Paris (AFP)
Moved to the fall because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Roland-Garros is doing everything to be held in September with "a maximum" of public, but "it is the government that decides" on the acceptable influx, a said Monday the president of the French Tennis Federation (FFT), Bernard Giudicelli.
"The option that I favor is a Roland-Garros that takes place with a maximum of public. After, depending on sanitary conditions, we will adjust to the directives given to us by the government. It is the government who decides the attendance and the maximum gauge ", declared Mr. Giudicelli during a live on the internet orchestrated by Gaël Monfils.
"The camera is really the assumption that we do not like because Roland-Garros, like all the big tournaments, it is a meeting between the players and the public. This is what makes the magic of this tournament, "repeated the leader.
"We absolutely want to try to maintain this magic and I think that with the enlargement of the stadium (in 2019 with the addition of the Simonne-Mathieu court, editor's note) and the barrier measures, we can completely consider "organize the tournament with a reduced gauge and which guarantees at the same time the protection of the players, the spectators and all those who work there", he assured.
The professional circuit has been stopped since mid-September and, for the moment, until the end of July.
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