What facilities are available at Stade Roland-Garros?
Three show courts, a botanical-garden court, and a museum inside the grounds
Stade Roland-Garros packs three show courts, more than a dozen outer courts, and a genuine museum into a compact site in the 16th arrondissement. What's less obvious from a broadcast feed is how each court has its own distinct character — this is the grounds-level guide to what's actually where.
Site facts
Address
2 Avenue Gordon Bennett, 75016 Paris, France
Court Philippe-Chatrier
15,225 seats, red clay since 1928, retractable roof since 2020
Court Suzanne-Lenglen
10,068 seats, built 1994, retractable roof since 2020
Court Simonne-Mathieu
5,000 seats, opened 2019, wrapped in working greenhouses in the Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil
Stadium Backstage Tour + Tenniseum Museum
Locker rooms, the players' tunnel, and a museum tracing tennis back before Roland-Garros existed
A tournament ticket gets you the tennis. This gets you the building — the parts built for the people who work here rather than the people watching them. There's a particular value in seeing a locker room or a players' tunnel stripped of the tension that fills it during a match: it's just architecture and function, and somehow that makes the tournament itself more legible afterward, not less interesting.
16th arrondissement / Porte d'Auteuil
Worth knowing
- —Book online in advance — tours are not sold on-site, so arriving without a pre-booked ticket means no tour that day, regardless of availability.
- —Multiple language options run throughout the week (French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Finnish, Swedish) — check the specific tour time's language before booking if a non-French/English tour matters to you, since not every slot runs every language.
How to book
Booking contacts and lead times for Pro subscribers.
UnlockOfficial grounds map
Credit: map-of-paris.com. Click the map to zoom in.
Court 14 — the loudest room on the grounds
Semi-sunken, 2,200 seats, inaugurated 2018, in the Fonds des Princes extension. French players actively want to be drawn here in the first week — the crowd is close, loud, and partisan in a way the bigger show courts rarely match. Outer-court seating is unreserved and first-come.
Watching outer-court tennis well
Check the daily order of play the evening before at rolandgarros.com — first-round matches at Courts 6, 7, 9, 12, and 13 regularly feature ranked professionals in front of crowds small enough to hear the players talking to themselves between points.
Food and facilities on-site
Concessions across the grounds
Bar des Mousquetaires, a main food court (croque-monsieur, galettes), and grocery-style stands near Suzanne-Lenglen, Court 6, and Fonds des Princes. See the full Where to Eat guide.
Le Jardin des Chefs
A chef-led culinary hub built into the Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil near Court Simonne-Mathieu — a 2026-specific initiative; confirm it recurs for 2027 closer to the tournament.
Sources: rolandgarros.com, stade.rolandgarros.com.