DATE: May 28 - June 11, 2023
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: €49,600,000
FIELD SIZE: 128
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Rafael Nadal
Seeds:
1. Carlos Alcaraz
2. Daniil Medvedev
3. Novak Djokovic
4. Casper Ruud
5. Stefanos Tsitsipas
6. Holger Rune
7. Andrey Rublev
8. Jannik Sinner
9. Taylor Fritz
10. Felix Auger-Aliassime
11. Karen Khachanov
12. Frances Tiafoe
13. Hubert Hurkacz
14. Cameron Norrie
15. Borna Coric
16. Tommy Paul
17. Lorenzo Musetti
18. Alex de Minaur
19. Roberto Bautista Agut
20. Dan Evans
21. Jan-Lennard Struff
22. Alexander Zverev
23. Francisco Cerundolo
24. Sebastian Korda
25. Botic van de Zandschulp
26. Denis Shapovalov
27. Yoshihito Nishioka
28. Grigor Dimitrov
29. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
30. Ben Shelton
31. Miomir Kecmanovic
32. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
The Tournament:
The French Open (French: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and venue are named after the French aviator Roland Garros. The French Open is the premier clay court championship in the world and the only Grand Slam tournament currently held on this surface. It is chronologically the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments, occurring after the Australian Open and before Wimbledon and the US Open. Until 1975, the French Open was the only major tournament not played on grass. Between the seven rounds needed for a championship, the clay surface characteristics (slower pace, higher bounce), and the best-of-five-set men's singles matches, the French Open is widely regarded as the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world.
About Paris:
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents as of 1 January 2023 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the fourth-most populated city in the European Union as well as the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its early and extensive system of street lighting, in the 19th century, it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world.
The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants on January 1, 2023, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, in 2022, Paris was the city with the ninth-highest cost of living in the world.
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SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: €49,600,000
FIELD SIZE: 128
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Rafael Nadal
Seeds:
1. Carlos Alcaraz
2. Daniil Medvedev
3. Novak Djokovic
4. Casper Ruud
5. Stefanos Tsitsipas
6. Holger Rune
7. Andrey Rublev
8. Jannik Sinner
9. Taylor Fritz
10. Felix Auger-Aliassime
11. Karen Khachanov
12. Frances Tiafoe
13. Hubert Hurkacz
14. Cameron Norrie
15. Borna Coric
16. Tommy Paul
17. Lorenzo Musetti
18. Alex de Minaur
19. Roberto Bautista Agut
20. Dan Evans
21. Jan-Lennard Struff
22. Alexander Zverev
23. Francisco Cerundolo
24. Sebastian Korda
25. Botic van de Zandschulp
26. Denis Shapovalov
27. Yoshihito Nishioka
28. Grigor Dimitrov
29. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
30. Ben Shelton
31. Miomir Kecmanovic
32. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
The Tournament:
The French Open (French: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and venue are named after the French aviator Roland Garros. The French Open is the premier clay court championship in the world and the only Grand Slam tournament currently held on this surface. It is chronologically the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments, occurring after the Australian Open and before Wimbledon and the US Open. Until 1975, the French Open was the only major tournament not played on grass. Between the seven rounds needed for a championship, the clay surface characteristics (slower pace, higher bounce), and the best-of-five-set men's singles matches, the French Open is widely regarded as the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world.
About Paris:
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents as of 1 January 2023 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the fourth-most populated city in the European Union as well as the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its early and extensive system of street lighting, in the 19th century, it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world.
The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants on January 1, 2023, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, in 2022, Paris was the city with the ninth-highest cost of living in the world.
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