French Open row erupts as Ons Jabeur blasts organisers in furious rant

Ons Jabeur has slammed the scheduling at the and claimed: "Whoever is making the decision, I don't think they have daughters".

The claycourt Grand Slam introduced a night session in 2021 with just one match shown on French Amazon Prime.

There were no women's matches shown in 11 night sessions last year and none so far this year. There was only one women's match shown in the 2022 and 2023 tournaments.

The double Wimbledon finalist lost 7-6 6-0 to the Polish No.25 seed Magdalena Frech.

But the Tunisian did not hold back on her views on the promotion of female sport. "It's still sad that we are still seeing this. I keep standing by my words," said Jabeur.

"In Europe, in general, it's unfortunate for women's sports in general. Not for tennis but for in general. I hope whoever is making the decision, I don't think they have daughters, because I don't think they want to treat their daughters like this.

"You know, it's a bit ironic. They don't show women's sport, they don't show women's tennis, and then they ask the question, Yeah, but mostly they watch men. Of course they watch men more because you show men more. Everything goes together.

"It's a shame from the Federation, a shame from the Prime, whatever called the TV, that they made such a contract like this. A lot of great players, they deserve to be there. One of the matches was Naomi and Paula. Such an unbelievable match. They were supposed to be there. Like last year, Iga and Naomi was supposed to be there. A lot of great matches, they should have been there. I'm not sure what kind of fans he's talking about. I know I'm a fan. I will watch that match."

French Tennis Federation president Gilles Moretton said in a press conference here on Monday: "Sometimes we have to think about what could be best for spectators. That's why sometimes we have to make some choices. Sometimes we need to put, I mean, for the night session, we need to put the better match, we think, could be for the spectators.

"Maybe we will have a few, I have no idea, a few female matches on the night sessions. We'll see. Depends on the schedule, who is playing who, who will be the best match."

Tournament organisers also fear a women's best-of-three match could be quickly over. And four-time champion Iga Swiatek prefers to play during the day - and will face Emma Raducanu in the third match in the Court Philippe-Chatrier on Wednesday.

And Coco Gauff said: "Yeah, I think here it's a unique topic just because there is only one slot at 8:15. Yeah, to be honest, if you want, I don't think any girl, I mean, prove me wrong, but I don't think anyone wants to play after the 8:15 match.

I don't know what the other girls think, but I think most people would rather play before that. Maybe there is a chance to put someone at 6:30 or 7:00. But yeah, I think if there is only going to be one match at 8:15, yeah, maybe there could be a woman's match, but if they want to start the night session at 8:15, I'm sure most girls on tour would rather not play after a men's match and have to go on at 11:00 or 12:00.

"I think it's just tournament to tournament. This tournament it seems like this is what they want. Most tournaments do have the two matches, one starting at 7:00 and one afterwards.

"Yeah, I can't really complain, but I think it's just up to the tournament, honestly. But, yeah."