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Roland Garros Stadium Tour

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On this guided tour of the Roland Garros stadium, you'll be able to take a look inside this iconic site where so many tennis champions have made history . Walk on the famous red clay courts !

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At the appointed time, we'll meet inside the Grande Boutique, Gate 36 of the Roland Garros stadium .

Nestled in the south of the Bois de Boulogne , Roland Garros hosts the third Grand Slam tennis tournament every year. World tennis stars gather in Paris to compete on the famous red clay court and win the coveted trophy. For an hour and a half, we'll take you inside this sports complex to explore its different rooms and areas.

On this exclusive guided tour of Roland Garros, we'll go  behind the scenes , taking a rare look into the press room , the changing rooms , and the central grandstand,  and pass through the corridor that leads the players to the main court .

While viewing the impressive stadium, your guide will offer many anecdotes about the famous foursome: The Four Musketeers. As we walk through the stadium, you'll discover all the secrets the majestic Philippe-Chatrier court has to share. 

Of course in a place that has witnessed so much action, the tour wouldn´t be complete without learning about more contemporary tennis greats, such as Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Steffi Graff, and, of course, Rafa Nadal  who have gone on to win this world-renowned tournament.

To complete the tour, we'll take a look at the impressive Philippe Chatrier court  that now seats 15,225 spectators as of a 2019 renovation.

Due to various works on the Roland Garros facilities , please note that:

From August 15 to November 4 , 2023 , it won't be possible to visit the Roland Garros press room .  From December 9 , 2023 , to April 1 , 2024 , it won't be possible to visit the Roland Garros dressing rooms .

On these dates, an alternative route will be made, which isn't adapted for people with reduced mobility .

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At the French Open Grounds, a Guided Tour of Change

A tennis writer has watched Roland Garros evolve and grow for 30 years, for better or worse.

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By Christopher Clarey

• June 12, 2021

PARIS — In my 30th year of covering the French Open, I am in need of a map.

The courts where I have watched so many matches on the crushed red brick of Roland Garros are almost all gone — demolished or remodeled beyond recognition, like the main Philippe Chatrier Court with its retractable roof. Passageways that led somewhere familiar now run into concrete walls or freshly painted gates or take you to new-age landscapes like the sculpture garden behind Chatrier with its rows of ocher deck chairs and its cruise ship vibe.

All four of the Grand Slam tournaments have been on a building spree, but Roland Garros at this stage is the major that seems the most transformed.

It is the one I know — or used to know — best. I covered it for the first time in 1991, the year Monica Seles defended her title and Jim Courier beat Andre Agassi in that distant time when all-American men’s finals were all the rage in Grand Slam tournaments. Most important for me, 1991 was the year I married Virginie, a Parisian, and moved to France from San Diego.

In the early years, we lived in a studio apartment a few blocks from Roland Garros’s back gate. That meant that for two precious weeks a year, a tennis writer could walk to work from home, and I sometimes shared the commute with French players, like Guillaume Raoux, who had the good fortune to play a Grand Slam tournament in their own neighborhood.

Roland Garros is technically in Paris, on the southwestern limits of the 16th Arrondissement. But in feeling, it is closer to village life. The vast Bois de Boulogne park is on one border. Low-rise, suburban Boulogne-Billancourt is on the other.

Even with the expansion into the nearby botanical gardens in 2019, Roland Garros’s footprint is still the smallest of the Grand Slam tournaments, but the expansion also has made it the most eye-catching of the majors.

You could already watch tennis in Paris with the shadows lengthening across the clay in the early evening, one of the most photogenic moments in sports. Now you can watch tennis in a greenhouse, too.

It is high time for a visit to the new Roland Garros, and in lieu of a map, I called in a tour guide: Gilles Jourdan, who was once a ball boy at the tournament but is now the silver-haired manager of the stadium’s modernization project.

Where’s the Bullring?

There was no better seat in tennis journalism than in Court 1. In the front row along the baseline, you were so close to the action that you sometimes had to lean back to avoid a player’s swing on a wide return.

Best of all was the venue: a 3,800-seat theater in the round known as the Bullring. It wasn’t the prettiest court in tennis, but it got something the architect, Jean Lovera, a former French junior champion, had not anticipated: acoustics that accentuated the strike of the ball. Courier used to love the unique thwack.

“The sound moves and resonates in a bit of a different way,” Lovera told me in 2010. “And as it turns out, I think it lends itself to generating emotions and making temperatures rise and getting reactions from both the players and the crowd that are stronger than usual.”

I can only concur, having once watched the Russian star Marat Safin drop his shorts midmatch to celebrate a drop-shot winner. But the Bullring and the sound effects are gone — demolished after the 2019 tournament to provide more space. The idea was to replace Court 1 with an open lawn, a flat French version of Wimbledon’s Aorangi Terrace, better known as Henman Hill. But there is not much open lawn this year. The void left by Court 1 has been filled by paving stones, new walkways, a coffee bar and other diversions.

The Musketeers are back

Roland Garros was built in a hurry in 1928 because of four men: Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon and René Lacoste, who was not yet a brand in those distant days. They were known as the mousquetaires (Alexandre Dumas’s novels were even bigger then), and in 1927, they won the Davis Cup in the United States against a team that included Bill Tilden. The Davis Cup, a team event, was as prestigious in those days as Grand Slam titles are today, and a new stadium was constructed in less than a year to accommodate France’s Davis Cup defense.

The Italian sculptor Vito Tongiani made bronze statues of the musketeers in the 1980s and the early 1990s. They were put on display at Roland Garros and then stored during renovations. But they are back this year in the new Musketeers Garden, sharing space during the tournament with the deck chairs and a big-screen television.

The last building

“It’s in bad shape,” Jourdan said, standing next to a large, half-timbered cottage with some cracked windows that sits on the northeastern boundary of the grounds.

It is largely out of view this year, used for catering supplies, but it deserves the spotlight. After all the demolition and renovation, it is the last building standing that was there in 1928, spared because of its links to the past even though sentimentality has not saved much else.

The cottage predates the stadium. It was the clubhouse for a private tennis club whose clay courts became part of the original Roland Garros. “Above all, during the musketeers’ years, they changed in there,” Jourdan said. “It was the locker room.”

It later became a gardeners’ shed and then a dormitory for young tennis prospects who were training at Roland Garros.

The most famous former occupant is Yannick Noah, who went on to win the French Open in 1983 and become a pop star. He remains one of the most popular figures in France.

Roland Garros preferred rugby and has his name on a tennis stadium only because his friends wanted to honor his memory; he was an aviator and a fighter pilot who died in combat in the final days of World War I. But the stadium also honors another figure who was not a tennis player: the French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey, who died in 1904 and whose experiments with “chronophotography” helped lay the foundations for modern cinema.

A research institute bearing his name, the Institut Marey, was opened on the current site of Roland Garros in 1903 and remained in place for 50 years after the stadium was built, allowing scientists, sometimes in white lab coats, to watch matches from the roof. But it was demolished to make way for Court 1’s construction in 1980, with the agreement that a monument to Marey would remain part of the stadium in perpetuity. The marble bas-relief monument, which contains some of Marey’s ashes, has moved around the grounds through the decades, but it is now in a prominent location in the new garden. “During the construction, Mr. Marey stayed in my office for two years,” Jourdan said with a chuckle, referring to Marey’s ashes. “I’m not sure the family would have approved, but he’s back where he belongs now.”

A grander entrance

The Bullring’s demise is a pity, but the loss that really hurts is the old Court 2. It was my favorite spot: a close-quarters drama magnet where coaches, off-duty players and members of the news media shared the same box, entering through a door that felt like the portal to a secret garden. I once interviewed Boris Becker on a changeover.

Built in 1928, it was a two-tiered court, so cozy it seemed that the fans on the upper tier were hovering over the players as they traded blows. But the expansion of the Chatrier Court left no room for Court 2, and its departure has made way for a new main entrance that allows the public to descend into Roland Garros down a wide flight of stone stairs.

Jourdan remembers the old entrance, which was nearby. “In those days, the center court had no reserved seating, so as soon as the gates opened it was a sprint for the best spots,” he said. “One year, it rained, so the stones were wet, and people went down in a heap when they ran around the corner. We weren’t laughing then, but we laughed later.”

There are no more morning sprints, and as you walk down the stairs, you cannot help but stop to gawk at another new statue: Rafael Nadal in larger-than-life stainless steel, following through on an airborne forehand. Nadal has, of course, turned Roland Garros into his personal playground, winning a record 13 singles titles. It is a measure of Nadal’s achievement that the first thing you see when you enter one of France’s great showplaces is a Spaniard.

We will see how the remodeled grounds work in 2022, but Roland Garros has long been oppressively overcrowded, like a rush-hour commuter train disguised as a Grand Slam tournament. For years, I would sneak away at lunchtime to the adjacent Serres d’Auteuil gardens with my ham-and-cheese baguette (and fondant au chocolat). It was a peaceful moment, although not a silent one. You could still hear the roars from the courts and the chair umpires calling the scores, which was handy in the days before the Roland Garros app.

Now, after a long legal battle, one section of the gardens is officially part of Roland Garros. You can walk on a charming cobblestoned thoroughfare flanked by lovely 19th-century buhrstone buildings before arriving at the world’s only show court in a greenhouse: a semi-sunken 10,000-seat stadium that opened in 2019. It is a world apart after a short walk and a stroke of genius if you ask me, even if a few of the exotic plants appear to be wilting under glass and even if my secret picnic spot is definitely no more.

Le shopping

Roland Garros has long had great loot, often too great on a sportswriter’s salary. The prices have not gone down, but the shopping has. A new and sprawling megastore has opened underground this year, and “megastore” sounds a lot better in French: La Grande Boutique.

The long walk (or ride)

It is nearly a kilometer now from one end of the grounds to the other. It is a trek, but the players can make it faster than the masses, because they can travel below ground in the system of tunnels that connects the main Chatrier Court with the hinterlands.

Players make part of the journey in golf carts to save their energy. We did it on foot with Jourdan, passing from tunnels to underground parking lots to walkways to a staircase that brought us back into the sunlight at Courts 15 and 16. These are the only fully dedicated practice courts left in Roland Garros, and I used to play here, too, but not on these courts and not on red clay.

This area was once a public tennis facility with asphalt hardcourts before the French Tennis Federation took possession, as it has inexorably taken possession of all the nearby property on the same wedge of land as Roland Garros. You can understand the urge when you look at the size of the U.S.T.A.’s Billie Jean King National Tennis Center or the plans for the next mammoth expansion of Wimbledon into the adjacent golf course. The competition among the Grand Slam tournaments is real, and one of the reasons the French Open stayed in Paris in 2012 instead of moving to bigger digs in Versailles was the promise of more land.

Something still familiar

Jourdan, it has to be said, is a great tour guide — witty, convivial and informative. I am no longer in need of a map, but nostalgia is tough to shake. So before heading back to the Chatrier Court with all its glass and steel, I made a final stop at Suzanne Lenglen Court, the second-biggest show court at Roland Garros. The court has been a fine place to watch tennis for nearly 30 years.

I saw Roger Federer make his Grand Slam debut on that court in 1999 against Patrick Rafter — and lose in a backward ball cap. Lots of memories there, so I walked up the stairs, turned left and took a seat. No matches were on this late in the second week. The net was down, and a big-screen television was in place, but it still felt reassuringly familiar, and so it will remain until the new retractable roof goes up in 2024, in time for the Paris Olympics.

I should have seen that coming.

Christopher Clarey has covered global sports for The Times and the International Herald Tribune for more than 25 years from bases in France, Spain and the United States. His specialties are tennis, soccer, the Olympic Games and sailing. More about Christopher Clarey

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Guided Backstage Tour of Roland-Garros Stadium

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Experience the legendary stadium of Roland Garros and delve into the history of tennis.

Discover the iconic Roland-Garros stadium exclusively on a guided tour of the legendary tennis temple in Paris.

During this unique guided tour, you'll access behind-the-scenes areas of the stadium, from the presidential box to the corridor that leads players to the clay court.

Embark on an exceptional journey in the footsteps of iconic Roland-Garros champions like Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, and of course, Rafael Nadal.

Your guide will share countless anecdotes, from the historic 'Four Musketeers' to contemporary champions, and unveil the secrets of the magnificent new Philippe-Chatrier Court, a marvel of technology and architecture.

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Roland Garros. Tennis titans. History. The world knows about the Roland Garros stadium where the clay-court grand slam is conducted yearly in June, but how many of them can experience this magnificent stage of tennis history? You can do this now! With this tour, discover the Roland Garros stadium exclusively and learn about the legendary temple of tennis with the help of your guide. As a truly privileged guest, walk in the footsteps of the legends of tennis such as Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, and of course the King of Clay, Rafael Nadal.

Be overwhelmed with emotion as you walk down the corridor to enter the court just as the greatest trophy winners of Roland Garros. During the tour, explore the technological and architectural gem of the stadium, the Philippe-Chatrier court named after the president of the FFT. Hear countless anecdotes from your guide as they reveal secrets about the court and how architecturally sound the court has been made in order for the players to play to their best potential in any condition. Marvel at the breathtaking view and the legendary court as well as the Suzanne-Lenglen court and the magnificent Paris backdrop.

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Corentin Moutet, 99e mondial, est le seul des sept Français engagés en qualifications à s'être hissé, dimanche, dans le tableau principal du Masters 1000 de Monte-Carlo.

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María Lourdes Carlé festejó un título importante en España y prepara la valija para Roland Garros

La jugadora surgida en daireaux, de 24 años, se consagró en españa y se afirmó en el top 100 de la wta.

Acostumbrada desde pequeña a las largas giras por el exterior, incluso radicada durante un largo tiempo en los Estados Unidos, María Lourdes Carlé empieza a saborear los frutos de varias temporadas de esfuerzo y sacrificios. La jugadora nacida en Daireaux, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, obtuvo el domingo el título de la categoría WTA 125, el más importante de su carrera hasta aquí, al derrotar en la final del torneo La Bisbal D’Empordá a la española Rebeka Masarova por 3-6, 6-1 y 6-2.

La victoria en España le permitió a Carlé, de 24 años, escalar 14 posiciones y alcanzar este lunes el mejor ranking de su carrera : desde hoy, ocupa el puesto 84° de la clasificación semanal del WTA Tour. En términos concretos, hay un premio extra: en poco más de un mes y medio, podrá jugar en el cuadro principal de Roland Garros por primera vez en su carrera, con el ingreso asegurado por ranking. Así, después de 15 años, habrá dos argentinas en el main draw del Grand Slam parisino, desde que en 2009 jugaron Gisela Dulko y María Emilia Salerni.

En todo caso, el título sobre el polvo de ladrillo español llegó como corolario de varios resultados interesantes en esta temporada, ya que había llegado a las semifinales en el WTA 125 de Puerto Vallarta, y conquistado un ITF 75 en Vero Beach, en Florida; el año pasado alcanzó la final del Argentina Open en Buenos Aires, pero cayó ante la brasileña Laura Pigossi en el duelo decisivo. Ahora, se dio un gusto que le permite ajustar el calendario y apuntar a pruebas más desafiantes.

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“Estoy muy feliz por esta semana. Con mi equipo hemos trabajado mucho para llegar a estas instancias. Estar en el Top 100 me pone muy contento, pero queda mucho trabajo por delante, muchas cosas por vivir. Estoy bastante tranquila y quiero seguir por ese camino”, destacó Carlé, que es entrenada por Matías Cáceres y en su momento también contó con la colaboración de Franco Davin desde Miami.

El próximo paso para Carlé será la incorporación al equipo argentino que jugará la Zona Americana 1 de la Billie Jean King Cup, el certamen de formato similar a la Copa Davis entre las mujeres, y que en los próximos días se jugará en Bogotá. La flamante 84ª del mundo se sumará a las otras convocadas por la capitana Mercedes Paz: Julia Riera, Martina Capurro Taborda, Julieta Estable y Luisina Giovannini.

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El de Carlé no fue el único ascenso de la semana para el tenis argentino, ya que, entre los varones, hubo un ingreso en el Top 100 : Thiago Agustín Tirante subió 17 posiciones, desde el 108° al 91°, luego de consagrarse campeón en el Challenger de México, jugado en el Distrito Federal, al vencer en la final al canadiense Alexis Galarneau por 6-1 y 6-3. Fue el cuarto título en esta categoría del tour para el jugador surgido en La Plata, de 22 años.

Con pasado como número 1 del circuito junior, quedó cerca de entrar de manera directa a Roland Garros. “Hablé con mi equipo y dijimos que si termino este año alrededor del puesto 70, será una buena clasificación. Seguiré jugando en el nivel más alto que pueda, y tratar de mejorar mi juego día a día y luego llegará el ranking”, expresó Tirante a la ATP. El jugador platense es entrenado por Javier Nalbandian, y esta semana tiene previsto continuar la gira por México en el Challenger que se juega en Morelos.

Otro ascenso destacado fue el de Mariano Navone . El jugador de 9 de Julio alcanzó el puesto 51°, el mejor de su carrera y con una mejora de nueve escalones respecto de la semana pasada, luego de alcanzar las semifinales en el ATP 250 de Marrakech, en Marruecos, donde logró un valioso triunfo sobre su ídolo, Stan Wawrinka, en la segunda ronda, y dio batalla antes de caer en tres parciales frente al italiano Matteo Berrettini, con pasado de Top 10 y que se adueñó del título en el certamen africano.

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WTA / ATP : Collins grimpe encore, Berrettini retrouve le sourire

Belles histoires et retour gagnant pour les premiers tournois de la saison sur terre battue.

Voie dégagée pour certains ou route plus escarpée pour d’autres , le passage à l’ocre a d’ores et déjà livré un premier lot de surprises et de réjouissances aux fans venus en nombre aux abords des courts du monde entier. Pendant que les stars de l’ATP peaufinaient leur préparation sur les courts de Monte-Carlo, Danielle Collins, Matteo Berrettini, Hubert Hurkacz, Ben Shelton ou encore Camila Osorio ont été couronnés de lauriers.

Collins, une dernière ascension inattendue

Pour le plus grand bonheur de ses très nombreux supporters, Danielle Collins est redevenue "Danimal". Deux mois après l’annonce de sa retraite en fin de saison pour raisons médicales (elle souffre de polyarthrite rhumatoïde et d’endométriose) et une semaine seulement après avoir soulevé son plus beau trophée au WTA 1000 de Miami , elle s’est adjugée le WTA 500 de Charleston ! Un back-to-back inédit depuis celui de Serena Williams en 2013.

Uniquement mise en difficulté par la tenante du titre Ons Jabeur , elle a brutalement écarté Paula Badosa, Sloane Stephens, Elise Mertens et Maria Sakkari de son chemin victorieux. Un parcours impressionnant et sublimé ce dimanche par un 13e succès consécutif (sa meilleure série en carrière) et on ne peut plus expéditif face à Daria Kasatkina (6/2, 6/1 en 1h17).

Ultra-agressive et en réussite, celle qui réintègre le Top 15 ce lundi (elle était 71e mondiale début février) ne boude pas son plaisir. " Le fait de pouvoir me battre physiquement et de repousser mes limites, ça me donne énormément de confiance , a-t-elle confirmé en conférence de presse. Je suis très heureuse de jouer à ce niveau, et pouvoir le faire deux semaines de suite, c'est fantastique ! "

Plus que jamais en lice pour disputer les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 sur la terre battue du stade Roland-Garros, la Floridienne coche ses objectifs de fin de carrière les uns après les autres et ne reviendra pas sur sa décision, libératrice et définitive. " C’est super, j’ai pris la meilleure décision possible pour moi , a-t-elle de nouveau insisté. Je suis très heureuse d’avoir pu montrer mon meilleur tennis lors des deux derniers tournois parce que c’est comme ça que je veux arrêter. Je sais que tout le monde a une façon différente de prendre sa retraite et de terminer sa carrière, mais moi, je veux essayer de partir en jouant mon meilleur tennis. "

Désormais à égalité de victoires cette année avec Iga Swiatek et Elena Rybakina (22), Danielle Collins poursuivra-t-elle sa folle success story sur le Vieux Continent ? Réponse du côté de Madrid (23 avril - 5 mai) après une période de repos plus que méritée, .  

Berrettini, le come-back idéal

Du plaisir et des sourires, il y en a aussi eu à Marrakech ce week-end. Mis K.O par de nombreuses blessures et privé de victoires sur le circuit principal depuis l’US Open 2023, Matteo Berrettini a signé un retour fracassant en glanant son premier titre depuis le Queen’s en juin 2022. Vainqueur sans trembler d’Alexander Shevchenko, de son compatriote Lorenzo Sonego ou encore de Roberto Carballes Baena en finale (7/5, 6/2 en 1h46), le finaliste de Wimbledon 2021 a fait étalage de sa puissance et de sa précision légendaires mais aussi de sa résistance physique en disputant deux rencontres en trois sets (contre Jaume Munar et Mariano Navone).

" Je tiens à remercier les membres de mon équipe, a-t-il déclaré à l’issue du tournoi . Ces dernières années ont été difficiles mais grâce à eux, j’ai pu surmonter ces moments compliqués. Mon corps ne me permettait pas de jouer et c’est grâce à eux que je suis là. Je tiens également à remercier toutes les personnes qui ont rendu mon retour possible. Tous mes amis, ma famille, tous ceux qui m'ont soutenu lorsque j'étais triste et blessé et que je ne pensais pas pouvoir m'en sortir. "

Un sacre en ATP 250 idéal pour booster la confiance de l’Italien au coup droit de feu, qui progresse également de 51 rangs dans la hiérarchie (il est 84e mondial ce lundi). De très bon augure avant d’affronter le Serbe Miomir Kecmanovic au premier tour du Masters 1000 de Monte-Carlo, où il bénéficie d’une wild-card.

Hurkacz et Shelton, une première sur terre

Hubert Hurkacz doit un dîner à Casper Ruud ! Après s’être entraîné avec le double finaliste de Roland-Garros , le Polonais a soulevé son huitième trophée en carrière à Estoril, le tout premier sur terre battue. Tombeur de spécialistes de la surface comme Cristian Garin et Pedro Martinez en finale (6/3, 6/4 en 1h26), il n’a pas caché sa satisfaction d’avoir enfin réussi à adapter son jeu à ces conditions si particulières. " Je suis très heureux de ma performance aujourd’hui , a-t-il confié. Je suis fier d’avoir réussi à bien servir, ça m’a beaucoup aidé. Pedro est un grand compétiteur qui avait livré une incroyable bataille hier soir (contre Casper Ruud, justement). J'avais besoin de jouer un très bon tennis pour rivaliser avec lui et heureusement j'y suis parvenu. "

Tête de série n°10 en Principauté, "Hubi" aura l’occasion de confirmer ses bonnes dispositions dès ce mardi au premier tour contre Jack Draper.

Au rayon des belles premières, on notera également le sacre de Ben Shelton au tournoi ATP 250 de Houston. Le prodige américain, vainqueur du tenant du titre Frances Tiafoe au terme d’une finale plaisante et indécise (7/5, 4/6, 6/3 en 2h16), restait pourtant sur cinq défaites de rang sur terre battue. Plus jeune joueur (21 ans) glorifié au Texas depuis son illustre compatriote Andy Roddick en 2002, le désormais 14e mondial espère sans doute faire des étincelles lors de la tournée européenne qui démarrera pour lui la semaine prochaine.

Osorio double la mise

Tout comme Danielle Collins et Ben Shelton, auréolés à domicile, Camila Osorio a brillé au WTA 250 de Bogota, un tournoi qu’elle avait déjà remporté en 2021. Pour la première fois de l’année, la Colombienne est parvenue à enchaîner les victoires, s’imposant notamment contre la tenante du titre Tatjana Maria en quarts ou encore face à la tête de série n°1 Marie Bouzkova en finale (6/3, 7/6(5) en 1h55). Portée par un public acquis à sa cause, la joueuse de 22 ans a pleinement profité de son tournoi et s’est dite soulagée de mettre fin à une période compliquée de sa jeune carrière. " J’ai eu beaucoup de difficultés ces dernières années, à cause des blessures et autres , a-t-elle expliqué au podcast WTA Insider. Remporter ce deuxième titre est un sentiment incroyable pour moi et un soulagement aussi. Je sais que je dois continuer à travailler dur. "

Gravé dans le Rocher

Alors que les stars de la WTA marquent une pause avant de se rendre à Stuttgart (WTA 500) et Rouen (WTA 250) à partir du 15 avril, tous les regards sont désormais tournés vers le Monte-Carlo Country Club, où se déroule le troisième Masters 1000 de l’année. Un tournoi démarré tambour battant ce week-end, avec la victoire du demi-finaliste sortant Lorenzo Musetti contre Taylor Fritz ou bien l’incroyable remontada de Jan-Lennard Struff face au spécialiste Sebastian Baez (1/6, 7/6(3), 6/2 alors que l’Allemand était mené 5-2 dans la deuxième manche).

Du côté des ténors, Novak Djokovic a été placé dans la même partie de tableau que Carlos Alcaraz et pourrait retrouver le tenant du titre Andrey Rublev en quarts de finale. A l’opposé, l’homme à battre Jannik Sinner débutera contre Sebastian Korda ou Alejandro Davidovich Fokina et pourrait croiser Holger Rune en quarts et Daniil Medvedev ou Alexander Zverev dans le dernier carré.

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