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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,
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* Canada: TSN, RDS * Brazil:
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, ESPN Brasil * United States: NBC,
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, Tennis Channel * Europe:
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**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:
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, FST5 ** Germany: ARD, ZDF ** Greece: ERT, ANT1, Mega Channel ** Ireland: TG4 ** Montenegro: RTCG ** Netherlands: NOS ** Romania: TVR ** Russia:
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, Russia 2 ** Serbia: RTS ** Slovenia: RTV Slovenija ** Spain: TVE ** Sweden: SVT ** Switzerland: SRG-SSR ** Turkey: TRT ** United Kingdom:
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* People's Republic of China:
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* Hong Kong: Now Sports * India: ESPN STAR Sports * Japan: Wowow *
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: TDM * Malaysia: Astro * Morocco: SNRT * New Zealand: Sky Sport * Thailand: TV7, True Sport *
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: Supersport * Middle East and North Africa: Al Jazeera Sports *Latin America: ESPN Latin America *
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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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