2021 French Open

The beginning of the tournament returned to its traditional late-May schedule after the previous edition being delayed to September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 8 April, the originally-announced dates were postponed by one week by the French Tennis Federation due to a third national lockdown and curfew in France enacted the week prior, with the first day of qualifiers pushed back to 24 May, and first day of the tournament proper pushed back to 30 May. The postponement was made in the hope that restrictions would be eased in time for the tournament, including potentially allowing spectators.^[7]

At the start of the tournament, the main courts were capped at 1,000 spectators, and spectators were prohibited after 21:00 nightly due to the nationwide curfew. This caused night session matches to be held behind closed doors. Beginning 9 June, the curfew was moved to 23:00, and centre court was permitted to expand to 5,000 spectators.^[8] During the 11 June semi-final match between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, Prime Minister Jean Castex personally phoned the organizers after a 93-minute third-set tiebreak set to issue an exemption, allowing the match to be played to its conclusion with spectators.^[9]

Men's singles

Women's singles

•   Novak Djokovic def.   Stefanos Tsitsipas 6–7^(6–8), 2–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–4

•   Barbora Krejčíková def.   Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6–1, 2–6, 6–4

•   Pierre-Hugues Herbert /   Nicolas Mahut def.   Alexander Bublik /   Andrey Golubev 4–6, 7–6^(7–1), 6–4

•   Barbora Krejčíková /   Kateřina Siniaková def.   Bethanie Mattek-Sands /   Iga Świątek 6–4, 6–2

•   Desirae Krawczyk /   Joe Salisbury def.   Elena Vesnina /   Aslan Karatsev, 2–6, 6–4, [10–5]

•   Alfie Hewett def.   Shingo Kunieda, 6–3, 6–4

•   Diede de Groot def.   Yui Kamiji, 6–4, 6–3

•   Dylan Alcott def.   Sam Schröder, 6–4, 6–2

•   Alfie Hewett /   Gordon Reid def.   Stéphane Houdet /   Nicolas Peifer, 6–3, 6–0

•   Diede de Groot /   Aniek van Koot def.   Yui Kamiji /   Jordanne Whiley, 6–3, 6–4

•   Andy Lapthorne /   David Wagner def.   Dylan Alcott /   Sam Schröder, 7–6^(7–1), 4–6, [10–7]

•   Luca Van Assche def.   Arthur Fils, 6–4, 6–2

•   Linda Nosková def.   Erika Andreeva, 7–6^(7–3), 6–3

•   Arthur Fils /   Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard def.   Martin Katz /   German Samofalov, 7–5, 6–2

•   Alex Eala /   Oksana Selekhmeteva def.   Maria Bondarenko /   Amarissa Kiara Tóth, 6–0, 7–5

As a Grand Slam tournament, the points for the French Open are the highest of all ATP and WTA tournaments.^[10] These points determine the world ATP and WTA rankings for men's and women's competition, respectively. In both singles and doubles, women received slightly higher point totals compared to their male counterparts at each round of the tournament, except for the first and last.^[10][11] Points and rankings for the wheelchair events fall under the jurisdiction of the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour, which also places Grand Slams as the highest classification.^[12]

The ATP and WTA rankings were both altered in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[13] Both rankings were frozen on 16 March 2020 upon the suspension of both tours, and as a result the traditional 52-week ranking system was extended to cover the period from March 2019 to March 2021 with a player's best 18 results in that time period factoring into their point totals.

For the ATP, In March 2021, the ATP extended the "best of" logic to their rankings through to the week of 9 August 2021.

• Players who have played the same Tour-level event more than once, adopt a "best of" and can count their highest points total from the same tournament,
• Results from the rescheduled 2020 event will also be included for an additional 52 weeks at 50%.^[14]

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

About a month before the tournament began, the prize money pool was announced to be €34,367,215, a reduction of 10.53% compared to the prize pool for 2020 edition.^[15][16]

*per team

• Roland Garros