ROLAND GARROS 2021. The Roland Garros final is on the program this Sunday. After his prodigious victory against Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic faces Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final of the French tennis internationals. Follow this match live and the result minute by minute.
The essential
- It is the big day for the final men of Roland-Garros 2021. The Serbian Novak Djokovic, who managed to dethrone the Spaniard Rafael Nadal on Friday evening in the semi-final, will he manage to recreate the feat against the Greek Stéfanos Tsitsipás? The meeting is scheduled from 3 p.m. on Philippe Chatrier court. The program.
- On Saturday, the French duo Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert won their fifth Grand Slam title, the second on clay, against Kazakhs Andrey Golubev and Alexander Bublik (6-4, 6-7 (1-7), 4 -6). Earlier today, Czech Barbora Krejčíková won the 2021 Roland-Garros ladies final against Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Final score: 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. Barbora Krejčíková thus won the first Grand Slam title of his career. The results.
- Live scores, analyzes, highlights, reactions, follow the news of this Roland-Garros 2021 live throughout the fortnight.
- To follow Roland-Garros 2021 on TV or on the Internet, go to France TV and Amazon, which this year offers night session broadcasts (subscribe to Amazon Prime Video).
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14:34 – A historic victory, no matter what
This evening, when the match has rendered its verdict, there will be a victory that will mark the history of tennis. Quite simply because Stefanos Tsitsipas has never won a Grand Slam during his young career (23 years) but also because by winning a new Roland Garros, Djokovic would become the first player to win all the titles at least twice. of the Grand Slam.
14:25 – Tsitsipas has already beaten Djokovic, never on earth
If he knows the recipe on other surfaces, Tsitsipas has never found the key to beat Djokovic on clay. In all, the two men have faced each other 7 times and the Greek has won twice. But in 3 confrontations on earth, the Serbian has always finished winning.
14:15 – Djokovic wants to come back to the Nadal / Federer duo
It is sometimes difficult to share them on the court. So the track record is a good indicator. And when we talk about champions, we should not be afraid to count the trophies. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have 20 while the current world number 1 has 18. By winning Roland Garros, Djoko would come back to a length.
14:08 – Nadal’s winners never win Roland Garros
This is just a stat ‘which doesn’t mean much but we’ll see if it still holds up in a few hours. At Roland Garros, Rafael Nadal had lost only twice: against Soderling and Djokovic. And each time, neither of them won the tournament in the same year.
14:00 – H -1 before Djokovic – Tsitsipas
In an hour, Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas face each other on the Philippe Chatrier court to win this Roland Garros 2021. A first Grand Slam for the Greek or the 19th for the Serbian? Answer today!
13:09 – Czech Krejčíková wins the ladies’ double with Siniaková
We don’t stop him anymore! After winning the ladies ‘final at Roland Garros 2021 on Saturday 12 June, Czech Barbora Krejčíková and her compatriot Kateřina Siniaková won in straight sets in the ladies’ double final against Poland’s Iga Świątek and American Bethanie Mattek-Sands . Final score: 4-6, 2-6.
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12:23 – “We had chills all the time,” says Nicolas Mahut
After their victory in the men’s doubles final at Roland Garros, the duo Nicolas Mahut / Pierre-Hugues Herbert looked back on their success, but above all on their joy at having found the public. Thus, without the crowd present during the semi-final in particular, they confide that they would perhaps not be so overwhelmed. “I really have the feeling that we were accompanied, from start to finish,” admitted Pierre-Hugues Herbert, for whom “these two weeks were different from everything [qu’il a] been able to live in the past as a tennis player. “And Nicolas Mahut to add:” The fact of having this public, it is … We had chills all the time. “
10:42 – Djokovic – Tsitsipás in a few figures
A few hours away from the Roland-Garros 2021 men’s final, the time has come to take stock of the two finalists in the running. While 11 years separate them, Djokovic, although older and less fiery than his opponent, can boast of having to his credit no less than 18 Grand Slam victories, against zero for his opponent of the day, as well as 29 finals. , still in Grand Slam, against only one for Tsitsipás. Likewise, the advantage also seems to go to the Serbian when it comes to the direct confrontations that have previously taken place between the two athletes: five were won by Djokovic, against two for the Greek. But Tsitsipás could be in better shape than his opponent because of his youth, of course, but also because he has spent two hours less on the courts since the start of Roland Garros: 3:12 p.m. in all, against 5:42 p.m. for Djokovic. One thing is certain, the meeting promises to be rich in emotions!
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Roland-Garros 2021: useful information
At Roland Garros, the official program for each day, available on the official website, can sometimes be turned upside down. Indeed, if the start of the day schedule is clear enough, it is very difficult to predict the exact time of the end of the matches. The main constraints for the organizers of these French Open tennis tournaments: the weather and the time of sunset. Insofar as the majority of the courts do not have lighting, none take place at night at Roland-Garros with the notable exception of the Philippe-Chatrier court, which now has a retractable roof and on which this event is planned. year a match in night session every day, from 9 p.m. Please note that at the end of May-beginning of June, the sun sets between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. The program for Sunday, June 13 (final) :
Here are the main results of this Saturday, June 12, 2021 at Roland-Garros (finals):
- Ladies
- Barbora Krejcikova – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.
- Double Gentlemen
- Andrey Golubev / Alexander Bublik – Nicolas Mahut / Pierre-Hugues Herbert: 6-4, 6-7 (1-7), 4-6
- All the results on the Roland Garros official site
The table for these French Open tennis events was determined by the draw made on Thursday, May 27. Each table brings together 128 participants, including 32 seeds but also the players who will have won their places during the qualifications. In the men, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer were placed in the same half of the table:
In the women’s tournament, the last two Roland Garros winners, Ashleigh Barty (2019) and Iga Swiatek (2020), were also found in the same part of the table:
In the male table, Rafael Nadal, winner last year and who recently won the tournament in Rome, is aiming for a fourteenth coronation on the clay court of Roland-Garros, but will have to deal again with the competition of Novak Djokovic, Alexander Zverev and that of the new generation, led by Stefanos Tsitsipas, semi-finalist in 2020. Two outsiders, Dominic Thiem and Andrey Rublev, were eliminated in the first round. Roger Federer withdrew before his round of 16. In the female tablePolish defending champion Iga Swiatek was also among the top favorites but fell in the quarterfinals. This was also the case for world n ° 1 Ashleigh Barty but the Australian was forced to retire during her second round. Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, who performed very well in recent weeks, was eliminated in the second round, while Serena Williams was knocked out in the round of 16. The Romanian Simona Halep, injured in the calf, had to forfeit before the fortnight.
This new edition of Roland Garros has once again suffered the vagaries of the health crisis: initially planned from May 16 to June 6, it finally takes place May 24 (start of qualifying) to June 13, 2021 (men’s draw final), i.e. less than eight months after the end of the previous edition, which exceptionally disputed the September 27 to October 11, 2020.
The Roland Garros ticketing system is organized in several stages: an exceptional opening was reserved, on Monday May 3, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., to all buyers who had seen their tickets canceled during the 2020 edition, then the licensees. of the French Tennis Federation have benefited as usual from a priority reservation period (May 5, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.). For the general public, the most popular single tickets have been on sale since Wednesday, May 12 (10 a.m.) at the same prices as FFT licensees and within the same order limit, on the dedicated website. Also note that in addition to qualifying matches and main tournament matches, other types of tickets are available for peripheral events: Children’s Day, the Legends Trophy, etc. It is also possible to obtain tickets by coming at the end of the day thanks to the Evening Visitors offer. Finally, the organizers offer Weekend Passes, Semi-Finals Passes or Finals Passes.
Roland Garros had been broadcast for many years by public service channels and by Eurosport, but there is a change for this 2021 edition. Eurosport exit: the broadcasting rights of the competition are now shared between France TV and… Amazon Prime (Subscribe to Amazon Prime Video), the video on demand service, which offers evening matches and those played on the Simonne-Mathieu court, and which brings together for the occasion a cast of choice consultants for the comments of the meetings: we will find in particular Amélie Mauresmo, Marion Bartoli, Pauline Parmentier, Arnaud Clément, Fabrice Santoro, Paul-Henri Mathieu and Patrick Mouratoglou alongside Frédéric Verdier and Sarah Pitkowski. The semi-finals and finals will be co-broadcast.
