The Roland Garros Junior Series by Renault Asian Series will be held in Japan for the first time from October 16th to 20th at Dai-ichi Life Sogoen Tennis Court, with the winners of the men’s and women’s singles events being awarded wild cards for the 2025 French Open Junior main draw.
This tournament will feature players who will be 17 years old or younger when they compete in the main tournament in 2025. The tournament ambassadors are:Kei Nishikori has been appointed to support the opportunities and experience of children aiming to play in the French Open Junior Championships. He will also give advice to junior players on the first day of the tournament on the 16th.
An opening ceremony will also be held at the Pullman Tokyo Tamachi Hotel, welcoming Nishikori and special guest Shuzo Matsuoka.
This tournament is being held by the French Tennis Federation (FFT) in cooperation with the Asian Tennis Confederation (ATF) and the Japan Tennis Association (JTA). The JTA, the host country, expressed their expectations, saying, “We feel that holding Roland Garros (French Open) in Japan is significant in terms of developing and strengthening junior players not only in Japan but also in Asia. The venue, Dai-ichi Life Sogoen Tennis Court, is an outdoor red clay court, so we look forward to the participating players growing and making progress through the experience of playing on red clay.”
[Tournament Overview]
Tournament name: Roland Garros Junior Series by Renault
Date: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 – Sunday, October 20th, 2024
Venue: Daiichi Life Sogoen Tennis Court (1-1-1 Kuda, Setagaya-ku)
Surface: Red clay court
Draw: 16 draws for men and women
Eligibility: Players who are 17 years old or younger at the time of the 2025 tournament
Tournament Dates: October 16th to 18th
There will be a round robin competition with groups of four players.
October 19-20
The top-ranked player in the group will advance to the final tournament to compete in the semi-finals and finals.
*The male and female winners will be eligible to compete in the main draw of the 2025 French Open Junior Tournament.
[About the venue]
Daiichi Life Aigoen Tennis Court was opened in 2022 and is a full-scale red clay court supervised by FFT and produced by JTA. During the clay court season, the national team also uses it as a training base. Every year, the National Elementary School Tennis Championship (Zensho Tennis) is also held here.
[Background to the tournament]
The reason this tournament is being held in Asia is that while there are many top professional players from Europe and North America, there are relatively few players from Asia. The ATP, WTA and ITF, which govern professional tennis, want to produce more Asian players, which is the background to the tournament.
[Player selection method]
The top six ITF-ranked players (men and women) from Asia will automatically qualify to play in the Roland Garros Junior Series by Renault in Tokyo.
Japan will be given four men and four women as the host nation, while four men and four women will qualify for the Tokyo Games from the qualifying tournaments in Kazakhstan and China.
The remaining four wild cards will be selected by Nishikori, one man and one woman, and the ATF, and will take part in the Roland Garros Junior Series by Renault Tokyo tournament.
[Comment from tournament ambassador Kei Nishikori]
“I am happy to be able to promote tennis in the Asian region. I would like to thank Roland Garros and the FFT for hosting this tournament in Japan to further the development of tennis in the Asian region. I can’t wait for the tournament.”
[Tournament Director’s Comments]
“After two years of holding tournaments in South America, it is wonderful that we have now been able to bring the Roland Garros Junior Series to Asia. We want to create an opportunity for the junior players to have a valuable experience, with the feeling that we are bringing Roland Garros to Tokyo. Nishikori, who is the tournament ambassador, has always achieved great results at Roland Garros, and we hope that by sharing his experience and knowledge of clay courts with the junior players, he will be able to help them improve even further. We hope that in the future this tournament will become a main event in the junior world.”
[Kimiko Date as presenter at the awards ceremony]
Kimiko Date, who is ranked 4th in the world, will be the presenter at the awards ceremony to be held on Sunday, October 20th, and will offer words of encouragement to the winning junior athletes.
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2024-09-14 03:48:14