Start Time and How to Watch Live Matches

The 2025 French Open, the second Major of the four Grand Slam tournaments in tennis, kicks off this weekend. If you plan to tune in, here’s everything you need to know to follow all the action from Roland-Garros, Paris, including match starting times, broadcast and tournament schedules.

The French Open is on the final day of qualifying rounds. French Open officials held the draw ceremony yesterday and although the complete order of play for Day 1 is still to be determined, the television and streaming schedules are set.

The French Open main draw begins Sunday, May 25, at Roland-Garros. First-round matches start at 5 a.m. EST.

Carlos Alcaraz is the defending champion in men’s singles. Iga Swiatek is the defending female champion. Alcaraz, seeded No. 2, has a tough draw. On the women’s side, Swiatek, who is seeded No. 5, also has a rough path ahead.

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Top-ranked and No. 1 seeds Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka have never won a French Open title, yet both are among the favorites to win at Roland-Garros. Of course, you can never write off Novak Djokovic, who is seeded No. 6 and won the French Open three times in the Rafael Nadal era. Nadal won the French Open 14 times.

TNT Sports will televise nearly 300 hours of live French Open action, including featured matches and in-studio programming, on TNT, truTV and Max.

Max will provide streaming coverage of all 900-plus matches, including a four-match multiview option. You’ll need a standard or premium plan with Max. Subscribers with plans with ads or through mobile phone contracts, will not be able to stream the matches.

A daily “The Rally at Roland-Garros” whip-around show, in the NFL Redzone style, will air on truTV. Meanwhile, TNT-Sports digital platforms Bleacher Report and House of Highlights will produce original, on-site content, including player interviews and clay-side correspondents.

Craig Barry, executive vice president and chief content officer at TNT Sports, said the goal is to engage viewers and put the tennis fan in the center of the action through multiple offerings on TNT, truTV and Max with a tennis dream team of iconic legends, coaches and recently retired players.

“People will have access to those conversations,” said Barry. “It’s like, wow, you get to listen to these people talk tennis and it’s like you’re in the living room with them. We are talking with the fan, and not at the fan.”

Coverage will also include extras like magazine-style segments with Venus Williams. “Venus Williams doesn’t really want to talk tennis, she just wants to talk culture around tennis,” said Barry. “Like what it means to be a tennis player in Paris during this time and so, you know, I think for us, it’s all about bringing a little bit more joy back to the game.”

What Time Does The French Open Start?

Qualifying rounds are underway. The first round of the main draw begins Sunday, May 25 at 5 a.m. Coverage continues through 5 pm. You can watch featured matches on TNT. All courts will be streamed on Max, including replays.

Many Europeans can watch the matches on Warners Bros. Discovery-owned Eurosport, which will have some overlapping commentary with TNT.

“They (Eurosport) have been covering it for the last 30 years. So we have the international rights too,” said Barry. “So we have this collective and we have all their international talent that we’ll be working with in one seamless talent pool. So we have this collective ecosystem and infrastructure.”

French audiences can watch on FranceTV Sport and PrimeVideo. Australian viewers can watch the French Open on World Wide of Sports and Stan.Sport. Canadians viewers can tune into RDS and TSN. ESPN will provide French Open coverage to Brazil and most of South America. The official French Open website provides a complete list of broadcasters worldwide.

French Open First Round: Who To Watch For?

Every year, the tennis Gods conjure up some first-round fireworks. The must-see first-round matches on the men’s side include Alcaraz versus 2014 U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori. Alexander Zverev, the No. 3 seed and 2024 French Open runner-up, takes on talented American teen Learner Tien, making his Roland-Garros main-draw debut.

Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, former world No. 6, faces a difficult first-round test against Italian Matteo Arnaldi, who is having a solid clay-court season and reached the quarterfinals at the Madrid Open. The No. 11 seed, Daniil Medvedev will play former British No. 1 Cameron Norrie. Medvedev and Norrie met in the first round in Rome, where the Russian won 6-4, 6-4.

On the women’s side, the must-see first-found matches include four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka facing the world No. 10 Paula Badosa. Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic faces 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina. Caroline Garcia, who recently announced her plans to retire, will play American Bernarda Pera in what is sure to be a sentimental match for the French crowd. In a blockbuster opener, 2021 French Open runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova faces 2024 Olympic Gold medalist Qinwen Zheng.

French Open: Second Week

The second week of the 2025 French Open is what tennis commentators often call the “business end of the tournament.” It includes round four, the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals.

Fourth-round matches are scheduled to air on Sunday, June 1, and Monday, June 2. Of course, any rain delays could throw the schedule into chaos. However, Round 4 matches from Court Philippe Chatrier will air on TNT, and Round 4 matches on Court Suzanne Lenglen will air on truTV. Max will continue streaming all courts from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The men’s and women’s singles quarterfinals are scheduled for Tuesday, June 3, and Wednesday, June 4, and will air on TNT and Max. Meanwhile, truTv will air doubles, mixed doubles and some quarterfinal matches.

On Thursday, June 5. TNT will broadcast the mixed doubles final at 6 a.m. The women’s singles semifinal will air on TNT 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The men’s doubles semifinals will be on truTV.

The men’s singles and women’s doubles semifinals will take place Friday, June 6.
The women’s singles final and men’s doubles final will air on Saturday, June 7, on TNT and truTV and will be live-streamed on Max.

On Sunday, June 8, the final day of the French Open, men’s singles final and women’s doubles final will air on TNT and truTV, and Max will continue streaming all courts.
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