The second grand slam of the year, the 2025 French Open, begins on May 25 at Roland Garros in Paris. The men’s and women’s finals are held on June 7 and June 8, respectively, to wrap off the competition. The event will have a melancholy touch on the opening day as it honors the great Rafa Nadal. The French Open, the season’s second grand slam event, has arrived, with 128 players competing for the title in the men’s and women’s singles draws at Roland Garros.
This year’s French Open, which will celebrate retired legend Rafael Nadal on its opening day, will have several stories to tell.
The tennis world’s second Glam Slam is only one week away. The 2025 French Open will begin on Sunday at Roland-Garros in Paris, on red clay. This year’s competition will differ from previous years. Rafael Nadal isn’t competing for the first time in over two decades. With an incredible 14 French Open victories over his career, Rafael Nadal announced his retirement last year.
Everything you need to know is right here.
The tournament’s main draw starts on Sunday, May 25, while the qualification rounds start on Monday.
The date of the women’s final is set for Saturday, June 7. On Sunday, June 8, the men’s final is planned.
The women’s final is set for Saturday, June 7, and the men’s final is set for Sunday, June 8. The main tournament for men’s and women’s singles at the French Open begins on Monday, May 25.
Duration: May 25–June 8
Location: Roland Garros in Paris
On May 22, the French Open 2025 singles draw will be held.
We will then be aware of who is playing against whom in the opening round and how each player is anticipated to advance to the championship match.
A qualification tournament is held before the main draw for players who are not among the top 104 in the world. French Open qualifying begins on May 19.
Both the men’s and women’s main draws have 128 singles players. The top 104 players, out of a total of 120 entrants, are granted direct participation, with 16 qualifying positions available.
After that, there are eight French Open wildcard spots available. Who gets selected as a wildcard is up to the French Tennis Federation.
Lois Boisson, Elsa Jacquemot, Leolia Jeanjean, Chloe Paquet, Diane Parry, and Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah are the six French players who were given seats this year despite not automatically qualifying.
As per their reciprocal wildcard agreements with Tennis Australia and the US Tennis Association, the French Tennis Federation has additionally awarded spots to Destanee Aiava of Australia and Iva Jovic of the USA.
Men’s and women’s singles – first round
Tuesday, May 27
In the UK, TNT Sports and Discovery+ will both carry live coverage of the French Open. ESPN provides comprehensive coverage and live updates as well.
TNT, TBS, and truTV are the TNT Sports channels that will broadcast the French Open 2025. You may also watch every TV match on Max, along with hundreds more that aren’t available on the TNT channels. Except for Fubo, four of the five main live-TV streaming services offer TNT Sports channels. The least expensive way to watch the French Open, meanwhile, is with a month of Max.
To watch the French Open, tennis fans in the UK will need to have a subscription to either Eurosport or Discovery Plus.
Canadian tennis fans can watch the tournament on the streaming service TSN Plus. Current TSN cable members can watch for free by using the details provided by their TV provider. You also watch the RDS broadcast in French.
Channel 9 is a free-to-air channel, so Australian sports fans can watch the French Open without paying a cent. On top of that, its streaming service 9Now will allow you to watch the competition live online.
The pay TV sports network Stan Sport offers live, ad-free coverage of every match on every court, giving Australians another opportunity to follow the action at Roland-Garros. A Stan Sport subscription costs AU$15 a month, on top of the AU$12 Stan subscription.
With players Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu, and Katie Boulter all having some success on clay this season, British tennis will be more optimistic than normal going into the French Open.
Draper reached the Madrid Open final before losing to Norway’s Casper Ruud in three sets. He then advanced to the quarterfinals of the Italian Open in Rome, only to be eliminated by eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz.
The 23-year-old has yet to get beyond the first round, having lost his first two matches in the last two years. He is expected to perform better this time, however.
Raducanu overcame her aversion to clay in the women’s draw and achieved some success. At the Italian Open, she won three consecutive surface matches, which was her career high.
Although American Coco Gauff halted her in her tracks in Rome, she will be looking to improve at this week’s Strasbourg Open, which is the last competition before the French Open.
Katie Boulter only defeated world No. 64 Katerina Siniakova in one match between Madrid and Rome. Nonetheless, she participated in the WTA 125k Paris event last week and won, suggesting that she has finally improved her surface game.
Jacob Fearnley, Sonay Kartal, and Jodie Burrage are among the other British players competing in this week’s singles draws.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, the Italian Open finalists, are the overwhelming favorites to win the men’s draw. Alcaraz won the final in two sets and won the title in Rome. In addition, he is the reigning Roland Garros champion.
The men’s defending champion, Carlos Alcaraz, is going into this year’s competition. The young Spaniard is aiming for his second French Open title and fifth major championship. Jannick Sinner, Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz, Jack Draper, Novak Djokovic, and Casper Ruud are among the top players in the men’s draw. Sinner won the Australian Open to start the year after just rejoining the tour after a three-month suspension for doping.
But don’t disregard Sinner. The world No. 1 returned to tennis in March 2024 after receiving a three-month ban for two adverse drug tests.
The women’s draw has a slightly more open bracket.
Iga Swiatek is aiming to win her fifth title in the last six years and her fourth in a row at Roland Garros. But in recent weeks, she has fallen a step short of her imposing best, most notably losing to American Danielle Collins in the third round of the Italian Open.
Iga Swiatek is looking for her fifth French Open title in the last six and fourth in a row on the women’s side. Aryna Sabalenka, the current world number one, Jasmine Paolini, Mirra Andreeva, and four Americans in the top 10—Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys, and Emma Navarro—are in her manner.
There are several candidates to unseat Switaek. There is the American Coco Gauff, who in recent weeks advanced to the finals in Madrid and Rome before losing to Aryna Sabalenka and Jasmine Paolini, respectively.
Another is 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva, who advanced to the semifinals the previous year but is having a breakthrough season, having already won two WTA 1000 titles.
At the French Open, the winners of the men’s and women’s singles competitions will split the same prize money of £2.1 million from a total of £47 million.
The prize money drops with each subsequent round, with the runners-up taking home slightly over £1 million.
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