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{{Short description|Annual tennis tournament held in Paris}}
{{redirect-multi|2|French Championships|Roland-Garros|other uses|French Championship (disambiguation)|and|Roland Garros (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox GrandSlamTournaments
| Name          = French Open<br/>(Roland-Garros)
| Last          = 2024 French Open
| Last alias    = 2024 French Open
| Current       = 2025 French Open
| Current alias = 2025 French Open
| Logo          = Logo Roland-Garros.svg
| Logo size     = 150px
| Bar Color     = #FF915F
| Founded       = {{start date and age|df=yes|1891}}
| Editions      = 128 (2024)<br />94 [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] events (since [[1925 French Championships|1925]])
| City          = [[Paris]], [[16th arrondissement of Paris|XVIth arrondissement]]
| Country       = [[France]]
| Venue         = [[Stade Roland Garros]] (since 1928)<br />
Societé de Sport de Île de Puteaux, at [[Puteaux]] (1891–1894); Tennis Club de Paris, at [[Auteuil, Paris|Auteuil]] (1895–1908); Société Athlétique de la Villa Primrose at [[Bordeaux]] (1909); Croix-Catelan de [[Racing Club de France]] at the [[Bois de Boulogne]] (1910–1924, 1926); [[Stade Français]] at [[Saint-Cloud]] (1925, 1927)
| Surface       = [[Clay court|Clay]] – outdoors{{efn|Except [[Stade Roland Garros#Court Philippe Chatrier|Court Philippe Chatrier]] during rain delay.}} (1908–present)<br />Sand – outdoors (1892–1907)<br />Grass – outdoors (1891)
| Prize Money   = [[euro|€]]53,500,000 (2024)
| Men Draw      = {{abbr|S|Singles}} (128{{abbr|Q|Qualification}}) / 64{{abbr|D|Doubles}} (16{{abbr|Q|Qualification}}){{efn|name=draw|In the main draws, there are 128 singles players (S) and 64 doubles teams (D), and there are 128 and 16 entrants in the respective qualifying (Q) draws.}}
| Men Current   = [[Carlos Alcaraz]] (singles) <br /> [[Marcelo Arévalo]]<br />[[Mate Pavić]] (doubles)
| Men Most S    = [[Rafael Nadal]] (14)
| Men Most D    = [[Roy Emerson]] (6)
| Women Draw    = {{abbr|S|Singles}} (128{{abbr|Q|Qualification}}) / 64{{abbr|D|Doubles}} (16{{abbr|Q|Qualification}})
| Women Current = [[Iga Świątek]] (singles) <br /> [[Coco Gauff]]  <br /> [[Kateřina Siniaková]] (doubles)
| Women Most S  = [[Chris Evert]] (7)
| Women Most D  = [[Martina Navratilova]] (7)
| Mixed Draw    = 32
| Mixed Current = [[Laura Siegemund]] <br /> [[Édouard Roger-Vasselin]]
| Mixed Most M  = [[Ken Fletcher]] / <br /> [[Jean-Claude Barclay]] (3)
| Mixed Most F  = [[Margaret Court]] (4)
| Web site      = http://rolandgarros.com
| Notes         = 
}}

The '''French Open''' ({{langx|fr|Internationaux de France de tennis}}), also known as '''Roland-Garros''' ({{IPA|fr|ʁɔlɑ̃ ɡaʁos|lang}}), is a [[tennis]] tournament organized by the [[French Tennis Federation]] annually at [[Stade Roland Garros]] in [[Paris]], France. It is chronologically the second of the four [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] [[tennis]] events every year, held after the [[Australian Open]] and before [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]] and the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]].

The French Open begins in late May and continues for two weeks.{{efn|Usually the tournament is held in late May to early June. However, there have been exceptions:
*The 1946 and 1947 tournaments were held in July after [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] following the [[aftermath of World War II]];
*2020 was held in late September after the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]] following the suspension of [[2020 ATP Tour|ATP]] and [[2020 WTA Tour|WTA Tours]] from mid-March to August due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in France|COVID-19 pandemic]];
*2021 it was postponed by one week also due to the pandemic after virus cases rose in France in March of that year.}} The tournament and venue are named after the French aviator [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/briefing/roland-garros-facts-french-open.html|title=Who Was Roland Garros? The Fighter Pilot Behind the French Open|first=Evan|last=Gershkovich|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=10 June 2017|access-date=25 January 2022|archive-date=9 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109195141/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/briefing/roland-garros-facts-french-open.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The French Open is the premier [[clay court]] championship in the world and the only Grand Slam tournament currently held on this [[Tennis surface|surface]]. Until 1975, the French Open was the only major tournament not played on [[Grass court|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 tournament in tennis.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/sports/tennis/french-open-toughest-win-making-record-paris-all-more-special-djokovic-2023-06-11/|title=French Open toughest to win, making Paris record more special, Djokovic says|first=Karolos|last=Grohmann|work=[[Reuters]]|date=12 June 2023|access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/sports/french-open-2021-why-roland-garros-is-the-toughest-grand-slam-to-win-9649371.html|title=French Open 2021: Why Roland Garros is the toughest Grand Slam to win?|first=Gaurav|last=Natekar|work=First Post|date=24 May 2021|access-date=25 January 2022|archive-date=25 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125060127/https://www.firstpost.com/sports/french-open-2021-why-roland-garros-is-the-toughest-grand-slam-to-win-9649371.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/05/15/french-open-unique-all-world-demands-dancers-agility-an-iron-will/|title=The French Open, 'unique in all the world', demands a dancer's agility and an iron will|first=Liz|last=Clarke|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=15 May 2020|access-date=25 January 2022|archive-date=1 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201050446/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/05/15/french-open-unique-all-world-demands-dancers-agility-an-iron-will/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN18L03L|title=Roland Garros now toughest slam of all, says former champ|first=Ossian|last=Shine|work=[[Reuters]]|date=25 May 2017|access-date=25 January 2022|archive-date=25 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125060129/https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN18L03L|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/698576-french-open-why-winning-at-roland-garros-is-the-ultimate-pinnacle-of-sports|title=French Open: Why Winning at Roland Garros Is the Pinnacle of Sports|first=David|last=Dietz|work=[[Bleacher Report]]|date=12 May 2011|access-date=25 January 2022|archive-date=25 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125060129/https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/698576-french-open-why-winning-at-roland-garros-is-the-ultimate-pinnacle-of-sports.amp.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/26/news/preview.php| title= In a year of change at Roland Garros, the winners may stay the same |first=Christopher|last=Clarey|work=[[International Herald Tribune]]|date=26 May 2006|access-date=8 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016123605/http://iht.com/articles/2006/05/26/news/preview.php |archive-date=16 October 2007 }}</ref>