French Open 2022

  • 06 Jun 2022

The 2022 French Open, season’s second Grand Slam tennis tournament after Australian Open was played on outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 22 May to 5 June 2022.

Major Titles

Men’s Singles

  • Spain's Rafael Nadal beat Norway's Casper Ruud in the men's singles final.
  • It was his 14th championship at Roland Garros and 22nd Grand Slam title overall.
  • Nadal’s victory came two days after his 36th birthday and made him the oldest title winner in the history of the clay-court tournament.
  • The Spaniard’s first triumph in Paris came in 2005 at age 19. No man or woman ever has won the singles trophy at any major event more than his 14 in Paris. And no man has won more Grand Slam titles than Nadal.

Women’s Singles

  • Top-ranked Iga Swiatek (Poland) beat Coco Gauff (America) to win her second French Open title.
  • Iga Swiatek now has 35 wins in a row, the joint-longest winning streak by a women's player in the 21st century along with Venus Williams, who had achieved the feat in 2000.