French Open 2022: Overview

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French Open 2022

The 2022 French Open ran 22 May – 5 June at Roland-Garros. This board is now the permanent record — every bracket, board and number below is frozen exactly where the fortnight left it, and I re-derived all of it from the results before locking. No live scoring, no betting — just what happened, exact. The story this board tells: Rafael Nadal beat Casper Ruud in straight sets for a 14th Roland-Garros title and a 22nd major, having gone through defending champion Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals and an Alexander Zverev ankle retirement in the semis; Iga Świątek came past Coco Gauff for a second Roland-Garros crown; the defending women’s champion, Barbora Krejčíková, lost her opening match to Diane Parry; Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic took the women’s doubles unseeded; and this was the first Roland-Garros decided under the 10-point final-set tiebreak.

The road to the finals

How the titles were won — the semi-finals, the final, and the champions.

Men's Singles

Semi-finals

Jun 3

Rafael Nadal5
Alexander Zverev3
Casper Ruud8
Marin Čilić20

Final

Jun 5

Rafael Nadal5
Casper Ruud8

 

 

Rafael Nadal

Champion

Women's Singles

Semi-finals

Jun 2

Iga Świątek1
Daria Kasatkina20
Martina Trevisan
Coco Gauff18

Final

Jun 4

Iga Świątek1
Coco Gauff18

 

 

Iga Świątek

Champion

Championships pulse · all five draws

411 / 411Matches played
1,119Sets of tennis
154Tiebreaks
256Singles players entered
64Seeds entered

The field, by nation

Singles entrants, top 6 nations

United States30
France28
Neutral19
Spain15
Italy12
Argentina11

How it finished

Straight sets, a set dropped, or unfinished

Straight sets23557%
A set dropped16239%
Retired / walkover143%

Wins by nation

Singles match wins, top 6

United States37
Neutral30
Spain19
France15
Italy15
Serbia11

Sets per match

Completed matches, by sets played

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Match length

Total games played, completed matches

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How players entered

The singles field, by route in

Direct entry19175%
Qualifier3212%
Wild card166%
Protected ranking73%
Lucky loser104%

Tiebreaks by round

Tiebreak sets, both singles draws

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Longest matches

Most games played, top 6

Giannessi v Gojo59
Viñolas v Alcaraz55
Rublev v Čilić53
Carabelli v Karatsev51
Isner v Miralles51
Taverna v Fritz51

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1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [1] Novak Djokovic (Quarter-finals).

Women's Singles

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1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [2] Barbora Krejčíková (Round of 128).

All times are CEST

Every time on these French Open pages is CEST — Central European Summer Time, Paris’s clock, two hours ahead of UTC during the tournament. It’s the clock Roland-Garros runs on.

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