French Open Tickets For the Night... Secondhand...
Tickets to the 2009 French Open are rather hard to come by… However, the tournament has a couple options which will hopefully allow more tennis fans to view the tournament in person. The "Evening Visitors" program, which was first introduced in 2004, allows fans to purchase reduced-price tickets which allow entrance after 5 pm to Philippe Chatrier Court, Suzanne Lenglen Court and No. 1 Court (except on Sunday 1 June) and on the outside
courts, depending on seats vacated. Fans can stay through the remainder of the day’s play which usually lasts until almost 9:30 pm. Viagogo is partnering with the French Tennis Federation to create a special ticket exchange channel for French Open tickets, making it the first secondary ticketing platform to land a deal in France. Viagogo is designed to allow ticket-holders who cannot attend the tournament to sell their tickets at face value prices with no mark-ups allowed. Viagogo guarantees the transactions, making them safer for both buyers and sellers. As a result, the hope is to reduce black-market ticket exchange. Viagogo, founded by former StubHub co-founder, Eric Baker, and backed by Andre Agassi and Stefanie Graf is an online marketplace where anyone can buy or sell tickets for live events. Its platform also will offer secondary tickets for the BNP Paribas Masters as well. Considering how hard it is to secure seats for the French Open, this new secondary ticketing option will offer tennis fans more ways to experience the excitement of Roland Garros.
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