00 pm	Philippe-Chatrier
			Suzanne-Lenglen
Women’s Semi-final	02 June, Thursday	12.00 pm	Philippe-Chatrier
Men’s Semi-final	03 June, Friday	12.00 pm	Philippe-Chatrier
Women’s Final	04 June, Saturday	12.00 pm	Philippe-Chatrier
Men’s Final	05 June, Sunday	12.00 pm	Philippe-Chatrier

Full name: French Internationals of Roland Garros

Short Profile of the tournament

Location: Paris, France

Founded: 1891

Surface: Clay

Defending Champion:

Men’s Single: Stan Wawrinka  (Switzerland)

Men’s double: Ivan Dodig (Croatia), Marcelo Melo  (Brazil)

Women’s Single: Serena Williams  (United State)

Women’s double: Lucie Safarova  (Czech Republic), Bethanie Mattek-Sands (United State)

Mixed double: Bethanie Mattek-Sands (United State), Mike Bryan (United State)

Prize Money: €28,028,600

History of the tournament: About 125 years ago, In 1891 a national tennis tournament was launched to be executed which consisted all the players from France Club. The Paris born Briton H. Briggs was the first winner of the tournament. That time the event was known as the “Championnat de France”, which means “French Championships”. The first women’s singles competition was held in 1897 where the mixed doubles contest was included in 1902. In 1907 the women’s doubles event was taken place in the competition.

Rafael Nadal, the spanish professional tennis player who got the Men’s French Open championship most time of 9 ( 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014). On the other side Chris Evert who comes from USA achieved the Women’s trophy maximum in 7 times ( 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986). Let’s see what happen in this time. Who will be the next winner. Learn more by keeping eyes in our site, we will provide you latest sports news.