Roland-Garros

Roland-Garros is the French Open tennis championship, held at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris. It is an annual Grand Slam tournament played on clay, with men’s and women’s competitions. The tournament and its venue share the Roland-Garros name. Its place in the tennis calendar brings together professional competition, spectators and broadcast coverage over the spring tournament period.

The event also provides the setting for France Télévisions’ RG Lab, a space for testing broadcasting and audience-experience prototypes. The broadcaster’s innovation work explores ways to capture, process and present images, including immersive video. These demonstrations are a distinct part of the tournament’s media activity: they provide a setting for experiments without making every proposed technique part of ordinary match coverage. France Télévisions retains human responsibility for editorial and technical decisions.