Current Affairs form a major segment under General Awareness section in most banking exams. For better preparation of your Current general awareness, we have started our series, which will help you stay updated with major recent happenings. In this article, we will discuss about French Open 2017.
French Open 2017
The second grand slam of the year, French Open 2017 concluded recently. This was the 116th edition of this tennis tournament. French Open 2017 was conducted from 28th May to 11th June 2017. This tournament took place at Stade Roland Garros Stadium, in Paris, France.
The event involved matches in Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles categories. Earlier the first grand slam of the year, Australian Open 2017 was conducted in January at Melbourne. You can go through our post for this. You can also go through the details of other grand slams there. Organised by International Tennis Federation (ITF), the second grand slam, French Open is a part of ATP World Tour 2017 and WTA Tour 2017 (under Grand Slam Category).
Founded in 1891, this tournament is conducted on Clay court. French Open carries a prize money of 36,000,000 Euros. French Open is alternatively known as Roland-Garros.
Winners of French Open 2017
Here is the list of Winners of 2017 French Open tournament in Seniors Category.
S.N. |
Category |
Winners |
Runner-Up |
| 1. | Men’s Singles | Rafael Nadal (Spain) | Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland) |
| 2. | Women’s Singles | Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia) | Simona Halep (Romania) |
| 3. | Men’s Doubles | Ryan Harrison (USA) & Michael Venus (New Zealand) | Santiago González (Mexico) & Donald Young (USA) |
| 4. | Women’s Doubles | Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) & Lucie Šafářová (Czech Republic) | Ashleigh Barty (Australia) & Casey Dellacqua (Australia) |
| 5. | Mixed Doubles | Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) & Rohan Bopanna (India) | Anna-Lena Grönefeld (Germany) & Robert Farah (Colombia) |
List of Winners in Juniors Category
S.N. |
Category |
Winners |
Runner-Up |
| 1. | Boy’s Singles | Alexei Popyrin (Australia) | Nicola Kuhn (Spain) |
| 2. | Girl’s Singles | Whitney Osuigwe (USA) | Claire Liu (USA) |
| 3. | Boy’s Doubles | Nicola Kuhn (Spain) & Zsombor Piros (Hungary) | Vasil Kirkov (USA) & Danny Thomas (USA) |
| 4. | Girl’s Doubles | Bianca Andreescu (Canada) & Carson Branstine (Canada) | Olesya Pervushina (Russia) & Anastasia Potapova (Russia) |
List of Wheelchair Category Winners
S.N. |
Category |
Winners |
Runner-Up |
| 1. | Wheelchair Men’s Singles | Alfie Hewett (UK) | Gustavo Fernández (Argentina) |
| 2. | Wheelchair Women’s Singles | Yui Kamiji (Japan) | Sabine Ellerbrock (Germany) |
| 3. | Wheelchair Men’s Doubles | Stéphane Houdet (France) & Nicolas Peifer (France) | Alfie Hewett (UK) & Gordon Reid (UK) |
| 4. | Wheelchair Women’s Doubles | Marjolein Buis (Netherlands) & Yui Kamiji (Japan) | Jiske Griffioen (Netherlands) & Aniek van Koot (Netherlands) |
Highlights of the Event
- The defending champions of last year’s French Open, Novak Djokovic and Garbine Muguruza were defeated in early rounds of the tournament.
- The reigning champions of this year’s Australian Open, Roger Federer and Serena Williams withdrew before tournament.
- The event will be succeeded by Wimbledon Championships 2017, the third grand slam of the year.
- This is Rafael Nadal’s 15th grand slam title.
- This is Jeļena Ostapenko’s first grand slam title and also her maiden WTA title.
- This is Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus’s first grand slam title.
- Rohan Bopanna is now the fourth Indian player to win a grand slam title.
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