Saturday, May 11

Coaching From Box to Be Tested at Roland Garros

Players can tune into the voice field at Roland Garros.

The clay-court Grand Slam introduced a collection of adjustments for the 2023 Roland Garros, set for May 22-June eleventh.

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In a primary, Roland Garros will trial teaching from the participant field below these guidelines:

*Verbal” teaching should solely be given by the coaches or their entourage from their devoted field.

*Coaching “must be limited to a few words and must only be given when the player is in the same half of the court as their coach.”

*“Non-verbal” teaching is allowed no matter what aspect of the court docket the participant is on.

*During the match, the gamers are usually not allowed to strategy or begin a dialog with their coach, together with when they’re altering sides or through the breaks on the finish of every set, besides throughout a medical break, a rest room break or when their opponent is altering garments.

Roland Garros match director and Hall of Famer Amelie Mauresmo additionally introduced these adjustments for the 2023 version:

*Two extra combined doubles wild playing cards can be awarded for the 32-team combined draw. In whole, eight wild playing cards can be issued for the combined doubles draw, in contrast with six final 12 months.

*Night classes will begin a half-hour earlier, at 8:30 p.m., this 12 months. The ten night time classes, scheduled from Monday, May twenty ninth to Wednesday, June seventh on Philippe-Chatrier court docket, will every begin at 8.30 p.m.

*The well-liked Legends exhibition returns with three totally different codecs: males’s doubles, girls’s doubles and combined doubles. All 14 of the occasion’s matches can be performed on Court Suzanne-Lenglen. Twelve girls and twelve males will play the brand new Legends occasion.

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