2010 French Open

The 2010 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 114th edition of the French Open, 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 and Svetlana Kuznetsova were the defending champions. Federer lost to Robin Söderling in the quarterfinals, while Kuznetsova lost to Maria Kirilenko 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

Men's singles
🇪🇸 Rafael Nadal defeated 🇸🇪 Robin Söderling, 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, 7–5, 6–2

Women's doubles
🇺🇸 Serena Williams / 🇺🇸 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), [11–9]
 * Srebotnik and Zimonjić both won their fourth Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

Boys' singles
🇦🇷 Agustín Velotti defeated 🇺🇸 Andrea Collarini, 6–4, 7–5

Girls' singles
🇺🇦 Elina Svitolina 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.

Legends under 45 doubles
🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov / 🇺🇦 Andriy Medvedev defeated Goran Ivanišević / 🇩🇪 Michael Stich, 6–1, 6–1

Legends over 45 doubles
🇺🇸 John McEnroe / 🇪🇨 Andrés Gómez defeated 🇮🇷 Mansour Bahrami / 🇫🇷 Henri Leconte, 6–1, 6–1

Women's legends doubles
🇺🇸 Martina Navratilova / 🇨🇿 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, [10–8]
 * 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, [10–4]
 * 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

 * 1) 🇺🇸 Ryan Sweeting
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Carsten Ball
 * 3) 🇫🇷 David Guez
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Nicolas Mahut
 * 5) 🇫🇷 Gianni Mina
 * 6) 🇫🇷 Josselin Ouanna
 * 7) 🇫🇷 Laurent Recouderc
 * 8) 🇫🇷 Édouard Roger-Vasselin

Women's singles wildcard entries

 * 1) 🇺🇸 Christina McHale
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Jarmila Groth
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Claire Feuerstein
 * 5) 🇫🇷 Stéphanie Foretz
 * 6) 🇫🇷 Mathilde Johansson
 * 7) 🇫🇷 Kristina Mladenovic
 * 8) 🇫🇷 Olivia Sanchez

Men's doubles wildcard entries

 * 1) 🇫🇷 Thierry Ascione / 🇫🇷 Laurent Recouderc
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Nicolas Devilder / 🇫🇷 Paul-Henri Mathieu
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Jonathan Eysseric / 🇫🇷 Benoît Paire
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Richard Gasquet / 🇫🇷 Sébastien Grosjean
 * 5) 🇫🇷 Marc Gicquel / 🇫🇷 Édouard Roger-Vasselin
 * 6) 🇫🇷 Guillaume Rufin / 🇫🇷 Alexandre Sidorenko

Women's doubles wildcard entries

 * 1) 🇫🇷 Séverine Brémond Beltrame / 🇫🇷 Youlia Fedossova
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro / 🇫🇷 Pauline Parmentier
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Claire Feuerstein / 🇫🇷 Stéphanie Foretz
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Mathilde Johansson / 🇫🇷 Camille Pin
 * 5) 🇫🇷 Sophie Lefèvre / 🇫🇷 Aurélie Védy
 * 6) 🇫🇷 Kristina Mladenovic / 🇹🇳 Selima Sfar
 * 7) 🇫🇷 Irena Pavlovic / 🇫🇷 Laura Thorpe

Mixed doubles wildcard entries

 * 1) 🇫🇷 Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro / 🇫🇷 Thierry Ascione
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Julie Coin / 🇫🇷 Nicolas Mahut
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Mathilde Johansson / 🇫🇷 Sébastien de Chaunac
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Kristina Mladenovic / 🇫🇷 Alexandre Sidorenko
 * 5) 🇫🇷 Pauline Parmentier / 🇫🇷 Marc Gicquel
 * 6) 🇫🇷 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
 * 🇯🇵 Kei Nishikori
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Tursunov
 * 🇧🇪 Kristof Vliegen


 * Women's Singles
 * Katarina Srebotnik

Men's qualifiers entries

 * 1) 🇪🇸 Pablo Andújar
 * 2) 🇰🇿 Yuri Schukin
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Olivier Patience
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Jesse Witten
 * 5) 🇧🇷 Thiago Alves
 * 6) 🇮🇳 Somdev Devvarman
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Michael Yani
 * 8) 🇮🇹 Stefano Galvani
 * 9) 🇷🇺 Teymuraz Gabashvili
 * 10)  Jorge Aguilar
 * 11) 🇫🇷 Benoît Paire
 * 12) 🇦🇹 Martin Fischer
 * 13) 🇩🇪 Julian Reister
 * 14)  Grega Žemlja
 * 15) 🇮🇹 Simone Bolelli
 * 16) 🇩🇪 Tobias Kamke

The following players received the lucky loser spot:
 * 1) 🇪🇸 Santiago Ventura
 * 2) 🇩🇪 Dieter Kindlmann

Women's qualifiers entries

 * 1) 🇨🇦 Heidi El Tabakh
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Kurumi Nara
 * 3) 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Ivanova
 * 4) 🇦🇺 Sophie Ferguson
 * 5) 🇨🇳 Zhang Shuai
 * 6) 🇷🇺 Anastasia Pivovarova
 * 7) 🇷🇺 Ksenia Pervak
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Misaki Doi
 * 9) 🇷🇴 Simona Halep
 * 10) 🇪🇪 Kaia Kanepi
 * 11) 🇪🇸 Nuria Llagostera Vives
 * 12)  Chanelle Scheepers

The following player received the lucky loser spot:
 * 1) 🇺🇸 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 → replaced by 🇩🇪 Dieter Kindlmann
 * 🇪🇸 Carlos Moyá → replaced by 🇺🇸 Robby Ginepri
 * 🇦🇷 David Nalbandian → replaced by 🇺🇸 Taylor Dent
 * 🇫🇷 Gilles Simon → replaced by 🇷🇺 Igor Kunitsyn
 * 🇨🇿 Radek Štěpánek → replaced by Robin Haase


 * 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 → replaced by 🇺🇸 Bethanie Mattek-Sands
 * 🇵🇱 Urszula Radwańska → replaced by 🇬🇧 Katie O'Brien

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
 * 🇨🇦 Canada: TSN, RDS
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil: ESPN, ESPN Brasil
 * 🇺🇸 United States: NBC, ESPN2, Tennis Channel
 * Europe: Eurosport
 * 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, FST5
 * 🇩🇪 Germany: ARD, ZDF
 * 🇬🇷 Greece: ERT, ANT1, Mega Channel
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland: TG4
 * 🇲🇪 Montenegro: RTCG
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands: NOS
 * 🇷🇴 Romania: TVR
 * 🇷🇺 Russia: Eurosport, Russia 2
 * 🇷🇸 Serbia: RTS
 * 🇸🇮 Slovenia: RTV Slovenija
 * 🇪🇸 Spain: TVE
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden: SVT
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland: SRG-SSR
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey: TRT
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: BBC
 * 🇨🇳 People's Republic of China: CCTV
 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: Now Sports
 * 🇮🇳 India: ESPN STAR Sports
 * 🇯🇵 Japan: Wowow
 * 🇲🇴 Macao: TDM
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia: Astro
 * 🇲🇦 Morocco: SNRT
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand: Sky Sport
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand: TV7, True Sport
 * Sub-Saharan Africa: Supersport
 * Middle East and North Africa: Al Jazeera Sports
 * Latin America: ESPN Latin America
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines: Balls, Studio 23
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore: Starhub

Miscellaneous

 * Rafael Nadal'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 in 2009).
 * Part of the music video of the Martin Solveig song "Hello" was filmed at Roland Garros prior to the tournament starting.