The home of the French Grand Slam will receive international delegations for the clashes which will begin on July 27, 2024. It will be the first time, since Barcelona 1992, that the tournament will be played on clay.
What was only a rumor today has been confirmed by the Olympic Games themselves: Roland Garros will host the tennis duels in Paris 2024. A union that further elevates the mysticism of the competition and which already has its sights on Olympic tennis. Will Nadal on the court become a legend? Will Djokovic be able to win his long-awaited medal in the venue that resisted him the most among the big boys? Questions that will only be answered over time, but which are already causing insomnia among fans.
And it is that bringing Olympic tennis to the site located on avenue Gordon Bennett is a plus for Paris 2024. Firstly because it will provoke clay returns to a ring date, after 32 years away . The last (and only) time clay featured in modern games was in Barcelona in 1992, where Marc Rosset and Jennifer Capriati won gold in the individual events.
Between Barcelona and Paris, tennis was played six times on cement (Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo) and once on grass, during the memorable edition of London 2012. It was also the first time a Grand Slam venue hosted Olympic competitions.
A milestone that will be repeated in Paris. Roland Garros will receive, a month apart, both the Grand Slam and the Games in 2024, transforming it into the capital of world tennis that year. Specific the competitions will start on July 24 and will last ten days until August 4 allowing the Parisian public to attend the men’s and women’s singles and doubles duels, as well as the mixed doubles.
The venue has the Philippe Chatrier as its main stage, a stadium with a capacity of 15,000 fans and a retractable roof that allows playing despite weather conditions. It also has two secondary stadiums like the Suzanne Lenglen (10,600 spectators) and the Simonne Mathieu (5,000 spectators). JAlong with these stadiums, it has 17 auxiliary pitches.
Two years away, it is still too early to speak of candidates for gold, but Roland Garros being the chosen place, many people immediately think of Rafael Nadal as the big favorite . With 14 Grand Slam titles on this ground behind him, the man from Manaco has become a legend on French clay and his supporters will hope the story will continue in 2024. It could be the second singles gold medal for Rafa, who beat Fernando Gónzalez in the Beijing 2008 final.
Paris could also find another attempt by Djokovic to get the resisted Olympic gold, the one he is still unable to get. Zverev should go defend his medal instead. Instead, new stars like Sinner and Alcaraz could debut on a Phillipe Chatrier rings date.
News of the return of brick dust to the Games is also good news for Chile, as having the chance to play the duels on clay will be an advantage for surface specialists which have almost always been complicated in previous editions.
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Source: Latercera
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