French Open, often known as Roland Garros is one of the four most challenging and largest tennis championship tournament based in France. It is an annual tennis competition which was established in 1891 which means it is an oldest tennis competition. It is the clay court tennis championship which is 2nd in position out of four Grand Slam tournaments.
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The tournament is currently organised by International Tennis Federation (ITF) and this tournament is also the part of WTA Tour.
# Short Details: Since the foundation, French Open has passed long way. Almost 115th season of this tournament has gone and now the time has come for next edition which will be placed in next 2017. Though, the schedule or date are not confirmed yet but as usual it used to staged with two weeks duration between last week of May to first week of June in every year. So, hopefully next season will be placed in next May, 2017. It will be hosted at Stade Roland Garros which is situated in Paris, France. This arena was founded in 1928 with 14,840 seats capacity. Let’s have a look below where the short information of upcoming tennis competition is listed below.
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- Competition Name – French Open/ Roland Garros
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- Edition – 116th
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- Sport – Tennis
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- Founded – 1891
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- Category – Grand Slam
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- Location – Paris, France
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- Ground – Stade Roland Garros
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- Surface – Clay
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- Founded – 1928
- Capacity – 14,840
The upcoming French Open 2017 consists of sixteen different events like men’s and women’s singles and doubles, mixed doubles and so on. Here we present below where the complete events list is given.
# Events of Roland Garros 2017:
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- Men’s Singles
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- Women’s Singles
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- Men’s Doubles
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- Women’s Doubles
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- Mixed Doubles
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- Boys’ Singles
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- Girls’ Singles
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- Boys’ Doubles
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- Girls’ Doubles
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- Wheelchair Men’s Singles
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- Wheelchair Women’s Singles
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- Wheelchair Men’s Doubles
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- Wheelchair Women’s Doubles
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- Women’s Legends Doubles
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- Legends Under 45 Doubles
- Legends Over 45 Doubles
According to the last year, Serbian Novak Djokovic was the crowned champion where he defeated English star Andy Murray in men’s single. On the other hand, in women’s single Serena Williams was lost by the Spanish beauty Garbine Muguruza.
Through French Open, athletes can get huge amount of money. According to the last year, winners of the both men’s and women’s single have got €2,000,000 where the every finalists received €1,000,000 each. Winners of the men’s and women’s double getting paid with €500,000 and the winner of mixed doubles have grabbed €116,000. Besides, winner of every events along with finalists, semi finalists, quarter finalists, every participants of round of 16 and round of 32 have received the prize money too. Generally, the prize money of upcoming season would possibly increase somewhat.
Though, it is currently one of four largest tennis championship so it naturally broadcasted worldwide through different kinds of satellite networks. In United Kingdom, ITV Sport holds the right to broadcast this tournament until 2018 as an agreement. Besides, BT Sports will also broadcast in there. NBC, ESPN, ESPN2 will show this tournament in United States as usual. One of them will telecast the highlights of the matches. CBS will also broadcast in USA. Alongside, Neo Sports have got the right to telecast this event in India and the subcontinent.
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