Overview
- Organisers announced Thursday, April 16th a 9.5% prize-money jump to €61.7 million with larger increases for qualifying and early rounds, yet the total still trails recent US and Australian Open purses.
- Singles champions will earn €2.8 million, runners-up €1.4 million, semifinalists €750,000, and first-round losers €87,000, with qualifying prize money up about 13% year over year.
- For the first time, players may wear approved performance-tracking devices on court in a trial designed to give them physical data, following earlier bans that drew complaints in Melbourne.
- Tournament leaders pledged camera-free private areas for athletes after objections to all-access filming, saying player spaces will carry a strict “no cam access” rule.
- Roland-Garros will keep human line judges and add light presentation tweaks, including a short opening ceremony before both finals, moving the men’s doubles final to before the women’s singles final, and tributes to Gaël Monfils and Stan Wawrinka.