Following the completion of open qualifiers, the French Tennis Federation (FTF) announced that the Roland-Garros eSeries by Renault 2024 has found the top eight players that will compete in the “Final Phase” taking place on May 25. According to organizers, the open qualifiers saw over 500K players across 215 territories compete on the mobile game Tennis Clash with more than 7.3M matches played.
The Final Phase will be broadcast on popular French TV host Samuel Étienne’s Twitch channel, along with participation from guests such as Quento, Gilles Simon, and LittleBigWhale. The event will also feature a closing concert featuring LittleBigWhale. The FTF also revealed that It will convert the points scored during the 31 matches of the Final Phase into a donation to Handigamers, contributing €15 EUR (roughly $16 USD) per point.
The following players are finalists:
- William “Ƒøƶƶу” Foster (UK)
- Gilles “Ivar” Simon (France)
- Tony Pilarski (France)
- Adjua “RenaPower” Boucher (U.S.)
- He “Kafe” ShengHao (China)
- Alessandro “ΔLEX” Bianco (Italy)
- Marc “MarcAntony” Antoine (Quebec)
- Hizir “Hizir” Balkanci (Turkey)
This year, the Final Phase is presented in conjunction with official partners Mastercard and Renault and will take place at the newly opened Roland-Garros auditorium in Paris, France.