French Open 2023: Overview

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French Open 2023

The 2023 French Open ran 28 May – 11 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: Novak Djokovic beat Casper Ruud in straight sets for a record-breaking 23rd men’s major; Iga Świątek came through Karolína Muchová in three for a third Roland-Garros crown; Rafael Nadal missed the tournament for the first time since his 2005 debut; Miyu Kato was defaulted out of the women’s doubles and then won the mixed title with Tim Puetz; and Hsieh Su-wei and Wang Xinyu took the women’s doubles unseeded.

The road to the finals

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

Men's Singles

Semi-finals

Jun 9

Carlos Alcaraz1
Novak Djokovic3
Casper Ruud4
Alexander Zverev22

Final

Jun 11

Novak Djokovic3
Casper Ruud4

 

 

Novak Djokovic

Champion

Women's Singles

Semi-finals

Jun 8

Karolína Muchová
Aryna Sabalenka2
Iga Świątek1
Beatriz Haddad Maia14

Final

Jun 10

Iga Świątek1
Karolína Muchová

 

 

Iga Świątek

Champion

Championships pulse · all five draws

411 / 411Matches played
1,136Sets of tennis
145Tiebreaks
256Singles players entered
64Seeds entered

The field, by nation

Singles entrants, top 6 nations

United States34
France28
Neutral23
Italy15
Czechia14
Spain13

How it finished

Straight sets, a set dropped, or unfinished

Straight sets23357%
A set dropped16741%
Retired / walkover / default113%

Wins by nation

Singles match wins, top 6

Neutral37
United States28
Italy17
Argentina15
Spain13
Poland10

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 entry18974%
Qualifier3212%
Wild card166%
Protected ranking94%
Lucky loser104%

Tiebreaks by round

Tiebreak sets, both singles draws

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12
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Longest matches

Most games played, top 6

Vavassori v Kecmanović59
Isner v Borges58
Sinner v Altmaier58
Griekspoor v Hurkacz57
Halys v Pella57
Monteiro v Hanfmann57

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1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [1] Carlos Alcaraz (Semi-finals).

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1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [2] Aryna Sabalenka (Semi-finals).

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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