From 2021, the Roland-Garros tournament will schedule a match every evening, from 9 p.m., from the first week until the quarter-finals on the Philippe-Chartrier court.
These nightly sessions will be broadcast exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
From 2021, Roland-Garros will program from 9 p.m. night sessions on the Philippe-Chatrier court, with a match every evening from the first week until the quarter-finals, i.e. ten evenings in total, the organizers announced on Sunday. of the Parisian Grand Slam.
"From Monday of the first week (second day of the tournament, Editor's note) to the quarter-finals (Wednesday of the second week, Editor's note), ten evening sessions will be scheduled on the Philippe-Chatrier court", announced the organizers in a press release.
TV rights shared until 2023 by France Télévisions and Amazon
This "poster of the day" will concern the men's or women's draw, and will start at 9 p.m.
A specific ticket office will be set up for these night sessions, in parallel with those already existing for the day sessions.
As planned by the call for tenders concluded in June 2019, the broadcasting of these night sessions will be provided "exclusively in France by Amazon Prime Video", it is specified.
The TV rights for the Paris tournament for the 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions are shared between France Télévisions and the American online sales giant.
Amazon will also exclusively broadcast the scheduled matches on the Simonne-Mathieu court, inaugurated in 2019. The arrival of the night sessions is due to the renovation work carried out on the Roland-Garros site, which notably enabled the Philippe-Chatrier court to acquire a retractable roof, and the installation of lighting on 12 of the 14 courts.