2005 French Open


The 2005 French Open was the 109th edition of the tournament. Rafael Nadal, seeded fourth at his first French Open, was a strong favorite to win the men's title after winning the Monte Carlo and Rome Masters, with Guillermo Coria, a 2004 finalist and 2005 runner-up to Nadal in both Monaco and Rome, calling Nadal the best clay-court player in the world prior to the tournament. After defeating top seed Roger Federer in the semi-finals, Nadal defeated Argentina's Mariano Puerta to claim his first French Open title, and the first of four won consecutively from 2005 until 2008. Nadal would go on to win the tournament a record twelve times.
In the women's draw, Justine Henin-Hardenne won her second French Open title, defeating 2000 champion Mary Pierce in the final in just 62 minutes. 2005 marked the first of three consecutive years in which Justine Henin would win the Women's Singles title.
Gastón Gaudio and Anastasia Myskina were unsuccessful in defending their 2004 titles, Gaudio losing in the fourth round and Myskina being upset in the first round. This tournament was also notable for the rise of future French Open champion Ana Ivanovic, who upset the 3rd seed Amélie Mauresmo in the third round, before going on to defeat another future champion in Francesca Schiavone on her way to her first Grand Slam quarter-final appearance in what was just her second Grand Slam tournament.

Points distribution

Below are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament.

Senior points

Seniors

Men's singles

Rafael Nadal defeated Mariano Puerta, 6–7, 6–3, 6–1, 7–5
Justine Henin-Hardenne defeated Mary Pierce, 6–1, 6–1
Jonas Björkman / Max Mirnyi defeated Mike Bryan / Bob Bryan, 2–6, 6–1, 6–4

Women's doubles

Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez defeated Cara Black / Liezel Huber, 4–6, 6–3, 6–3

Mixed doubles

Daniela Hantuchová / Fabrice Santoro defeated Martina Navratilova / Leander Paes, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2

Juniors

Boys' singles

Marin Čilić defeated Antal Van Der Duim, 6–3, 6–1

Girls' singles

Ágnes Szávay defeated Raluca-Ioana Olaru, 6–2, 6–1

Boys' doubles

Emiliano Massa / Leonardo Mayer defeated Sergey Bubka / Jérémy Chardy, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4

Girls' doubles

Victoria Azarenka / Ágnes Szávay defeated Raluca-Ioana Olaru / Amina Rakhim, 4–6, 6–4, 6–0

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 16 May 2005. Rankings and points are as of before 23 May 2005.

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† The player did not qualify the tournament in 2004. Accordingly, this was the points from the 18th best result are deducted instead.
The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.
RankPlayerPoints beforePoints defendingPoints afterWithdrawal reason
2 Lleyton Hewitt3,9352503,685Rib injury
29 Taylor Dent1,10051,095Ankle injury

Women's Singles">2005 French Open – Women's Singles">Women's Singles

Wildcard entries

Below are the lists of the wildcard awardees entering in the main draws.

Men's singles wildcard entries

  1. Thierry Ascione
  2. Arnaud Clément
  3. Peter Luczak
  4. Gaël Monfils
  5. Olivier Patience
  6. Florent Serra
  7. Gilles Simon
  8. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

    Women's singles wildcard entries

  9. Mailyne Andrieux
  10. Alizé Cornet
  11. Youlia Fedossova
  12. Sophie Ferguson
  13. Mathilde Johansson
  14. Pauline Parmentier
  15. Camille Pin
  16. Aravane Rezaï

    Men's doubles wildcard entries

  17. Thierry Ascione / Jean-René Lisnard
  18. Grégory Carraz / Antony Dupuis
  19. Jérémy Chardy / Nicolas Renavand
  20. Nicolas Devilder / Marc Gicquel
  21. Jérôme Haehnel / Florent Serra
  22. Olivier Mutis / Olivier Patience
  23. Édouard Roger-Vasselin / Gilles Simon

    Women's doubles wildcard entries

  24. Mailyne Andrieux / Pauline Parmentier
  25. Séverine Beltrame / Camille Pin
  26. Kildine Chevalier / Stéphanie Foretz
  27. Youlia Fedossova / Violette Huck
  28. Florence Haring / Virginie Pichet
  29. Mathilde Johansson / Aurélie Védy
  30. Martina Navratilova / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

    Mixed doubles wildcard entries

  31. Séverine Beltrame / Michaël Llodra
  32. Alizé Cornet / Gaël Monfils
  33. Stéphanie Foretz / Nicolas Devilder
  34. Émilie Loit / Jean-François Bachelot
  35. Camille Pin / Arnaud Clément
  36. Sandrine Testud / Marc Gicquel

    Qualifier entries

Men's Qualifiers entries

  1. Saša Tuksar
  2. Stan Wawrinka
  3. Tomas Behrend
  4. Jarkko Nieminen
  5. Lukáš Dlouhý
  6. Daniel Gimeno-Traver
  7. Fernando Vicente
  8. Antony Dupuis
  9. Robin Vik
  10. Marcos Daniel
  11. Dudi Sela
  12. Tomas Tenconi
  13. James Blake
  14. Chris Guccione
  15. Novak Djokovic
  16. Kristof Vliegen
The following players received entry into a lucky loser spot:
  1. Daniele Bracciali
  2. Dick Norman
  3. Flávio Saretta
  4. Juan Pablo Brzezicki
  5. Hugo Armando

    Women's Qualifiers entries

  6. Meilen Tu
  7. Sofia Arvidsson
  8. Clarisa Fernández
  9. Sandra Klösel
  10. Petra Mandula
  11. Michaëlla Krajicek
  12. Eva Birnerová
  13. Yvonne Meusburger
  14. Mervana Jugić-Salkić
  15. Libuše Průšová
  16. Anastasiya Yakimova
  17. Mara Santangelo
The following player received entry into a lucky loser spot:
  1. Lucie Šafářová

    Withdrawals

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An official videogame for the tournament, Roland Garros 2005: Powered by Smash Court Tennis, was launched exclusively for the PlayStation 2 platform. The game, which is an updated version of Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2, featured 15 licensed players and 4 official courts of the tournament: Court Philippe Chatrier, Court Suzanne Lenglen, Court 1 and Court 2.