PARIS — Prize cash at Roland Garros has been elevated by about 10%, bringing the entire pot to 61.7 million euros (about $72.1 million), organizers introduced Thursday.
The match begins on Might twenty fourth at Roland Garros, west of Paris.
The lads’s and girls’s singles winners will every obtain 2.8 million euros ($3.25 million), and the runners-up will obtain 1.4 million euros ($1.6 million). Semi-finalists will obtain 750,000 euros ($875,000) and first-round losers will obtain 87,000 euros ($100,000).
The winner of the lads’s and girls’s doubles occasion will obtain 600,000 euros ($700,000), whereas the blended doubles winner will obtain 122,000 euros ($140,000).
Final 12 months, Carlos Alcaraz got here from behind to defeat Jannik Sinner in a five-set ultimate, whereas Coco Gauff defeated Aryna Sabalenka for the ladies’s title.
Event director Amelie Mauresmo additionally introduced on Thursday that for the primary time, gamers will have the ability to put on transportable data-gathering units on courtroom to achieve details about their bodily efficiency.
Mauresmo reiterated the significance of privateness for athletes. This was a problem raised by Iga Swiatek and Gauff at this 12 months’s Australian Open, the place Gauff’s racket slamming away from the courtroom turned a scorching matter on-line.
Swiatek stated gamers felt like they have been being watched like “animals in a zoo,” with seemingly limitless, all-area entry cameras monitoring gamers.
Mauresmo didn’t point out the Australian Open itself, saying tennis ought to keep “respect for privateness” and have secluded areas.
“Athletes want a personal space and that can proceed to be the case,” she stated. “You do not have entry to the cameras (there).”
The French Open can be undaunted by digital line calls, which Wimbledon and most main tennis tournaments have adopted. As an alternative, it stays centered on human linesmen.
“They are not 100% dependable,” Mauresmo stated, “however our resolution was to go our means.”
Nevertheless, Mauresmo accepted that the ladies would play five-set matches like the lads.
“You may’t change the format in a single day and go from best-of-three to best-of-five. But when you consider it, is it simply the semi-finals, the ultimate or all of the matches?” requested the 2006 Wimbledon champion. “This may very well be a win-win scenario, however we have to focus on this with the ladies’s gamers.”
Mauresmo was additionally requested in regards to the schedule for evening matches after there have been no girls’s matches within the evening session final 12 months.
“We are going to focus on schedules when the time is true,” she stated, with out elaborating. “Nothing is about in stone, nothing is about in stone. It will depend on the draw and the lineup.”
