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The Roland Garros 2026 draw is done for the year, so add the players for the hat yourself.
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How it's drawn
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How to run a Roland Garros sweepstake
- Add everyone taking part - type names, or paste a list straight from your group chat.
- Pull the draw. Each person gets a Roland Garros player at random - one each by default, or set your own rules.
- Share the link (or print it), then argue about who got the best player until the final.
Common questions
Is a French Open sweepstake different from a Roland Garros sweepstake?
Same tournament, two names - Roland Garros is the official name (after the Parisian stadium), French Open the common English one. The sweepstake works the same as any Slam, though the slow clay makes upsets by clay-court specialists more likely, which is excellent news for whoever draws an unheralded Spaniard.
How do seeds work in a Roland Garros sweepstake?
The Roland Garros 2026 draw is done for the year (Alexander Zverev and Mirra Andreeva took the 2026 titles), but you can still run a sweepstake by adding the players to the hat yourself. In a live Slam, all 128 load automatically and you can switch to Seeds only for the 32 seeds.
When should we run a Roland Garros sweepstake?
The tournament runs from late May into early June, with the draw made the Thursday before play starts. Set the sweep up in that window and the full 128-player field is already loaded here. Clay matches are long, so this is the Slam where your ticket gets maximum screen time per pound.
How do we handle the money in a French Open sweep?
Collect the stake before the draw - £1 to £5 a head is typical - and agree the split up front. Champion's ticket takes the pot is the classic; on clay, where finals can be one-sided, some groups pay out on games won in the final instead to keep it interesting.
How does everyone see the same Roland Garros draw?
The whole sweepstake is encoded in the share link - participants, players, result. Anyone who opens it sees the identical draw, nothing sits on a server, and the link still works when the trophy is lifted in Paris.
The clay
Roland Garros - the French Open to most of the English-speaking world - is played on crushed red brick in Paris across late May and early June, and the surface changes everything. Clay is slow: the ball sits up, rallies stretch past twenty strokes, and matches become wars of patience. It is the most physically brutal Slam, and the one where raw power counts for least.
That has two sweepstake consequences. First, clay-court specialists - often Spanish, South American or lower-seeded - regularly beat bigger names, so an unfancied ticket here is worth more than it looks. Second, the champion tends to come from a small pool of genuine clay experts, so whoever draws one of those should start planning what to do with the pot. The tournament is named after a French aviation pioneer, which is also a solid pub-quiz fact to deploy during the second week.
About the Roland Garros sweepstake
A Roland Garros (also known as the French Open) sweepstake is the classic office pool: everyone draws a Roland Garros tennis player at random, follows them through the tournament, and whoever ends up with the champion wins the pot. SlamSweep builds your Roland Garros 2026 sweepstake in seconds - free, with no sign-up - for both the Men's and Ladies' Singles draws.
Roland Garros, also known as the French Open, is the clay-court tennis Grand Slam, played in Paris across late May and early June. Its slow red clay produces the longest matches of the four majors.
At the 2026 tournament, Alexander Zverev won the Men's Singles, beating Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1 in the final, while Mirra Andreeva took the Ladies' Singles title with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Maja Chwalinska. If you ran a sweepstake, whoever drew Alexander Zverev or Mirra Andreeva is still dining out on it.
New to organising? Read our guides on running an office sweepstake and sweepstake rules and variations.