May 24 – June 7, 2026 · Stade Roland-Garros, Paris
The 2026 French Open (Roland-Garros) runs Sunday, May 24 through Sunday, June 7, 2026 at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris. The women's final is Saturday, June 6 and the men's final is Sunday, June 7. Day sessions begin around 11:00 AM CEST; night sessions on Philippe-Chatrier start around 8:15 PM CEST.
A typical Roland-Garros day session starts at 11:00 AM Paris time (CEST, UTC+2). Night sessions on Philippe-Chatrier start at 8:15 PM CEST. Here is how those times convert for major fan markets — every conversion below accounts for Daylight Saving Time in effect during the tournament.
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Roland-Garros is held at Stade Roland-Garros, 2 Avenue Gordon Bennett, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The three main show courts are Philippe-Chatrier (15,225 seats, the only court with a retractable roof and night-session lights), Suzanne-Lenglen (10,068 seats, also roofed as of 2024), and Simonne-Mathieu (5,000 seats, surrounded by the glass walls of the Serres d'Auteuil botanical garden). It is the only Grand Slam played on crushed red-brick clay — a slower, higher-bouncing surface that rewards heavy topspin and movement.
Because Paris is 6 hours ahead of New York and 9.5 hours behind Mumbai, a Roland-Garros men's final played at 3:00 PM CEST lands at 9:00 AM EDT, 6:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM BST, 6:30 PM IST, 10:00 PM JST, and 11:00 PM AEST. Use the visual meeting planner to find a start time that works for a global watch party — drag the timeline until the final lands inside everyone's evening hours. If you're hosting with remote friends, the conference call planner shows the overlap window in green.
The French Open singles draw is 128 players per gender — 104 direct-acceptance entries, 16 qualifiers, and 8 wild cards. The tournament uses a standard single-elimination bracket: 64 first-round matches, 32 second-round, 16 third-round, 8 Round of 16, 4 quarter-finals, 2 semi-finals, and 1 final per gender. Men play best-of-five sets; women play best-of-three. The 10-point match tiebreak at 6-6 in the final set (adopted by all four Grand Slams in 2022) applies. Seedings are based on the ATP and WTA world rankings published the Monday before qualifying starts.
Main draw: Sunday, May 24, 2026. Qualifying begins the week prior on Monday, May 18.
Women's final: Saturday, June 6, 2026 at around 3:00 PM CEST. Men's final: Sunday, June 7, 2026 at around 3:00 PM CEST. Both finals are on Court Philippe-Chatrier.
Clay — specifically crushed red brick (terre battue) over a base of limestone. It's the slowest of the Grand Slam surfaces and the only clay major on the calendar.
Yes. Night sessions on Court Philippe-Chatrier begin at 8:15 PM CEST and feature a single marquee match. Night sessions were added in 2021 when the court's retractable roof and lighting were completed.
Paris uses Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) during the tournament. CEST runs from the last Sunday of March through the last Sunday of October, so every match falls inside summer time.