| 2021 French Open | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 30 May – 13 June 2021 | |||
| Edition | 120 | |||
| Category | Grand Slam | |||
| Draw | 128S / 64D / 16X | |||
| Prize money | €34,367,215 | |||
| Surface | Clay | |||
| Location | Paris (XVIe), France | |||
| Venue | Roland Garros Stadium | |||
| Champions | ||||
| Men's singles | ||||
 Novak Djokovic | ||||
| Women's singles | ||||
 Barbora Krejčíková | ||||
| Men's doubles | ||||
 Pierre-Hugues Herbert /Nicolas Mahut | ||||
| Women's doubles | ||||
| Barbora Krejčíková /Kateřina Siniaková | ||||
| Mixed doubles | ||||
 Desirae Krawczyk / Joe Salisbury | ||||
| Wheelchair men's singles | ||||
| Alfie Hewett | ||||
| Wheelchair women's singles | ||||
 Diede de Groot | ||||
| Wheelchair quad singles | ||||
 Dylan Alcott | ||||
| Wheelchair men's doubles | ||||
| Alfie Hewett /Gordon Reid | ||||
| Wheelchair women's doubles | ||||
| Diede de Groot /Aniek van Koot | ||||
| Wheelchair quad doubles | ||||
| Andy Lapthorne /David Wagner | ||||
| Boys' singles | ||||
| Luca Van Assche | ||||
| Girls' singles | ||||
| Linda Nosková | ||||
| Boys' doubles | ||||
| Arthur Fils /Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard | ||||
| Girls' doubles | ||||
 Alex Eala / Oksana Selekhmeteva | ||||
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The2021 French Open was amajor leveltennis tournament played on outdoorclay courts. It was held at theStade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 30 May to 13 June 2021, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play.[1] The qualifiers took place from 24 May to 28 May. Junior and wheelchair tournaments also took place.Rafael Nadal was the four-time defending champion in men's singles, andIga Świątek was the defending champion in women's singles.
It was the 120th edition of theFrench Open and the second Grand Slam event of 2021. The main singles draws included 16 qualifiers for men and 16 for women out of 128 players in each draw, the last Grand Slam to expand the 128 women qualifiers instead of 96 in line with the other three majors.[2]
Novak Djokovic won the men's singles title overStefanos Tsitsipas in the final, marking his 19th Grand Slam singles title and making him the first male player to win the double career Grand Slam in the Open Era.[3]Barbora Krejčíková won the women's singles title overAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final, claiming her maiden Grand Slam singles title. This was the first time in French Open history that both singles victors were fromSlavic-speaking nations, namelySerbia and theCzech Republic.
This was the first edition of the event to have formal night sessions in the schedule, joining a practice already established at theAustralian Open andUS Open, with one match having a 21:00 local time start time each day.[4]
This was the final Grand Slam to use theadvantage set in the final set at singles matches, where it was replaced by final set tiebreaker in future tournaments.[5]
The mixed doubles event returned after a one-year absence, though the draw featured only 16 teams instead of the regular 32.[6]
The beginning of the tournament returned to its traditional late-May schedule after the previous edition being delayed to September 2020 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. On 8 April, the originally-announced dates were postponed by one week by theFrench Tennis Federation due to a third national lockdown and curfew in France enacted the week prior, with the first day of qualifiers pushed back to 24 May, and first day of the tournament proper pushed back to 30 May. The postponement was made in the hope that restrictions would be eased in time for the tournament, including potentially allowing spectators.[7]
At the start of the tournament, the main courts were capped at 1,000 spectators, and spectators wereprohibited after 21:00 nightly due to the nationwide curfew. This caused night session matches to be held behind closed doors. Beginning 9 June, the curfew was moved to 23:00, and centre court was permitted to expand to 5,000 spectators.[8] During the 11 June semi-final match between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, Prime MinisterJean Castex personally phoned the organizers after a 93-minute third-set tiebreak set to issue an exemption, allowing the match to be played to its conclusion with spectators.[9]
Novak Djokovic def.
Stefanos Tsitsipas 6–7(6–8), 2–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–4Barbora Krejčíková def.Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6–1, 2–6, 6–4Pierre-Hugues Herbert /Nicolas Mahut def.
Alexander Bublik /Andrey Golubev 4–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–4Barbora Krejčíková /Kateřina Siniaková def.Bethanie Mattek-Sands /
Iga Świątek 6–4, 6–2Desirae Krawczyk /Joe Salisbury def.Elena Vesnina /Aslan Karatsev, 2–6, 6–4, [10–5]Alfie Hewett def.
Shingo Kunieda, 6–3, 6–4Diede de Groot def.Yui Kamiji, 6–4, 6–3Dylan Alcott def.Sam Schröder, 6–4, 6–2Alfie Hewett /Gordon Reid def.Stéphane Houdet /Nicolas Peifer, 6–3, 6–0Diede de Groot /Aniek van Koot def.Yui Kamiji /Jordanne Whiley, 6–3, 6–4Andy Lapthorne /David Wagner def.Dylan Alcott /Sam Schröder, 7–6(7–1), 4–6, [10–7]Luca Van Assche def.Arthur Fils, 6–4, 6–2Linda Nosková def.Erika Andreeva, 7–6(7–3), 6–3Arthur Fils /Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard def.
Martin Katz /
German Samofalov, 7–5, 6–2Alex Eala /Oksana Selekhmeteva def.Maria Bondarenko /
Amarissa Kiara Tóth, 6–0, 7–5As a Grand Slam tournament, the points for the French Open are the highest of all ATP and WTA tournaments.[10] These points determine the world ATP and WTA rankings for men's and women's competition, respectively. In both singles and doubles, women received slightly higher point totals compared to their male counterparts at each round of the tournament, except for the first and last.[10][11] Points and rankings for the wheelchair events fall under the jurisdiction of theITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour, which also places Grand Slams as the highest classification.[12]
The ATP and WTA rankings were both altered in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13] Both rankings were frozen on 16 March 2020 upon the suspension of both tours, and as a result the traditional 52-week ranking system was extended to cover the period from March 2019 to March 2021 with a player's best 18 results in that time period factoring into their point totals.
For the ATP, In March 2021, the ATP extended the "best of" logic to their rankings through to the week of 9 August 2021.
Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Men's singles | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's doubles | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Women's singles | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 | |
| Women's doubles | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
Wheelchair points[edit]
| Junior points[edit]
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About a month before the tournament began, the prize money pool was announced to be€34,367,215, a reduction of 10.53% compared to the prize pool for2020 edition.[15][16]
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | R16 | R32 | R64 | R128 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | €1,400,000 | €750,000 | €375,000 | €255,000 | €170,000 | €113,000 | €84,000 | €60,000 | €25,600 | €16,000 | €10,000 |
| Doubles* | €244,295 | €144,074 | €84,749 | €49,853 | €29,325 | €17,250 | €11,500 | — | — | — | — |
| Mixed doubles* | €122,000 | €61,000 | €31,000 | €17,500 | €10,000 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wheelchair singles | €53,000 | € | € | € | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wheelchair doubles* | €16,000 | € | € | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Quad Wheelchair singles | €20,000 | € | € | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Quad Wheelchair doubles* | €4,000 | € | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
*per team
| Preceded by | French Open | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Grand Slam events | Succeeded by |
