Roland Garros 2026: Preview, draw, schedule, player list, UK times & how to watch
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Roland Garros is back as the world's best tennis stars head to Paris for the second Grand Slam of the year.
Roland Garros is one of four Grand Slam events in the tennis calendar with singles and doubles draws for women's, men's, wheelchair and junior tournaments.
Check out the latest schedule, draws, player lists and information on how to watch this year's Roland Garros.
When is Roland Garros 2026?
This year’s Roland Garros will kick-start on Monday 18 May with the qualifying stages before the main draw action gets underway on Sunday 24 May.
The 15-day long tournament will conclude Sunday 7 June.
Day sessions are scheduled to take place at 10:00 BST, with the night sessions starting at not before 19:15 BST.
Where is Roland Garros 2026 being held?
Roland Garros, also known as the French Open, is staged at Stade Roland Garros in the heart of Paris.
The 21-acre complex is home to 20 red clay courts, including the iconic Court Philippe Chatrier and Court Suzanne Lenglen.
What is the Roland Garros schedule?
The 2026 Roland Garros schedule is as follows:
- Qualifying: 18-22 May
- Men’s and women’s singles: 24 May - 7 June
- Men’s and women’s doubles: 26 May - 7 June
- Mixed doubles: 28 May - 4 June
- Junior events: 1-6 June
- Wheelchair events: 3-6 June
Roland Garros 2026 draw
More information on the Roland Garros draw will be available closers to the tournament start date. YOu can find all the draws via the link below:
Where to watch Roland Garros 2026
You can watch all the action from Roland Garros 2026 live in the UK on TNT Sports and discovery+.
Which British players will be competing at Roland Garros 2026?
Women's singles
Four Brits have gained direct entry to the main draw of Roland Garros this year, after Jack Draper and Sonay Kartal were forced to withdraw due to injury.
On the women’s side, Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter will lead the charge as they look to make their mark on the Paris clay.
Raducanu, is aiming to return after illness disrupted the start of her clay campaign. The British No.1 hasn’t featured since reaching the second round at Indian Wells but is hoping to be back on court in Paris. If fully fit, she’ll need to quickly find her rhythm on the dirt at the second Grand Slam of the season.
Meanwhile, Boulter has grown in confidence on the surface over the past couple of seasons and will arrive at the French Open in encouraging form. The 29-year-old reached the quarter-finals of the WTA 250 in Rouen before picking up wins in both singles and doubles at the Mutua Madrid Open. Now, she'll turn her attention to clocking a deep run at Roland Garros where she'll hope to surpass her tournament best run of the second round.
Men’s singles
On the men’s side, Cam Norrie arrives as Britain’s leading hope following an impressive start to the clay swing. The British No.1 backed up a quarter-final appearance in Barcelona with a run to the fourth round in Madrid, where he pushed world No.1 Jannik Sinner in their career-first meeting.
Having made the fourth round in Paris last year, Norrie will be eyeing another deep run at the tournament as he bids to reach a maiden quarter-final at Roland Garros.
Jacob Fearnley joins Norrie in the main draw, with Roland Garros marking his first appearance since competing at the Miami Open back in March. Fearnley had a memorable debut in Paris last year - beating three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka and 22nd seed Ugo Humbert on his way to the third round where he fell short to compatriot Norrie.
Elsewhere, a strong group of British players head into qualifying, including Francesca Jones, Harriet Dart, Jan Choinski, Jay Clarke, Jack Pinnington Jones, Dan Evans, Billy Harris, Arthur Fery, Toby Samuel, Liam Broady, Oliver Crawford and Harry Wendelken.
The doubles entry list will be available closer to the time.
Wheelchair
World No.2 Alfie Hewett will look to reclaim his Grand Slam singles dominance at the second Grand Slam of the season. Hewett has been in fine form already this year, having claimed three wheelchair 500 titles already.
Hewett is a three-time Roland Garros singles champion and six time doubles champion, alongside Gordon Reid who joins Hewett in the singles draw. On top of the six crowns he was won with his fellow Brit, Reid also has a further two Roland Garros doubles titles to his name - having lifted the title in 2015 and 2016 with Shingo Kunieda.
Meanwhile in the quad draw, Andy Lapthorne will return to the venue where he picked up a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games with doubles partner Greg Slade.
Who are the top seeds for Roland Garros 2026?
Check out the top seeds for this year's Roland Garros:
WTA
- Aryna Sabalenka
- Elena Rybakina (KAZ)
- Iga Swiatek (POL)
- Coco Gauff (USA)
- Jessica Pegula (USA)
ATP
- Jannik Sinner (ITA)
- Alexander Zverev (GER)
- Novak Djokovic (SEB)
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN)
- Ben Shelton (USA)
Who are the reigning Roland Garros champions?
- Women’s singles: Coco Gauff (USA)
- Men’s singles: Carlos Alcaraz (ESP)
- Women’s doubles: Jasmine Paolini (ITA) & Sara Errani (ITA)
- Men’s doubles: Horacio Zeballos (ARG) & Marcel Granollers (ESP)
- Mixed doubles: Sara Errani (ITA) & Andrea Vavassori (ITA)
- Wheelchair men’s singles: Tokito Oda (JPN)
- Wheelchair women’s singles: Yui Kamiji (JPN)
- Wheelchair quad singles: Guy Sasson (ISR)
- Wheelchair men’s doubles: Alfie Hewett (GBR) & Gordon Reid (GBR)
- Wheelchair women’s doubles: Yui Kamiji (JPN) & Kgothatso Montjane (RSA)
- Wheelchair quad doubles: Guy Sasson (ISR) & Niels Vink (NED)
Roland Garros results
You can follow all the latest French Open results of our British tennis players on our website and social media channels.
Come back soon to find out more.
Roland Garros 2026 prize money
The Roland Garros prize money for this year’s tournament has seen a significant increase, with €61.7 million (£53.7 million)being handed out across all draws.
View the full prize money break down below:
Previous British success at Roland Garros
Sue Barker is the only British singles player to have won the Roland Garros title in the Open Era after she beat Czech star Renata Tomanova in the 1976 women’s final.
At the start of the Open Era in 1968 and 1969, Britain’s Ann Jones made back-to-back finals but finished runner-up in both to Nancy Richy and Margaret Court.
However, Jones did win the women’s doubles title in both those years as well – teaming up with France’s Franciose Durr.
Virginia Wade was also crowned women’s doubles champion with Court back in 1973, beating Durr and Betty Stove 6-2, 6-3.
Andy Murray is the only male British player to have made a singles final in Paris during the Open Era back in 2016 when he ascended to world No.1. Murray lost out to now three-time champion Novak Djokovic in the final 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.
2025 saw Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski become the first British players to reach the men's doubles final at Roland Garros since 1936 where they fell short against Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers, 6-0, 6-7(5), 7-5.
In the mixed doubles, Great Britain has had two winners in the Open Era. First was John Lloyd with Australia’s Wendy Turnbull in 1982 and then later, Salisbury with American Desirae Krawczyk in 2021.
Skupski and Krawczyk finished runners-up in 2024, joining Winnie Shaw (1971) as Britain’s only other mixed doubles runner-up.
In the wheelchair game, Alfie Hewett and Gordron Reid are currently on a streak of six successive Roland Garros titles. 2025 saw the pair lift their sixth doubles tilte in Paris after they beat Stephane Houdet and Tokito Oda 6-4, 1-6, 10-7. Hewett has also won the men's wheelchair singles title three times in his career.
