French Open 2027

Roland-Garros has been playing on the same red clay since 1928, and that surface changes everything about the tennis you're watching — higher bounces, longer rallies, a match that can run three and a half hours in the tournament's second week. Court Philippe-Chatrier still carries the name of the man who spent the 1970s and 80s fighting to get tennis back into the Olympics, and its 2020 rebuild added a retractable roof that turned this into the newest experience a 99-year-old tournament has ever created.

This isn't a tournament you can see all of from one seat. Grounds Pass holders can watch a top-10 player warm up ten feet away on a practice court before the crowds arrive, Court 14's semi-sunken bowl turns into the loudest room at the venue whenever a French player is drawn there, and the greenhouse-wrapped Court Simonne-Mathieu sits built directly into a working botanical garden. Add a city built around it — Auteuil's hidden Art Nouveau villas, Montmartre's hilltop views, a jazz cellar that's run every night since 1949 — and the tournament is only half the trip.

Everything you need to plan the trip: costs, tickets, where to stay, where to eat, and the detail that only matters once you're actually going.