 What's going on everybody welcome back to a breaking news story and the French open has been postponed an extra week Which means that it's gonna clash with some of the leading tournaments to Wimbledon on the grass Let's go check at the schedule having a look at the schedule now We've got the French open starting on the 30th of May, which is a week later Then it was supposed to we're supposed to start on the 23rd of May and the final will be played on the 13th of June again a week later Then it was supposed to be played in that second week of the French open We have four tournaments being played on the grass court. We have the Nottingham Open, which is the WTA 250 event We have the Ross Marlin grass court championships, which is the WTA 250 and ATP 250 event and the Stuttgart open Which is an ATP 250 event So what does this mean for the tour? It means that the second week of the French open is gonna overlap with the grass court season and the players that do well in the French open to make the quarter finals onwards are gonna have less time to prepare for the grass court season and for Wimbledon in particular so the reason why they pushed it back an extra week is so they can allow for fans to be in the stands this year because last You remember in 2020 we had the fans. It was about a thousand of them this year They want to have more fans coming into the stadium Which means they have more time to prepare for the influx of fans coming in and obviously they have to do all the COVID protocols as well So that's why they're trying to allow for more fans so they're gonna have to push it back a week We're clashing with a lot of events. Let me know down in the comments below How do you feel about this? Do you think the French open should just stick where they were and maybe have no fans at a Consequence clashing with other tournaments and forcing them to lose money because players like Federer He plays the Stuttgart open every other year So he won't be able to play if he does well at the French open which means Stuttgart are gonna lose some money The French open it's been pushed an extra week and it now clashes with the start of the grass court season