{"id":599598,"date":"2026-05-23T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599598\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:07:18","slug":"french-open-2026-dates-schedule-draw-prize-money-how-to-follow-roland-garros-on-the-bbc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599598\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open 2026: Dates, schedule, draw, prize money & how to follow Roland Garros on the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Alcaraz absent, top seed Sinner could secure his own career Grand Slam – winning each of the major tournaments at least once – with the French Open the only one missing from his collection.<\/p>\n

The Italian arrives in Paris in top form, having won the past six ATP Masters 1000 titles – including three consecutive clay-court events at Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome.<\/p>\n

In doing so, he became just the second man, after Novak Djokovic, to complete the full set of nine Masters titles<\/a> – known as the ‘career Golden Masters’.<\/p>\n

Djokovic has won three French Open titles but the 38-year-old has not played many matches this year and suffered an early exit at the Italian Open in his only clay-court appearance this season.<\/p>\n

While Sinner is the red-hot favourite in the men’s draw, picking a women’s singles winner is harder to predict.<\/p>\n

Reigning champion Gauff reached the final of the Italian Open, where she was defeated by Elina Svitolina, but her form has been inconsistent in 2026.<\/p>\n

Barring an injury worry, top seed Sabalenka should be in contention, along with Swiatek – a four-time winner at Roland Garros – and Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Alcaraz absent, top seed Sinner could secure his own career Grand Slam – winning each of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}