Selection of players and regional diversity
The tournament will bring together 16 boys and 16 girls. Nine players from each table will be qualified via the ITF World Tennis Junior Junior ranking, arrested on July 14, 2025. Four others will come from regional qualifications organized in Almaty (Kazakhstan) for Central and West Asia, and Hainan (China) for South and Southeast Asia, two official Roland-Garros clubs which benefit from quality infrastructures. The other players will receive Wild-Cards from the FFT, ATF and JTA.
To be eligible, players will have to be born after January 1, 2009 and being over 13 May 2026. Among the selection of the best players, Hursh Patel benefits from a Wild-Card from the FFT. Trained by Marion Bartoli, he highlights the boom in tennis in India and symbolizes an important step for discipline in the country.
The president of the Asian Tennis Federation, Yuriy Polskiy, also wanted to highlight his desire for diversification and his commitment to clay tournaments: “This second edition of Roland-Garros Junior Series by Renault highlights our partnership with the FFT, with which we are united with the aim of promoting competitions on this surface and working on the development of future generations across the planet and continents.”
