This was the first time in the Open Era that neither the men's nor women's singles champions dropped a set throughout the entire tournament.

With his victory, Nadal equalled Roger Federer's all-time record of 20 Grand Slam titles.

[5] A few hours later, Rafael Nadal and Jannik Sinner's quarterfinal became the first ever men's match to start in the evening in French Open history.

[8] There was a singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which was part of the Grade A category of tournaments,[9] and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players under the Grand Slam category.

[8][11] Normally, this event is held on the fourth Sunday of May and ending in early June and is the second Grand Slam of the year on the peak of the spring clay court season.

Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, on 17 March, French Tennis Federation announced the tournament had been postponed and dates were moved first to 20 September to 4 October 2020 (the dates were initially scheduled for the annual Asian Hard Court swing which would be eventually cancelled on 24 July), and then moved a week further to 27 September to 11 October 2020, just two weeks after the 2020 US Open and the cancellation of the 2020 Wimbledon Championships.

On 13 April 2020, the French Government extended a ban on mass gatherings until July 2020 in a bid to control the spread of the virus.

These guidelines followed from official health and safety protocols including social distancing regulations from the regional government.

On 17 September, the spectator capacity for each match was reduced to 5,000 in all of the three main courts owing to an ongoing surge in the number of coronavirus cases in France, and couple of days later, the capacity was reduced once again to 1,000 starting on the eve of the main tournament.

Of the eight players that qualified for the finals, seven were seeded, with Jannik Sinner (who lost only one set in the first four rounds combined) the lone exception.

[41] Sixth-seeded Serena Williams withdrew prior to her second round match (awarded on walkover to Tsvetana Pironkova) because of an achilles injury.

3 Elina Svitolina was upset by Nadia Podoroska,[44] Iga Świątek defeated Martina Trevisan,[45] and No.

[52] In addition, 12th-seeded Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău advanced after playing just one set after Cristian Garín and Pedro Martínez retired.

[55] However, in the third round, six of the remaining twelve seeded pairs lost, notably second-seed Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos,[56] fifth-seed Ivan Dodig and Filip Polášek,[57] and sixth-seed Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut.

[58] In the quarterfinals, the top-seeded pair of Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah dropped their opening set for the third time in four matches before coming back to win in three over Frederik Nielsen and Tim Pütz.

7 Mate Pavić and Bruno Soares dropped their first set as well before winning the final two to defeat Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, the No.

[62] In the semifinals, Pavić and Soares pulled off a straight-set upset of the top seeded pair,[63] while Krawietz and Mies defeated Koolhof and Mektić in two sets as well.

[76] The semifinals saw the elimination of the final unranked pair, Świątek and Melichar, at the hands of Guarachi and Krawczyk,[77] while Babos and Mladenovic defeated Krejčíková and Siniaková.

Hewett prevailed 6–3 in the final set to win the championship, his fourth Grand Slam singles title in his sixth appearance.

In each match, the Japanese player prevailed; Ohtani defeated top-seeded de Groot and Kamiji beat Van Koot, both in straight sets.

2 Lapthorne, with Alcott winning both sets by a score of 6–2 to capture his eleventh Grand Slam singles title.

[89] Houdet and Peifer were beaten 12–10 on a tie-break in their semi-final by Fernandez and Kunieda, after the two sides had won a set each,[90] while Hewett and Reid advanced to the final with a straight-sets victory over Cattanéo and Gerard.

The third set, consisting of solely a tiebreak, was won 10–8 by de Groot and van Koot, completing their successful title defense.

The third set consisted only of a tiebreak, which was won by Schröder and Wagner, 10–8, to capture their second and nineteenth overall Grand Slam titles, respectively.

The all-Swiss championship match was won by Stricker, as he defeated Riede 6–2, 6–4, to claim his first junior Grand Slam title.

8 pair of Bruno Oliveira and Natan Rodrigues qualified for the semifinals, defeating Martin Krumich and Dalibor Svrčina in two sets to book a place in the final.

3 pair of Flavio Cobolli and Dominic Stricker defeated Lilian Marmousez and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in a third-set tiebreak to win their semifinal match and advance to the final.

Notably, the top-seeded pair of Weronika Baszak and Elsa Jacquemot were defeated in straight sets in the first round, while No.

[98] The semifinals saw the fifth-seeded pair of Maria Bondarenko and Diana Shnaider come from behind to defeat Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro and Guillermina Grant, and No.

2 Kamilla Bartone and Oksana Selekhmeteva lose in an upset to Eleonora Alvisi and Lisa Pigato.