Roland-Garros is actively preparing for the 2024 Olympic Games. The courts will host boxing in particular.
Like Wimbledon for the London Games in 2012, Roland-Garros will be on time for the Games. The infrastructure built in 1928 will continue to evolve through works. Expanded and modernized over the years, the stadium now covers 11 hectares and has 17 clay courts.
During the last modernization plan carried out from 2015 to 2020, the Simonne-Mathieu court with 5,000 seats was integrated into the garden of the Auteuil greenhouses.
The court Philippe-Chartrier, the flagship with 15,000 seats, is fitted with a retractable roof. Fifteen minutes are enough to open or close the eleven wings of 330 tons each that compose it. Since 2021, part of the competition can take place at night.
From boxing to Roland-Garros
As at the gala on September 10 of this year, with Souleymane Cissokho, boxing will be present at Roland Garros. In the history of Roland Garros, three fights had already taken place on the central court. That of 1946, Marcel Cerdan against Holman Williams, after which the French boxer met Édith Piaf. The site of the Porte d’Auteuil (16e) then hosted the European Championships in 1971 (Jean-Claude Bouttier / Carlo Duran) and the World Championships in 1973 with the revenge between Jean-Claude Bouttier and Carlos Monzon.
Tennis and wheelchair tennis players will try to win a medal on the Philippe-Chatrier court. The sitting volleyball events will take place on the Suzanne-Lenglen court.
