Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) Summer of Sport hots up as the greatest tennis players on earth come together at the world’s most iconic clay court venue for the first of two titanic tournaments at Stade Roland-Garros in three months.

Completely comprehensive clay court coverage will be offered to tennis fans enjoying Roland-Garros exclusively in Europe (excluding France)** via WBD’s channels and platforms from 20 May to 9 June. Every point from the men’s and women’s singles, doubles, juniors, wheelchair and legends matches will be available to stream ad-free on Max for the first time in selected markets and discovery+. Wall-to-wall television coverage featuring the biggest matches and the best local heroes will also be available in 19 languages on Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 across Europe with a live show commencing 30-minutes before play each day from the main draw stage on Sunday 26 May. 

Bringing the game to the broadest audience, free-to-air coverage of a selection of matches*** will once again be provided through WBD’s channels in Denmark (6’eren), Finland (TV5); Germany (Eurosport 1), Norway (Rex), Poland (TVN), Sweden (Kanal 9), Spain (DMAX) and Turkey (DMAX).  

The action from the year’s second Grand Slam precedes The Championships, Wimbledon (1-14 July), where WBD screens the action in 11 markets**** plus live singles finals coverage in the UK and Ireland, before Roland-Garros returns to host the Olympic Games Paris 2024 from 27 July. In all of its territories, WBD’s channels and platforms will be the only place to watch every moment of the action, reaffirming its role as the Home of Tennis, offering fans more than 1,600 hours of multi-market coverage throughout the year.  

Scott Young, Group SVP Content, Production and Business Operations, at WBD Sports Europe, said: “Roland-Garros is the pinnacle of the clay court season and the jewel in the crown of our summer of tennis across Europe. The tournament this year looks set to be one of the most open in years and we’re looking forward to covering every point from every court, from the first round of qualifying to the finals at Court Philippe Chatrier, while calling on the expertise of some of the sport’s greatest ever champions both on-site and in our local studios to take viewers closer to the action.  

“We’re particularly excited to bring Grand Slam tennis to Max for the first time with streaming also available across discovery+ and curated television coverage on Eurosport for viewers across Europe to enjoy. And with the Olympics soon returning to Europe and the world’s best players back at Roland-Garros in their quest for medals in just two months, there is no greater live sports proposition to be found anywhere this summer.” 

LEGENDS OF THE GAME RETURN TO ROLAND-GARROS 

Producing coverage from on-site and at local market studios, including the award-winning mixed reality Cube studio in London, Eurosport’s astonishing array of tennis experts will further elevate its coverage by delivering daily analysis, insights and opinions from the sport’s most trusted voices. 

For 2024, Eurosport’s international tennis line-up presenting coverage on-site features Grand Slam champions and finalists including Chris Evert, John McEnroe, Mats Wilander, Alex Corretja, Mischa Zverev, Alize Lim and Laura Robson with Barbara Schett and Tim Henman leading its Cube studio coverage before heading over to Paris from the semi-final stage for a full on-site production. They form a Grand Slam line-up supported by local market studio experts including Boris Becker, Barbara Rittner and Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany), Carla Suárez Navarro, Nicolás Almagro and Anabel Medina-Garrigues (Spain) and Roberta Vinci (Italy).  

TELLING THE STORIES BEYOND THE COURT 

Viewers can get their fix of tennis content throughout the tournament as fan-favourite formats return alongside new features. This includes a 45-minute documentary dedicated to the ‘King of Clay’ Rafael Nadal; Legend’s Voice - the first-person editorial feature on Eurosport.com featuring some of the sport’s greatest players; as well as features where players share their insights with Eurosport viewers such as My Playlist and My Social Network. Eurosport tennis expert Laura Robson will also present a new eight-episode miniseries, An Olympian in Paris, exploring the iconic sites set to host the Olympic Games Paris 2024 this summer.

For the third consecutive year, Eurosport will also partner with Renault to bring sponsored digital editorial content to viewers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK via Eurosport.com and its social media platforms. Five short-form episodes will feature Renault Tennis Ambassadors Casper Ruud, Félix Auger-Aliassime and Diane Parry meeting three-time Roland-Garros singles champion Mats Wilander to explore the revolution in tennis focussing on different aspects of the sport and comparing these with the synergies between the design, speed, sound, precision and energy found in Renault’s R5 model.  

Warner Bros. Discovery’s coverage of the main draw of Roland-Garros begins on Sunday 26 May from 10:30 CEST. The women’s singles final will be broadcast from 14:30 CEST on Saturday 8 June and the men’s final from the same time on Sunday 9 June.  

Roland-Garros will host a record 11 night sessions this year and the tournament could see the end of an era with record 14-time men’s singles champion Rafael Nadal expected to compete for the final time. The 2023 winner Novak Djokovic is looking to hold off the younger challengers Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek is targeting her fourth women’s singles title in the past five years.  

Taken together, WBD’s Summer of Sport includes 5,000 live hours of coverage across all platforms including uninterrupted streaming coverage of the biggest events in sport including Olympic Games Paris 2024; every Grand Tour; Roland-Garros, Wimbledon**** and US Open tennis; the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series; the FIM Speedway GP and 24 Hours of Le Mans. In the UK and Ireland, TNT Sports will broadcast every UEFA club competition final as well as the climax of the Premier League and Premiership Rugby seasons. 

Roland-Garros 2024 key dates: 

• Monday 20 May – qualifiers begin 
• Sunday 26 May – main draw begins 
• From Tuesday 4 June – singles quarter-finals 
• Thursday 6 June – mixed doubles final 
• Thursday 6 June – women’s singles semi-finals 
• Friday 7 June – men’s singles semi-finals 
• Saturday 8 June – women’s singles; men’s doubles; wheelchair; junior singles and doubles finals 
• Sunday 9 June – men’s singles; women’s doubles finals 

*From May 21, Max will become available across the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe. From 11 June Max will launch in France and Poland with HBO Max launching in Belgium and the Netherlands. 

discovery+ will stream Roland-Garros and the Olympics in the UK, Italy and Germany.  

**Warner Bros. Discovery is the exclusive rights holder for Roland-Garros in Europe excluding France. Sub-license agreements are in place in Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. 

4K coverage in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK. Live local windows in the Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and the UK.  

*** WBD’s channels in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Finland and Turkey will have FTA coverage of eight matches including the singles finals; Germany will have FTA coverage of every round; Spain will have FTA coverage from the semi-finals stage; Poland will have FTA coverage on TVN if Iga Swiatek reaches the final.   

****WBD has the exclusive rights to Wimbledon in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden as well as the singles finals non-exclusively in the UK and Ireland.