At Roland Garros, three years in a row without French players in the second week

Tennis fans have been waiting for it since 2000 and Mary Pierce’s victory in the Roland Garros final. They will not see a French woman or a Frenchman win the Paris tennis tournament this year. The last men’s victory, Yannick Noah’s victory over Mats Wilander, dates back forty years, in 1983.

Defeating Arthur Rinderknecht on Thursday 1st evening^Eh June marked the end of hopes for the 2023 tricolor, with 28 French players in the tournament. The last Frenchman to reach the last 16 was Hugo Gaston in 2020; That year, Franco-Belgian Fiona Ferro reached the quarter-finals before being eliminated by American Sofia Kenin.

This graph shows the number of qualified tricolor representatives in the second week, that is, those who passed the third round and reached at least the last 16.

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On the men’s side, from the early 2000s to 2017, we often found one or more French players in the round of 16, or better. In 2008 and 2015, there were even five in the second week.

Overall, over fifty years, the French’s level of tennis has rarely gone beyond their round of 16, or even the quarterfinals. For women, this ceiling is more pronounced at the eighth, even if they have generally gone further than men in the last ten years.