The 2010 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor
clay court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other construction aggregate, aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles ...
s. It was the 109th edition of the
French Open
The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ...
, and the second
Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the
Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 23 May through 6 June 2010.
Roger Federer
Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 ...
and
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born 27 June 1985) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles and world No. 3 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Kuznetsova won 18 singl ...
were the defending champions. Federer lost to
Robin Söderling
Robin Bo Carl Söderling (; born 14 August 1984) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in November 2010. Söderling won ten singles titles on th ...
in the quarterfinals, while Kuznetsova lost to
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko ( rus, Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко, p=mɐˈrʲijə kʲɪrʲɪˈlʲenkə, a=Ru-Maria_Kirilenko.ogg; born 25 January 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. A junior Grand Slam champio ...
in the third round.
The 2010 French Open also featured the return of four-time champion
Justine Henin, who retired immediately before the
2008 French Open, where she was the 3-time defending champion.
Singles players
Men's singles
Women's singles
Day-by-day summaries
Seniors
Men's singles
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ...
defeated
Robin Söderling
Robin Bo Carl Söderling (; born 14 August 1984) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in November 2010. Söderling won ten singles titles on th ...
, 6–4, 6–2, 6–4
*It was Nadal's 4th title of this year and the 40th of his career. It was his fifth win in six years at Roland Garros and his seventh Grand Slam men's singles victory.
*Nadal reclaimed the No. 1 ATP ranking with this victory.
*Nadal's victory also completed a historic 'Clay Slam' for Nadal, seeing him become the first person in history to win all
Masters 1000 tournaments on clay (Monte Carlo, Rome and Madrid), as well as the French Open, in the same calendar year.
*This was the second time Nadal had won the French Open without dropping a set.
Women's singles
Francesca Schiavone defeated
Samantha Stosur, 6–4, 7–6
(7–2)
*Both Schiavone and Stosur were first-time Grand Slam finalists.
*It was Schiavone's second title of the year, the fourth of her career, and her first major title.
Men's doubles
Daniel Nestor /
Nenad Zimonjić defeated
Lukáš Dlouhý /
Leander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes ( ; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian former professional tennis player and the first Asian man to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all-tim ...
, 7–5, 6–2
Women's doubles
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WT ...
/
Venus Williams defeated
Květa Peschke /
Katarina Srebotnik, 6–2, 6–3
* The Williams sisters won their 12th Grand Slam doubles title and 2nd at the French Open. With this, they hold all Grand Slam doubles titles simultaneously.
* Also, they have won the career women's doubles golden slam for the second time in their respective careers.
Mixed doubles
Katarina Srebotnik /
Nenad Zimonjić defeated
Yaroslava Shvedova /
Julian Knowle, 4–6, 7–6
(7–5),
1–9* Srebotnik and Zimonjić both won their fourth Grand Slam mixed doubles title.
Juniors
Boys' singles
Agustín Velotti defeated
Andrea Collarini, 6–4, 7–5
Girls' singles
Elina Svitolina
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina (, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles by the WTA rankings, WTA. Svitolina has won 18 WTA Tour single ...
defeated
Ons Jabeur, 6–2, 7–5
* Svitolina won her first Junior Grand Slam title.
Boys' doubles
Duilio Beretta /
Roberto Quiroz defeated
Facundo Argüello /
Agustín Velotti, 6–3, 6–2
* Beretta and Quiroz win their first junior Grand Slam title in doubles.
Girls' doubles
Tímea Babos /
Sloane Stephens defeated
Lara Arruabarrena /
María Teresa Torró Flor, 6–2, 6–3
* Babos and Stephens win their first junior Grand Slam title in doubles.
Other events
Legends under 45 doubles
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov ( rus, Евгений Александрович Кафельников, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈkafʲɪlʲnʲɪkəf, a=Ru-Yevgeny-Kafelnikov.ogg; born 18 February 1974) is a Russian former professional tennis p ...
/
Andriy Medvedev defeated
Goran Ivanišević /
Michael Stich, 6–1, 6–1
Legends over 45 doubles
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ...
/
Andrés Gómez
Andrés Gómez Santos (; born 27 February 1960) is an Ecuadorian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 4 in singles and world No. 1 in doubles. Gómez won 21 singles titles and 33 doubles titles during his caree ...
defeated
Mansour Bahrami /
Henri Leconte, 6–1, 6–1
Women's legends doubles
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (, ; ; born October18, 1956) is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, singles for 332 weeks (List of WTA number ...
/
Jana Novotná defeated
Iva Majoli /
Nathalie Tauziat, 6–4, 6–2
Wheelchair men's singles
Shingo Kunieda defeated
Stefan Olsson, 6–4, 6–0
* Kunieda won his tenth wheelchair Grand Slam singles title, and his fourth at the French Open.
Wheelchair women's singles
Esther Vergeer defeated
Sharon Walraven, 6–0, 6–0
* Vergeer won her 15th wheelchair Grand Slam singles title, and her fourth at the French Open.
Wheelchair men's doubles
Stéphane Houdet /
Shingo Kunieda defeated
Robin Ammerlaan /
Stefan Olsson, 6–0, 5–7,
0–8* Houdet wins his fourth wheelchair Grand Slam doubles title and the first at French Open, and Kunieda wins his ninth wheelchair Grand Slam doubles title and second at French.
Wheelchair women's doubles
Daniela Di Toro /
Aniek van Koot defeated
Esther Vergeer /
Sharon Walraven, 3–6, 6–3,
0–4* Di Toro and van Koot win their first wheelchair Grand Slam title in doubles.
Singles seeds
The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 17 May 2010. Rank and points before are as of 24 May 2010.
Men's singles
†The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2009. Accordingly, this was the 18th best result deducted instead.
The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.
Women's singles
†The player did not qualify the tournament in 2009. Accordingly, this was the 16th best result deducted instead.
The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.
Wildcard entries
Below are the lists of the
wildcard awardees entering in the main draws.
Men's singles wildcard entries
#
Ryan Sweeting
#
Carsten Ball
#
David Guez
#
Nicolas Mahut
#
Gianni Mina
#
Josselin Ouanna
#
Laurent Recouderc
#
Édouard Roger-Vasselin
Women's singles wildcard entries
#
Christina McHale
#
Jarmila Groth
#
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
#
Claire Feuerstein
#
Stéphanie Foretz
#
Mathilde Johansson
#
Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. Her best singles ranking is world No. 10.
She is a nine-time Grand Slam ...
#
Olivia Sanchez
Men's doubles wildcard entries
#
Thierry Ascione /
Laurent Recouderc
#
Nicolas Devilder /
Paul-Henri Mathieu
#
Jonathan Eysseric
Jonathan Eysseric (born 27 May 1990) is a French professional tennis player, who specializes in doubles and competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 72 achieved on 2 July 2018.
Tennis career Juniors
In 200 ...
/
Benoît Paire
#
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles ...
/
Sébastien Grosjean
Sébastien René Grosjean (; born 29 May 1978) is a French tennis coach and a former professional player. Grosjean reached the semifinals at the 2001 Australian and French Opens, and at Wimbledon in 2003 and 2004. He finished eight consecutive ...
#
Marc Gicquel /
Édouard Roger-Vasselin
#
Guillaume Rufin
Guillaume Rufin (; born 26 May 1990) is a French former professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is World No. 81, achieved in September 2013.
Career
2009
He received a wildcard into the 2009 French Open, his Association of Ten ...
/
Alexandre Sidorenko
Women's doubles wildcard entries
#
Séverine Brémond Beltrame /
Youlia Fedossova
Youlia Fedossova (born 1 July 1988) is a Russian-born French former professional tennis player.
In her career, Fedossova won four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 13 August 2007, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. ...
#
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro /
Pauline Parmentier
#
Claire Feuerstein /
Stéphanie Foretz
#
Mathilde Johansson /
Camille Pin
#
Sophie Lefèvre /
Aurélie Védy
#
Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. Her best singles ranking is world No. 10.
She is a nine-time Grand Slam ...
/
Selima Sfar
#
Irena Pavlovic /
Laura Thorpe
Mixed doubles wildcard entries
#
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro /
Thierry Ascione
#
Julie Coin
Julie Coin (; born 2 December 1982) is a retired French tennis player.
Coin recorded the biggest win of her career by defeating the then- world No. 1 ranked Ana Ivanovic at the 2008 US Open. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 60, ...
/
Nicolas Mahut
#
Mathilde Johansson /
Sébastien de Chaunac
#
Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. Her best singles ranking is world No. 10.
She is a nine-time Grand Slam ...
/
Alexandre Sidorenko
#
Pauline Parmentier /
Marc Gicquel
#
Aurélie Védy /
Michaël Llodra
Protected ranking
The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:
;Men's Singles
*
Robin Haase
Robin Haase (; born 6 April 1987) is a Dutch professional tennis player.
He reached his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 33 in July 2012 and his highest doubles ranking of world No. 29 in May 2023 ...
*
Kei Nishikori
*
Dmitry Tursunov
*
Kristof Vliegen
;Women's Singles
*
Katarina Srebotnik
Qualifiers entries
Men's qualifiers entries
#
Pablo Andújar
#
Yuri Schukin
#
Olivier Patience
Olivier Patience (; born 25 March 1980) is a former French professional tennis player. His career high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking was world no. 87, on 19 July 2004. During 2006, Patience won three ATP Challenger ...
#
Jesse Witten
#
Thiago Alves
#
Somdev Devvarman
#
Michael Yani
#
Stefano Galvani
#
Teymuraz Gabashvili
#
Jorge Aguilar
#
Benoît Paire
#
Martin Fischer
#
Julian Reister
#
Grega Žemlja
#
Simone Bolelli
#
Tobias Kamke
The following players received the lucky loser spot:
#
Santiago Ventura
#
Dieter Kindlmann
Women's qualifiers entries
#
Heidi El Tabakh
#
Kurumi Nara
#
Ekaterina Ivanova
#
Sophie Ferguson
#
Zhang Shuai
Zhang Shuai ( zh , s = 张帅 , p = Zhāng Shuài ; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 2, achieved in July 2022 and a singles ranking of No. 22 re ...
#
Anastasia Pivovarova
#
Ksenia Pervak
#
Misaki Doi
#
Simona Halep
#
Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi (; born 10 June 1985) is an Estonian inactive professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on 20 August 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour.
Described as a 'resident Grand Slam up ...
#
Nuria Llagostera Vives
#
Chanelle Scheepers
The following player received the lucky loser spot:
#
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Withdrawals
The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries or personal reasons.
;Men's Singles
*
Mario Ančić → replaced by
Santiago Ventura
*
Igor Andreev → replaced by
Kevin Anderson
*
James Blake → replaced by
Michał Przysiężny
*
Nikolay Davydenko → replaced by
Paolo Lorenzi
*
Juan Martín del Potro → replaced by
Daniel Gimeno Traver
*
Tommy Haas → replaced by
Ricardo Mello
*
Ivo Karlović → replaced by
Kei Nishikori
*
Florian Mayer
Florian Mayer (; born 5 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player.
Mayer reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in June 2011. Also in 2011, Mayer won his first ATP Tour title after four previous defeats in AT ...
→ replaced by
Dieter Kindlmann
*
Carlos Moyá → replaced by
Robby Ginepri
*
David Nalbandian → replaced by
Taylor Dent
*
Gilles Simon → replaced by
Igor Kunitsyn
*
Radek Štěpánek
Radek Štěpánek (; born 27 November 1978) is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 8 and best doubles ranking was world No. 4. Štěpánek's biggest achievements are reaching two Masters 1000 ...
→ replaced by
Robin Haase
Robin Haase (; born 6 April 1987) is a Dutch professional tennis player.
He reached his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 33 in July 2012 and his highest doubles ranking of world No. 29 in May 2023 ...
;Women's Singles
*
Kim Clijsters → replaced by
Stéphanie Dubois
*
Anna-Lena Grönefeld → replaced by
Ekaterina Bychkova
*
Sabine Lisicki → replaced by
Johanna Larsson
*
Sania Mirza → replaced by
Anne Keothavong
*
Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai (; ; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 doubles player by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA ...
→ replaced by
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
*
Urszula Radwańska
Urszula Radwańska (; born 7 December 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player.
Radwańska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2012, she reac ...
→ replaced by
Katie O'Brien
Point distribution
Prize money
All prize money is in Euros (€); doubles prize money is distributed per pair.
Men's and women's singles
* Winners: €1,120,000
* Runners-up: €560,000
* Semi-finalists: €280,000
* Quarter-finalists: €140,000
* Fourth round: €70,000
* Third round: €42,000
* Second round: €25,000
* First round: €15,000
Men's and women's doubles
* Winners: €320,000
* Runners-up: €160,000
* Semi-finalists: €80,000
* Quarter-finalists: €40,000
* Third round: €22,000
* Second round: €11,000
* First round: €7,500
Mixed doubles
* Winners: €100,000
* Runners-up: €50,000
* Semi-finalists: €25,000
* Quarter-finalists: €13,000
* Second round: €7,000
* First round: €3,500
Media coverage
* Australia:
Nine,
Fox Sports
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* Canada:
TSN,
RDS
* Brazil:
ESPN
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,
ESPN Brasil
* United States:
NBC,
ESPN2
ESPN2 is an American multinational pay television network owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which owns the remaining 20%).
ESPN2 was initially ...
,
Tennis Channel
* Europe:
Eurosport
Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie ...
**Domestic rights have also been sold to the following broadcasters, who may only cover the later rounds or not show any coverage at all, depending on the progress of domestic players:
** Austria:
ORF
** Belgium:
RTBF,
VRT
** Bosnia and Herzegovina:
BHRT
** Croatia:
HRT
** Cyprus:
CyBC
** Denmark:
TV2 Sport
** France:
France Télévisions, Orange Sport
** Finland:
MTV3
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,
FST5
** Germany:
ARD,
ZDF
** Greece:
ERT,
ANT1,
Mega Channel
** Ireland:
TG4
** Montenegro:
RTCG
** Netherlands:
NOS
** Romania:
TVR
** Russia:
Eurosport
Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie ...
,
Russia 2
** Serbia:
RTS
** Slovenia:
RTV Slovenija
** Spain:
TVE
** Sweden:
SVT
** Switzerland:
SRG-SSR
** Turkey:
TRT
** United Kingdom:
BBC
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* People's Republic of China:
CCTV
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* Hong Kong:
Now Sports
* India:
ESPN STAR Sports
* Japan:
Wowow
*
Macao
Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most densely populated region in the world.
Formerly a Portuguese colony, the ter ...
:
TDM
* Malaysia:
Astro
* Morocco:
SNRT
* New Zealand:
Sky Sport
* Thailand:
TV7,
True Sport
*
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the list of sovereign states and ...
:
Supersport
*
Middle East and North Africa:
Al Jazeera Sports
*Latin America:
ESPN Latin America
*
Philippines
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:
Balls,
Studio 23
* Singapore:
Starhub
Miscellaneous
*
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ...
's victory marked the fifth consecutive year that the No.2 seed won the tournament (Nadal in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010, and
Roger Federer
Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 ...
in 2009).
*Part of the music video of the
Martin Solveig song "
Hello" was filmed at Roland Garros prior to the tournament starting.
References
External links
Official website
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