Tennis at the Olympics will begin on Saturday, July 27 and run through Sunday, August 4.
There’s an extra chance for eternal glory between Wimbledon and the U.S. Open this summer, but there’s something on the line that players can’t win at a Grand Slam—Olympic gold.
The famed Roland Garros, unofficially known as the French Open, will add Olympic rings to its iconic clay courts as the tennis host of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Olympic tennis festivities will begin one day after the opening ceremony of the Games, which is on Friday, July 26. Medal events will include men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.
Each of the five star-studded events involve single-elimination tournaments. Men’s and women’s singles will both feature 64 competitors (with a limit of four singles players per gender per country), while men’s and women doubles draws will include 32 teams each. Seedings are based on international rankings.
All tennis matches in Paris will be best-of-three sets with a standard tie-break in every set.
Roland-Garros features 18 clay courts, and the main court—Philippe-Chatrier Court—will serve as center stage for the finals in each event. In singles, it will take six consecutive match wins to reach the top of the podium. Tennis was absent from the Games for decades until its comeback as a full medal sport in 1988. And since then, the best players in the world have competed for gold every (well, in most cases) four years.
Here’s what fans need to know about Olympic men’s tennis this time around in Paris.How to Watch Olympic Men’s Tennis
Tennis at the Olympics will begin on Saturday, July 27 and run through Sunday, August 4.
The competition schedule is subject to change until the end of the Games, but here’s how the tennis calendar currently looks, with start times, on the men’s side:
Saturday, July 27
Men’s singles first round, 6 a.
