{"id":600248,"date":"2026-05-23T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600248\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:07:09","slug":"wawrinka-ready-for-fitting-finale-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600248\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawrinka ready for fitting finale &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Roland-Garros champion has signed the new \u2018Wall of Champions\u2019 at Court Philippe-Chatrier, just a few steps away from the scene of one of his finest career fortnights.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of one of the sweetest one-handed backhands the sport has ever seen will take on Dutch lucky loser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/42304-j.de-jong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jesper De Jong<\/a> in his first match. De Jong  replaced the injured Arthur Fils in the men&#8217;s draw when the Frenchman withdrew from his home Grand Slam on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/results\/SM?round=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Roland-Garros 2026 men&#8217;s singles draw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel good,&#8221; Wawrinka said. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to have an opportunity to play one last time here. Of course, it&#8217;s not going to be easy at the end, but so far I&#8217;m happy. Always special to be back here at Roland-Garros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main image I will remember will be going up the steps and getting onto the court in 2015,&#8221; said the former world No.3, reflecting on his time in Paris. &#8220;It was probably the most important moment I lived in Roland-Garros.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2015 Roland-Garros champion has signed the new \u2018Wall of Champions\u2019 at Court Philippe-Chatrier, just a few steps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600248","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\/600248","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=600248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}