2020 French Open, Tournament
The 2020 French Open was the 124th edition of the French Open and was held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris. It was also be the first year in which there was a retractable roof on the French tennis courts, after construction was completed on Court Phillipe Chatrier in late 2019, with plans in place to also have a roof on Court Suzanne Lenglen by 2023. Additionally, it was also the first year in which night tennis was possible, as floodlights will be in operation on the twelve courts. The sunset in Paris in September and October 2020 was at approximately before 8:00 pm CEST rather than the normal May to June schedule, which is around after 9:30 pm CEST.


2020 French Open, Tournament
The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2020 ATP Tour and the 2020 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws.


2020 French Open, Tournament
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, and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players under the Grand Slam category. The tournament was played on clay courts and took place over a series of 23 courts, including the three main showcourts, Court Philippe Chatrier, Court Suzanne Lenglen and Court Simonne Mathieu.


2020 French Open, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
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.


2020 French Open, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
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.


2020 French Open, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
For the first time since the 1947 French Championships, this event will not be held on the traditional May–June schedule and the first time since the introduction of the Open Era that a major tournament has been postponed rather than cancelled. 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.


2020 French Open, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The Laver Cup was scheduled from 24 to 27 September, conflicting with the initial new date for the French Open (20 September to 4 October), before being postponed to 2021.


2020 French Open, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 7 September, it was announced the three main courts would have a maximum capacity of 11,500 spectators during the 15-day tournament, with 5,000 each in Court Philippe Chatrier and Court Suzanne Lenglen, and 1,500 in Court Simonne Mathieu. Matches on other courts would take place without spectators including the qualifying events. These guidelines followed from official health and safety protocols including social distancing regulations from the regional government.


2020 French Open, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
According to the tournament director Guy Forget, players and personnel would have to be tested for the virus upon arrival in Paris to confirm a negative test result and a second test 72 hours later. Players would then have to stay at two hotels stipulated by organizers once they get tested.


2020 French Open, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
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.


2020 French Open, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The mixed doubles event did not take place this year and this is the second consecutive Grand Slam not holding the event after the US Open.


2020 French Open, Events, Men's Singles
The Men's Singles event began on 27 September with the first of seven total rounds. 32 players were seeded, while the other 96 players were not. Of those seeded players, eleven were defeated in the first round, notably No. 4 Daniil Medvedev, No. 8 Gaël Monfils, and No. 11 David Goffin. As the French Open is the only remaining Grand Slam tournament that uses the advantage set, there exists the possibility of significantly longer final sets, as seen in the first round match between Lorenzo Giustino and Corentin Moutet.


2020 French Open, Events, Men's Singles
The match was won after just over six hours by the former, 0–6, 7–6 (7), 7–6 (3), 2–6, 18–16, and was the second-longest match in French Open history. Denis Shapovalov, John Isner, and Dušan Lajović were the highest of the five seeded players to exit in the second round, and a further nine seeded players were defeated in the third and fourth rounds. 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.


2020 French Open, Events, Men's Singles
In the quarterfinals, No. 1 Novak Djokovic defeated No. 17 Pablo Carreño Busta (Djokovic's loss in the first set was his first dropped set of the tournament), No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated No. 13 Andrey Rublev, No. 12 Diego Schwartzman upset No. 3 Dominic Thiem, and No. 2 Rafael Nadal ended the upset bid of Jannik Sinner. The two semifinal matches told very different tales; Nadal dominated Schwartzman, beating him in straight sets, while Djokovic opened against Tsitsipas by winning the first two sets, but dropped the next two before winning the final set 6–1 to take the match.


2020 French Open, Events, Men's Singles
In the championship, Nadal opened dominantly with a first-set bagel and a 6–2 performance in the second set, and finished with a 7–5 final set to win the title. This marked Nadal's fourth consecutive and 13th overall French Open title and his 20th overall Grand Slam singles title, equaling Roger Federer's all-time record. Furthermore, Nadal did not lose a single set throughout the entire tournament.


2020 French Open, Events, Women's Singles
The Women's Singles event began on 27 September with the first of seven total rounds. 32 players were seeded, while the other 96 players were not. Twelve seeded players lost in the first round, notably No. 9 Johanna Konta, No. 12 Madison Keys, and No. 15 Markéta Vondroušová, and a further seven fell in the second round, among them No. 2 Karolína Plíšková, No. 10 Victoria Azarenka, and No. 14 Elena Rybakina. Sixth-seeded Serena Williams withdrew prior to her second round match (awarded on walkover to Tsvetana Pironkova) because of an achilles injury. Ten seeded players lost in the third and fourth round combined, including top seed Simona Halep.


2020 French Open, Events, Women's Singles
Only three seeded players qualified for the finals. In the quarterfinals, three matches were decided in straight sets: No. 3 Elina Svitolina was upset by Nadia Podoroska, Iga Świątek defeated Martina Trevisan, and No. 7 Petra Kvitová beat Laura Siegemund. No. 4 Sofia Kenin's defeat of Danielle Collins was the only to go to a third set. In the semifinals, Świątek defeated Podoroska and Kenin beat Kvitová, both in straight sets. This set up a final between Świątek and Kenin, which was won easily by Świątek, 6–4, 6–1.


2020 French Open, Events, Women's Singles
This was Świątek's first WTA singles title, as she became first Polish player, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles title. Świątek did not drop a set throughout the entire tournament, did not lose more than 4 games per set, and did not lose more than 5 games in any match.


2020 French Open, Events, Men's Doubles
The Men's Doubles event began on 29 September with the first of six total rounds. 16 pairs were seeded, while the other 48 players were not. In the first round, only one seeded pair lost: tenth-seeded Raven Klaasen and Oliver Marach. In addition, 12th-seeded Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău advanced after playing just one set after Cristian Garín and Pedro Martínez retired. The second round saw the elimination of just three more seeded pairs, No. 4 Łukasz Kubot/Marcelo Melo, No. 11 John Peers/Michael Venus, and No. 16 Austin Krajicek/Franko Škugor. However, in the third round, six of the remaining twelve seeded pairs lost, notably second-seed Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, fifth-seed Ivan Dodig and Filip Polášek, and sixth-seed Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut.


2020 French Open, Events, Men's Doubles
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. No. 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. 3 pair.


2020 French Open, Events, Men's Doubles
The other two quarterfinal matches were decided in straight sets: No. 9 Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektić defeated Nicholas Monroe and Tommy Paul, and No. 8 Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies defeated No. 13 Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski. In the semifinals, Pavić and Soares pulled off a straight-set upset of the top seeded pair, while Krawietz and Mies defeated Koolhof and Mektić in two sets as well. This set up a final between Pavić/Soares and Krawietz/Mies, which was won by the latter pair in straight sets. This marked the second Grand Slam title for both players, as they had won the French Open doubles championship the year prior for their first title.


2020 French Open, Events, Women's Doubles
The Women's Doubles event began on 30 September with the first of six total rounds. 16 pairs were seeded, while the other 48 players were not. The first round saw the loss of two seeded pairs: No. 11 Lucie Hradecká and Andreja Klepač and twin sisters Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok, the No. 15 seeded pair. Two further pairs fell in the second round; No. 3 Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka were defeated and No. 12 Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva retired after the first set of their match. Of the fourteen remaining seeded pairs, half of them were defeated in the third round. Notably among these were the top-seeded pair, Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strýcová, as well as No. 5 Gabriela Dabrowski and Jeļena Ostapenko, No. 6 Květa Peschke and Demi Schuurs.


2020 French Open, Events, Women's Doubles
Five seeded pairs qualified for the quarterfinals, alongside three unseeded pairs. In the quarterfinals, No. 14 Alexa Guarachi/Desirae Krawczyk upset No. 7 Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara, Iga Świątek/Nicole Melichar defeated Asia Muhammad/Jessica Pegula, No. 4 Barbora Krejčíková/Kateřina Siniaková beat No. 9 Sofia Kenin/Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and No. 2 Tímea Babos/Kristina Mladenovic (the defending champions) defeated Marta Kostyuk/Aliaksandra Sasnovich. The semifinals saw the elimination of the final unranked pair, Świątek and Melichar, at the hands of Guarachi and Krawczyk, while Babos and Mladenovic defeated Krejčíková and Siniaková. This set up a final between the pair of Babos and Mladenovic and the pair of Guarachi and Krawczyk. The former pair successfully defended their title in straight sets by a score of 6–4, 7–5.


2020 French Open, Events, Wheelchair Men's Singles
The Wheelchair Men's Singles tournament began on 7 October with the quarterfinal round. The field was composed of eight players; Shingo Kunieda and defending champion Gustavo Fernández received the top two seeds and the other six players were unseeded. All of the quarterfinal matches were decided in straight sets, as Kunieda defeated wild card entry Frédéric Cattaneo, Joachim Gérard defeated Nicolas Peifer, Alfie Hewett defeated Stéphane Houdet, and Fernández defeated Gordon Reid. Both semifinal matches saw a ranked player upset; No. 1 Kunieda was defeated in three sets by Gérard and No. 2 Fernández fell in two sets to Hewett. In the final, Hewett won the first set 6–4 before losing the second set to Gérard by the same score. Hewett prevailed 6–3 in the final set to win the championship, his fourth Grand Slam singles title in his sixth appearance.


2020 French Open, Events, Wheelchair Women's Singles
The Wheelchair Women's Singles tournament began on 7 October with the quarterfinal round. The field was composed of eight players; Diede de Groot and Yui Kamiji received the top two seeds and the other six players were unseeded. All but one of the quarterfinal matches went to three sets, as de Groot defeated Jordanne Whiley, Aniek van Koot defeated wild card entry Charlotte Famin, and Kamiji defeated Marjolein Buis. Momoko Ohtani was the only player to win in straight sets, defeating Kgothatso Montjane.


2020 French Open, Events, Wheelchair Women's Singles
This set up two semifinal matches, each to be played between a player from The Netherlands and a player from Japan. In each match, the Japanese player prevalied; Ohtani defeated top-seeded de Groot and Kamiji beat Van Koot, both in straight sets. The final was played on 9 October between the lone Japanese players in the event. In the final, No. 2 Yui Kamiji defeated Momoko Ohtani, 6–2, 6–1, to win her fourth French Open singles title and her 24th Grand Slam title overall.


2020 French Open, Events, Wheelchair Quad Singles
The Wheelchair Quad Singles tournament began on 8 October with the semifinal round. The field was composed of four players; defending champion Dylan Alcott and Andy Lapthorne received the top two seeds and the other two players were unseeded. In the opening round, Alcott faced wild card entry Sam Schröder in a rematch of the final of the US Open some weeks earlier. Alcott was victorious in two sets. The other semifinal saw Lapthorne defeat David Wagner in three sets, with Lapthorne winning the first and third. The third place match took place between Schröder and Wagner, and was won by the former in straight sets. The final was played between No. 1 Alcott and No. 2 Lapthorne, with Alcott winning both sets by a score of 6–2 to capture his eleventh Grand Slam singles title.


2020 French Open, Events, Wheelchair Men's Doubles
The Wheelchair Men's Doubles competition featured the same eight players as contested the singles event. Houdet and Peifer teamed up to form the top-seeded pair, while Hewett and Reid were the second seeds. The other pairings were Fernandez with Kunieda, and Cattaneo with Gerard. 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, while Hewett and Reid advanced to the final with a straight-sets victory over Cattaneo and Gerard. In the final, Hewett and Reid won the first set on a tie-break before losing the second 6–1, but finished victorious after the deciding tie-break finished 10–3 in their favour.


2020 French Open, Events, Wheelchair Women's Doubles
As with the men's competition, the Wheelchair Women's Doubles event featured the same eight players as in the singles event. Two of the four pairs were seeded: Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot received the top seed, and the second seed went to Yui Kamiji and Jordanne Whiley. In the semifinals, De Groot and van Koot defeated the pair of Kgothatso Montjane and Momoko Ohtani, and Kamiji and Whiley defeated the pair of Marjolein Buis and Charlotte Famin.


2020 French Open, Events, Wheelchair Women's Doubles
The final was played between the pair of de Groot and van Koot, the defending champions, and the pair of Kamiji and Whiley. The Dutch pair took the first set 7–6 in a tiebreak, but the latter pair came back to win the second set 6–3 and force the match into a third. The third set, consisting of solely a tiebreak, was won 10–8 by de Groot and van Koot, completing their successful title defense.


2020 French Open, Events, Wheelchair Quad Doubles
The Wheelchair Quad Doubles event consisted of a single match, played on 9 October between the pair of Dylan Alcott and Andy Lapthorne and the pair of David Wagner and Sam Schröder. Alcott and Wagner won this event as partners at the tournament the year prior, but chose to partner with different players for this edition. The first set was won by Alcott and Lapthorne, 6–4, but Schröder and Wagner responded with a 7–5 win in the second set. 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.


2020 French Open, Events, Boys' Singles
Of the sixteen seeded players, only two made it through the first three rounds and into the quarterfinals: No. 7 Dominic Stricker and No. 8 Leandro Riedi. Stricker defeated Lukas Neumayer in his quarterfinal matchup, while Riede battled from behind to defeat Alex Barrena. The other two matches saw Juan Bautista Torres defeat Lilian Marmousez and Guy den Ouden defeat Sean Cuenin. In the semifinals, Stricker beat Torres in three sets (with both of his wins coming by virtue of bagels), while Riedi booked a place in the final by defeating den Ouden in two sets. 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.


2020 French Open, Events, Girls' Singles
Of the sixteen seeded players, five made it past the first three rounds and qualified for the quarterfinals. Among them was No. 3 Elsa Jacquemot, who was awarded a wild card into the main competition, but lost to qualifier Renata Zarazúa in the first round; she then entered the Girls' Singles competition. Jaacquemot defeated No. 10 Kristina Dmitruk in straight sets in her quarterfinal match; the other matches saw Alina Charaeva upset No. 9 Alexandra Vecic, No. 4 Polina Kudermetova defeat Océane Babel, and No. 2 Alexandra Eala defeat Linda Nosková. In the semifinals, Charaeva pulled another upset by defeating Kudermetova, while Jacquemot defeated Eala. The final was played between Jacquemot and Charaeva, and was won by the former, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2.


2020 French Open, Events, Boys' Doubles
Of the four pairs that qualified for the semifinals, two were seeded. Only three seeded pairs of the original eight made it past the second round, notably No. 1 Arthur Cazaux and Harold Mayot, who withdrew before their opening match. The only seeded pair to lose their quarterfinal match was No. 7 Mikołaj Lorens and Kārlis Ozoliņš, who retired before the second set began. The No. 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. The No. 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. In the championship match, Cobolli and Stricker defeated Oliveira and Rodrigues, 6–2, 6–4, to win the title.


2020 French Open, Events, Girls' Doubles
Of the eight pairs that were seeded at the start of the tournament, two were among the four pairs that qualified for the semifinal round. Notably, the top-seeded pair of Weronika Baszak and Elsa Jacquemot were defeated in straight sets in the first round, while No. 3 Alexandra Eala and Elvina Kalieva were knocked out in the third-set tiebreak of their opening match.


2020 French Open, Events, Girls' Doubles
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. This set up a final between No. 5 Bondarenko/Shnaider and unseeded Alvisi/Pigato, which was won in an upset by the latter in straight sets, 7–6(7–3), 6–4.


2020 French Open, Point distribution and prize money, Point distribution
Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.


2020 French Open – Boys' Doubles
Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida and Thiago Agustín Tirante were the defending champions, but both players were no longer eligible to participate in junior events.


2020 French Open – Boys' Doubles
Flavio Cobolli and Dominic Stricker won the title, defeating Bruno Oliveira and Natan Rodrigues in the final, 6–2, 6–4.


2020 French Open – Boys' Singles
Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune was the defending champion, but he chose not to participate.


2020 French Open – Boys' Singles
Dominic Stricker won the title, defeating Leandro Riedi in an all-Swiss final, 6–2, 6–4.


2020 French Open – Boys' Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2020 French Open – Day-by-day summaries
The 2020 French Open is described here in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries.


2020 French Open – Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (6 October)
Play was set to start at 1200 CEST, but due to inclement weather in the latter half of the previous day, the women's singles fourth round match of Ons Jabeur and Danielle Collins was moved from Court Suzanne Lenglen to Court Philippe Chatrier to be started at 1100 CEST, with the quarterfinals matches to follow shortly thereafter.


2020 French Open – Girls' Doubles
Chloe Beck and Emma Navarro were the defending champions, but both players were no longer eligible to participate in junior events.


2020 French Open – Girls' Doubles
Eleonora Alvisi and Lisa Pigato won the title, defeating Maria Bondarenko and Diana Shnaider in the final, 7–6(7–3), 6–4.


2020 French Open – Girls' Singles
Leylah Annie Fernandez was the defending champion, but chose to compete in the women's singles competition instead. She lost to seventh seed Petra Kvitová in the third round.


2020 French Open – Girls' Singles
Third seed Elsa Jacquemot was awarded a wild card into the main competition, but lost to qualifier Renata Zarazúa in the first round. Jacquemot then entered the Girls' Singles competition and won the title, defeating Alina Charaeva in the final, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2.


2020 French Open – Girls' Singles, Seeds
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2020 French Open – Men's Doubles
Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Mate Pavić and Bruno Soares in the final, 6–3, 7–5.


2020 French Open – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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2020 French Open – Men's Singles
Three-time defending champion Rafael Nadal successfully defended his title, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final, 6–0, 6–2, 7–5 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2020 French Open. It was his record-extending 13th French Open title and 20th major title overall, equaling Roger Federer's all-time record. For the fourth time in his career, Nadal won the title without dropping a set during the tournament; for the first time in French Open history, neither the men's nor women's singles champions lost a set.


2020 French Open – Men's Singles
Nadal also became the first player, male or female, to win 100 matches at the French Open and only the second man, after Federer at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, to win 100 matches at a single major. Djokovic was attempting to become the first man in the Open Era to achieve the double career Grand Slam (a feat he would accomplish at the following year's tournament).


2020 French Open – Men's Singles
Lorenzo Giustino defeated Corentin Moutet 0–6, 7–6(9–7), 7–6(7–3), 2–6, 18–16 in the first round. The match was the second-longest in French Open history, lasting 6 hours and 5 minutes, and the fourth-longest in the history of major tournaments. Taylor Fritz and Lorenzo Sonego played the longest tie-break in French Open history. Sonego won the third set tie-break 19–17 to win the third-round match 7–6(7–5), 6–3, 7–6(19–17).


2020 French Open – Men's Singles
Jannik Sinner became the first man to reach the quarterfinals of Roland Garros in his debut since Nadal in 2005 and the youngest quarterfinalist since Djokovic in 2006.


2020 French Open – Men's Singles
Hugo Gaston (ranked world No. 239) became the lowest-ranked man to reach the fourth round of Roland Garros since Arnaud Di Pasquale in 2002.


2020 French Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
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2020 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
The 2020 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying was a series of tennis matches which took place 21–25 September 2020 to determine the sixteen qualifiers into the main draw of the 2020 French Open. Three players also qualified as lucky losers.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final
The 2020 French Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the men's singles tournament at the 2020 French Open, with Rafael Nadal defeating Novak Djokovic 6–0, 6–2, 7–5. It was a Grand Slam final match of historic proportions for both players. Nadal was aiming to become the first man to win a thirteenth French Open title, extending the record he himself held. Furthermore, Nadal was aiming to tie Roger Federer's all-time record of twenty Grand Slam men's singles titles.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final
Djokovic was aiming to become the first man in the Open Era and first since Rod Laver in the 1960s to win all of the Grand Slam events at least twice. Additionally, Nadal was aiming to become the first player to defeat Djokovic in a completed match in the 2020 season since Djokovic had remained unbeaten up until that point, save for his disqualification at the US Open.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Match
Rain before the start of the match meant the tournament referee took the decision to close the roof of Court Philippe Chatrier, meaning the final was the first at the French Open to be held under indoor conditions. Nadal won the first set 6–0, despite four of the six games going to deuce. The set was the first ever 6–0 set inflicted upon Djokovic in a Grand Slam final. The second set was also won by Nadal, this time 6–2. The third set was far more competitive. Nadal broke to lead 3–2 with serve, but was then broken by Djokovic for the first time in the match. Nadal broke again at 5–5, before serving out the championship to love, with an ace on the last point.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Post-match reactions
I don't have much to say but that I was completely overplayed by Rafa, by a better player on the court. He was not missing at all and getting every ball back, just playing tactically great. I felt well throughout the entire tournament. I thought I was in a great form. Certainly I could have played better, especially in the first two sets. But he did surprise me with the way he was playing, the quality of tennis he was producing, the level. He's phenomenal. He played a perfect match. The third set I managed to come back. I kind of found my groove on the court. Had my chances, didn't use them. He closed out the match. That's it. He was the far better player on the court today and absolutely deserved to win.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Post-match reactions
Nadal during his post match press conference, commented on matching Federer's Grand Slam tally:


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Post-match reactions
In terms of these records, of course I care, I am a big fan of the history of sport in general. I respect that a lot. For me it means a lot to share this number with Roger, no? But let's see what's going on when we finish our careers - we keep playing.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Post-match reactions
When asked about the level of his performance in the final, Nadal responded:


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Post-match reactions
Yeah, well, of course I played at an amazing level of tennis, no? For two sets and a half I played great. I can't say another thing. Is impossible to have this score against him without playing great. Yeah, played a very good final. I played at my highest level when I needed to play at my highest level, so something I am very proud.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Post-match reactions
The personal satisfaction is big because under the circumstances that we played this Roland Garros, even if I played an amazing match this afternoon, the conditions are a little bit not the conditions that I will choose, never, to play an event like this. I was able to adapt well. I was able to, as I say the first day, to be positive in every circumstances that I was facing during the whole event, trying to accept all the challenges in terms of sometimes the feeling on the ball haven't been great because of the cold and everything. But I take it in a positive way, no? I just tried to work every day with the right determination, looking for my goals. Yeah, I think is one of the Roland Garros that have a better personal value for myself.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Post-match reactions
I have always had the utmost respect for my friend Rafa as a person and as a champion. As my greatest rival over many years, I believe we have pushed each other to become better players. Therefore, it is a true honour for me to congratulate him on his 20th Grand Slam victory. It is especially amazing that he has now won Roland-Garros an incredible 13 times, which is one of the greatest achievements in sport. I also congratulate his team, because nobody can do this alone. I hope 20 is just another step on the continuing journey for both of us. Well done, Rafa. You deserve it.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Significance
Nadal, in winning the title, moved level with Federer's record twenty Grand Slam single titles. Federer had been alone as the all-time leader since  Wimbledon 2009 where he had won his fifteenth Grand Slam title and moved clear of Pete Sampras' then record fourteen. Had Djokovic won, he would have claimed an eighteenth Grand Slam singles title and as such closed to within one of Nadal's count and two of Federer's.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Significance
Furthermore, he also would have become the first man in the Open Era to have won each of the Grand Slam titles on two occasions (Djokovic would achieve this eight months later at the 2021 French Open). This victory for Nadal is seen to be of huge importance as part of the ongoing debate over which of the so-called  Big Three will go down as the greatest of all time. This was also the fourth time Nadal won the French Open without dropping a set.


2020 French Open – Men's singles final, Significance
Djokovic coming into the event had not lost a single completed match for the entire season, his only one official loss coming through his default at the US Open. In late August he had commented that 'anything is possible' when asked  about whether he could go unbeaten for the whole season. As such, this was Djokovic's first defeat for a completed match during the 2020 season. Despite leading their Grand Slam meetings 9–6 before their meeting, Nadal had not beaten Djokovic at a Major since the 2014 French Open final, over six years prior to this match.


2020 French Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Gustavo Fernández and Shingo Kunieda were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid, 6–7(4–7), 6–1, [3–10].


2020 French Open – Wheelchair Men's Singles
Gustavo Fernández was the defending champion, but lost to Alfie Hewett in the semifinals.


2020 French Open – Wheelchair Men's Singles
Hewett went on to win the title, defeating Joachim Gérard in the final, 6–4, 4–6, 6–3.


2020 French Open – Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Dylan Alcott and David Wagner were the defending champions but both players chose to participate with a different partner. Wagner partnered Sam Schröder and successfully defended his title, defeating Alcott and Andy Lapthorne in the final, 4–6, 7–5, [10–8].


2020 French Open – Wheelchair Quad Singles
Dylan Alcott was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Andy Lapthorne in the final, 6–2, 6–2.


2020 French Open – Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Yui Kamiji and Jordanne Whiley in the final, 7–6(7–2), 3–6, [10–8].


2020 French Open – Wheelchair Women's Singles
Diede de Groot was the defending champion but lost to Momoko Ohtani in the semifinals.


2020 French Open – Wheelchair Women's Singles
Yui Kamiji won the title, defeating Ohtani in the final, 6–2, 6–1.


2020 French Open – Women's Doubles
Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Alexa Guarachi and Desirae Krawczyk in the final, 6–4, 7–5.


2020 French Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles
Iga Świątek defeated Sofia Kenin in the final, 6–4, 6–1 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2020 French Open.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles
This was Świątek's first Grand Slam title and first WTA singles title overall, making her the first player since Jeļena Ostapenko to win a major tournament as their maiden singles title. Ranked world No. 54, Świątek became the lowest-ranked player to win the French Open since rankings were introduced in 1975, and the lowest-ranked player to win a major title since Sloane Stephens won the 2017 US Open. Świątek also became the first Polish player to win a major singles title.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles
At 19 years and 4 months of age, Świątek became the youngest woman to win the French Open singles title since Monica Seles in 1992. She did not drop a set throughout the entire tournament, dropping only 28 games in total, the fewest since Steffi Graf dropped 20 games in 1988. This also marked the first French Open where both the men's and women's singles champions did not drop a set during the tournament. Świątek became the first female Polish player since Jadwiga Jędrzejowska in 1939 to reach a French Open final, and the first to reach any major final since Agnieszka Radwańska at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles
Ashleigh Barty was the defending champion, but chose not to participate due to safety concerns resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This marked the first time since 2008 that the defending French Open champion did not participate, and the second consecutive major tournament where the defending champion did not participate, after Bianca Andreescu withdrew from the 2020 US Open.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles
Barty and Simona Halep were in contention for the WTA No. 1 singles ranking. Barty retained the top ranking when Halep lost to Świątek in the fourth round, ensuring a year-end No. 1 ranking for the second consecutive year. Halep's loss guaranteed a new French Open champion for the fifth consecutive year, and a maiden Grand Slam finalist from the top half of the draw.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles
Serena Williams was attempting to add to her Open Era record of 23 major singles titles and equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 major singles titles, but withdrew before her second round match due to a left Achilles injury she suffered at the US Open.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles
Only 13 of the 32 seeded players advanced to the third round, the fewest at any major since Wimbledon expanded to 32 seeds in 2001. Only three seeded players advanced to the quarterfinals, the fewest since the 1978 Australian Open. This was the first Grand Slam tournament since the 1999 Wimbledon Championships that two qualifiers, Nadia Podoroska and Martina Trevisan, reached the quarterfinals. The semifinal match between Świątek and Podoroska was also the first semifinal to be contested by two unseeded players at a Grand Slam since the 1983 French Open.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles
Podoroska became the first qualifier in history to reach the semifinals of the French Open and the first to reach the semifinals at any major tournament since Alexandra Stevenson at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. She also became the first female Argentine player since Paola Suárez in 2004 to reach the quarterfinals of a major tournament in singles, and the lowest-ranked semifinalist (ranked No. 130) at any Grand Slam since Henin at the 2010 Australian Open.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2020 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
The 2020 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying is a series of tennis matches that takes place from 22 September to 25 September 2020 to determine the twelve qualifiers into the main draw of the 2020 French Open – Women's Singles, and, if necessary, the lucky losers.


2020 French Road Cycling Cup
The 2020 French Road Cycling Cup was the 29th edition of the French Road Cycling Cup. Compared to the previous season, the same 15 events were held. The cup was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in France, as originally 16 races were scheduled, but only 8 were eventually held, including some replacement events. ·  The defending champion from the previous season was Marc Sarreau, he was succeeded by Nacer Bouhanni who managed to win two events.


2020 French Road Cycling Cup, Events
The calendar was heavily disturbed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To obtain a reasonable number of events, replacement races were included in the calendar, such as the 1st stage of the Route d'Occitanie and the 4th stage of the Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine. A notable race added was also the sprinters' classic Paris–Tours.


2020 French Road Cycling Cup, Final Cup standings, Young rider classification
All riders younger than 25 are eligible for this classification.


2020 French Road Cycling Cup, Final Cup standings, Teams
Only French teams are eligible to be classified in the teams classification.


2020 French Senate election
Senatorial elections were held on 27 September 2020 to pick 172 of the 348 seats in the Senate of the French Fifth Republic. The elections were a modest victory for the centre-right Républicains. The environmentalist EELV party entered the upper chamber, while President Macron's centrist LREM maintained their position, despite losses in municipal elections earlier in the year. The far-right NR kept their one seat, and the Corsican nationalists gained their first seat as well.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the SHARK Helmets Grand Prix de France) was the tenth round of the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, the ninth round of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship and the sixth and seventh round of the 2020 MotoE World Cup, which represent the end of the season for the MotoE class. It was held at the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans on 11 October 2020.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix
Jordi Torres won the MotoE World Cup in the second race.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The opening rounds of the 2020 championship were heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Several Grands Prix were cancelled or postponed after the aborted opening round in Qatar, prompting the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme to draft a new calendar. On 11 June, a new schedule based solely within Europe was announced. The French Grand Prix, originally scheduled for May 17 as the sixth Grand Prix of the season, was placed on October 11.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Background, MotoGP Championship standings before the race
After his victory in the Catalan Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo climbed to the top of the drivers' standings with 108 points, 8 points ahead of Joan Mir and 18 over Maverick Viñales. Andrea Dovizioso, previous leader of the classification, due to the accident with Johann Zarco in the Catalan race, fell to fourth place with 84 points, followed by Franco Morbidelli with 77 points.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Background, MotoGP Championship standings before the race
In the team championship, Petronas Yamaha SRT with 185 points leads the Suzuki Ecstar Team Championship with 160. Monster Energy Yamaha is third with 148 points, followed by the Ducati Team and Pramac Racing with 123 and 118 points respectively.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Free practice, MotoGP
The first session took place in wet conditions and saw Bradley Smith as the fastest ahead of Johann Zarco and Danilo Petrucci. The second session was held in changing and mixed conditions between wet and dry, with Jack Miller the fastest ahead of Maverick Viñales and Takaaki Nakagami. The third session had dry track conditions with Fabio Quartararo the fastest ahead of Miguel Oliveira and Franco Morbidelli.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Free practice, Combined Free Practice 1-2-3
The top ten riders (written in bold) qualified in Q2.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Free practice, Combined Free Practice 1-2-3
In the fourth session, Quartararo was the fastest ahead of Morbidelli and Viñales.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Warm up, MotoGP
In the warm up, Franco Morbidelli was the fastest ahead of Maverick Viñales and Cal Crutchlow.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Race, MotoE, Race 1
The race, scheduled to be run for 7 laps, was red-flagged after a first-lap accident involving Mattia Casadei. The race was later restarted over 5 laps with the original starting grid.


2020 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race
Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.


2020 French municipal elections
The 2020 French municipal elections were held from 15 March to 28 June to renew the municipal councils of the approximately 35,000 French communes. The first round took place on 15 March and the second round was postponed to 28 June due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
Municipal elections in France result in the renewal of the members of municipal councils in every commune, and are held every 6 years. With the exception of Paris, Lyon, and Marseille, the electoral subdivision is the commune itself. In Paris, separate elections are held for each arrondissement, as is the case in Lyon, where elections are also held by arrondissement; in Marseille, elections are held within sectors containing two arrondissements each.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
Election is open to European citizens living in the country, but since 2020, 800 English/British people have lost their electoral capacities due to Brexit.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
The number of municipal councillors within each commune is dependent upon its population, from a minimum of 7 for communes with a population less than 100 to 69 for those with a population of 300,000 or more (with the exception of the three largest cities). The electoral system within each commune is also dependent on its population.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
In communes with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, two-round majority-at-large voting with panachage is used, with candidates elected in the first round should they receive an absolute majority of votes cast and at least a quarter of the number of individuals registered on the electoral rolls. The remaining seats are filled in the second round, in which only a plurality of votes is required to be elected. The requirement for gender parity is also void in these smaller communes.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
In communes with 1,000 or more inhabitants, electoral lists contest a two-round proportional representation system with a majority bonus. Should a list receive an absolute majority of votes cast in the first round, it will receive half of all seats and the rest of the seats will be distributed proportionally among electoral lists with at least 5% of votes using the D'Hondt method.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
If a second round is necessitated, only lists which received at least 10% of valid votes in the first round proceed, and may merge with other lists which received at least 5% of votes cast in the first round. Seats are then allocated using the same method as the first round, guaranteeing a majority for the list with a relative majority of votes.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
In the three largest cities, the election of municipal councils and arrondissement councils takes place simultaneously, and follow the same electoral method as that for communes with 1,000 or more inhabitants within each electoral division (whether arrondissement or sector). Mayors are elected in a two-round secret ballot requiring an absolute majority, and otherwise with a plurality of votes from municipal councillors if a third round is required.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
The election of councillors to intercommunal structures also takes place concurrently with the municipal elections; in communes with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, they are chosen "in the order of the table" (mayors, deputy mayors, and councillors), while in larger communes, they are elected simultaneously.


2020 French municipal elections, Electoral system
The number of municipal councillors elected in each commune is determined as a function of its population, ranging from 7 to 69 in all communes except for the three largest cities.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, National
The Harris Interactive poll was based on communes with a population of at least 10,000.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Bordeaux
The April 2018 and May 2019 Ifop polls were commissioned by Esprit Bordeaux, an association founded by supporters of Alain Juppé, later backing Nicolas Florian.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Lille
The March 2019 OpinionWay poll was sponsored by The Republicans, while La République En Marche! commissioned the BVA poll conducted in October 2018, which did not specify a specific LR candidate.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Marseille
The February 2019 Ifop poll was commissioned by Génération engagement, the financing association of Bruno Gilles, the PollingVox polls by l'Association des Amis de Martine Vassal (with Bruno Gilles as a miscellaneous right candidate in June 2019), and the February 2018 Ifop poll by Cap sur l'avenir 13, the micro-party of Renaud Muselier.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Marseille's 5th sector
The May 2019 BVA poll was commissioned by Les amis de Lionel Royer-Perreaut, the micro-party of its namesake.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Montpellier
The March 2018 Ifop poll was commissioned by Mohed Altrad.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Mulhouse
The September 2018 OpinionWay poll was paid for by the city of Mulhouse and the outgoing majority led by Michèle Lutz.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Nancy
The June 2019 Ifop poll was conducted on behalf of the Socialist Party (PS).


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Nantes
The June 2019 Ifop poll was conducted on behalf of the Socialist Party (PS).


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Nice
The Ifop poll conducted in December 2017 tested a "miscellaneous right and centre of the municipal majority" list led by Christian Estrosi in the event that Éric Ciotti headed a list representing The Republicans (LR) as well as considering Robert Injey as heading a list for La France Insoumise, and was commissioned by Les Amis de Christian Estrosi.


2020 French municipal elections, Opinion polls, By commune, Paris
The March 2019 Ifop poll did not name a specific EELV candidate. The January 2019 Viavoice poll was conducted for La République En Marche!, and did not test any potential candidates other than Benjamin Griveaux. The September 2018 Ifop poll scenario including Cédric Villani was commissioned by CFHJ, owned by a friend of Villani, and the June 2019 Ifop poll was also conducted on behalf of Villani.


2020 French municipal elections, Results
Both La République En Marche! and National Rally lost numerous seats and mayorships. La République En Marche! managed to retain mayorship of Le Havre by the Prime minister Edouard Philippe (he resigned national position on 3 July). National Rally by itself lost about half of its representatives. Louis Aliot became the first National Rally Mayor in Perpignan with a city of more than 100,000 people (although Aliot ran as independent). Les Republicains also suffered loses. Most of them were in large cities, where mayorships were lost to the Greens, although Les Republicains lost seats to the National Rally in small towns.


2020 French municipal elections, Results
The Greens made significant gains in the election. They triumphed in Lyon, Marseille, Nancy, Strasbourg and Bordeaux. Anne Hidalgo and Martine Aubry retained their respective mayoralties of Paris and Lille. Including them, female candidates won in half of France's largest cities. Only 40% of the electorate participated in the second round, a significant drop from the prior local elections, likely due to concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 French municipal elections, Results
Marie Cau was elected the first transgender mayor in France, in Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes.


2020 French municipal elections, Results, Communes with at least 70,000 inhabitants
Incumbent mayors marked with an asterisk (*) are not seeking another term in 2020.


2020 Fresno State Bulldogs football team
The 2020 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented California State University, Fresno in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs were led by first–year head coach Kalen DeBoer and played their games at Bulldog Stadium as a member of the Mountain West Conference.


2020 Fresno State Bulldogs football team
On August 10, 2020, the Mountain West Conference suspended all fall sports competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Fresno State Bulldogs football team
On September 24, 2020, the Mountain West Conference resumed all fall sports competitions.


2020 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Previous season
They finished the 2019 season 4–8 and 2–6 in Mountain West play to finish in a three–way tie in fourth place in the West Division and did not qualify for a bowl game. Head coach Jeff Tedford resigned and was replaced by Kalen DeBoer.


2020 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Fresno State had non-conference games scheduled against Colorado and Texas A&M. They were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Schedule
On November 19, the game vs. San Jose State scheduled for November 21 was canceled because of a positive COVID-19 test and contact tracing within the Fresno State program.


2020 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Schedule
On November 22, the game vs. San Diego State scheduled for November 27 was canceled due to COVID-19 protocols within the Fresno State football program.


2020 Fresno mayoral election
The 2020 Fresno mayoral election was held on March 3, 2020 to elect the mayor of Fresno, California. Republican Jerry Dyer was elected after winning a majority in the primary.


2020 Fresno mayoral election
Incumbent mayor Lee Brand did not run for a second term. It was the first time in the city's history in which an incumbent eligible for re-election chose to retire the seat.


2020 Fresno mayoral election
Municipal elections are officially nonpartisan; candidates' party affiliations do not appear on the ballot. However, a few candidates had, either previously or during their campaigns, publicly affiliated with political parties. Jerry Dyer identified as a Republican, Andrew Janz identified as a Democrat, and Nickolas Wildstar identified as a Libertarian.


2020 Fresno mayoral election, Results
Since Dyer won a majority in the initial round of voting, no runoff needed to be held. If one was required, it would have taken place on November 3, 2020.


2020 Friendship and Solidarity Competition
The 2020 Friendship and Solidarity Competition was an artistic gymnastics competition hosted by the International Gymnastics Federation and held in Tokyo, Japan on November 8, 2020. The competition implemented strict COVID-19 safety protocols that could serve as a foundation for holding the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games slated to begin July 23, 2021.


2020 Friendship and Solidarity Competition, Background
After the COVID-19 pandemic caused the mass majority of competitions in 2020 to be canceled and the 2020 Summer Olympics to be postponed until 2021, the FIG organized this event as a showcase of international camaraderie "at a time when unity has never seemed more important". A primary goal of the competition was to prove that staging a high-profile event in Tokyo is possible in the current context of the ongoing pandemic.


2020 Friendship and Solidarity Competition, Participants
Gymnasts from Japan, China, Russia, and the United States participated in the competition. Each federation was allowed to send eight athletes, 4 men and 4 women, although the United States opted to only send six athletes.


2020 Friendship and Solidarity Competition, Team scores
Only the top 3 scores per apparatus counted towards the team's total score.


2020 Furman Paladins football team
The 2020 Furman Paladins football team represents Furman University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They are led by fourth-year head coach Clay Hendrix and play their home games at Paladin Stadium. They are a member of the Southern Conference.


2020 Furman Paladins football team, Schedule
Furman had a game scheduled against Tennessee, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit
The 2020 G20 Riyadh summit was the  fifteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20). It was scheduled to take place in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, on 21–22 November 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was held virtually.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Participating leaders
South AfricaCyril Ramaphosa, President  2020 Chairperson of the African Union


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Participating leaders
European UnionUrsula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Participating leaders, Invited guests
United Arab Emirates  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister 2020 Chairperson of the Gulf Cooperation Council


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Participating leaders, Invited guests
VietnamNguyễn Xuân Phúc, Prime Minister  2020 Chairperson of Association of Southeast Asian Nations


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Presidency
The G20 Riyadh Summit was chaired by the Saudi King, Salman bin Abdulaziz.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Presidency
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia assumed the G20 Presidency in December 2019, leading up to the Leaders’ Summit to be held in Riyadh on 21–22 November 2020. The Kingdom would guide the work of the G20 under the theme of “Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century for All” and would officially focus on three aims:


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Presidency
Saudi Arabia released a 20 riyal commemorative banknote to mark the G20 presidency.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, First Sherpa meeting
The meeting was chaired by H.E. Dr. Fahad Almubarak, the Saudi Sherpa, who elaborated: “The G20 has a responsibility to the world to overcome current and emerging issues, to tackle global challenges together, and to make the world a better place for all."


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Sideline events
In the sideline of the summit, Saudi Arabia will be organizing preparatory ministerial meetings as well as other meetings of high governmental officials and representatives from the private sector and non-governmental organizations.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Emergency meeting
On 26 March 2020, the G20 members held an emergency summit via video conference, maintaining social distancing amid COVID-19, in order to plan a coordinated global response against the COVID-19 pandemic. Chaired by King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who presided the 2020 summit, the meeting aimed at finding ways to tackle the economic implications of the virus on global economy, with people losing their jobs and incomes due to lockdowns and curfews imposed globally.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Emergency meeting
Human rights organization Amnesty International expressed disappointment at the exclusion of human rights-compliant action plans in the emergency summit. A series of demands such as moving towards a zero-carbon economy, guaranteeing access of information to all, and fully integrated gender perspective plans, were made by Amnesty. In addition, the NGO also demanded the release of pre-trial detainees, where possible, and prisoners of conscience such as Saudi Arabia’s Raif Badawi, Loujain al-Hathloul, and Samar Badawi, to prevent the potential spread of coronavirus in prison populations owing to their low immunity.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Historical background
Saudi Arabia's first participation in the G20 meetings was in 2008 Washington summit. By then and as the world suffered from a global crisis, Saudi Arabia was the tenth largest sovereign wealth fund in the world and the second largest oil reserves. Initially, the Saudi entrance to the G20 was due to its economic importance as an effective pricing force in the energy market. This G20 summit will also be the last for Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and for United States President Donald Trump as he handed power to Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Controversies
On 7 October 2020, the European Parliament released a resolution denouncing the human rights violations of Saudi Arabia. The resolution passed by Member of the European Parliament (MEPs) published highlighting the Kingdom's brutal treatment of the Ethiopian migrants, who were abandoned by the Houthis in Yemen and later detained by Saudi authorities. The MEPs also criticized the country for keeping women's and other human rights defenders in detention, and urged the European Union members to downgrade their diplomatic and institutional representation at the Riyadh G20 Summit.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Controversies
Under the Group of Twenty (G20) Riyadh summit, Saudi Arabia planned on hosting the B20 event, for which it was criticized by human rights groups and pro-democracy activists over the treatment of women in the country. Activists urged diplomats, politicians and blue chip companies like HSBC, MasterCard and PepsiCo., to boycott the business event and said Saudi Arabia's real change-makers are behind bars, continuously facing abuse in prison cells, including electric shocks, flogging and sexual assault.


2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Controversies
The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Dominic Raab, received calls in November 2020 to boycott the G20 summit in Saudi Arabia because of the Kingdom's atrocious human rights record and recent attempts of driving the Bedouin tribe from their land to make way for its upcoming futuristic megacity project, Neom.


2020 GC32 Racing Tour
2020 is the seventh series of the GC32 Racing Tour. The season consists of five acts, returning to Villasimius, Riva del Garda, Lagos, and Muscat. The final venue of the series will be announced in due course.


2020 GC32 Racing Tour, Events
27-31 May: GC32 Riva Cup / Riva del Garda, Italy


2020 GC32 Racing Tour, Events
On March 12, 2020, it was announced that the season opener in Muscat, Oman, had been cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 GC32 Racing Tour, Teams, Alinghi
In 2020, Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi return for a second consecutive year on the GC32 Racing Tour, following on from their overall win of the 2019 season.


2020 GEICO 500
The 2020 GEICO 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on June 22, 2020, at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama. Contested over 191 laps -- extended from 188 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 2.66 mile (4.28 km) superspeedway, it was the 13th race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season.


2020 GEICO 500
The race was originally scheduled to be held on April 26, but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In turn, the race was postponed from June 21 due to inclement weather.


2020 GEICO 500, Report, Background
Talladega Superspeedway, formerly known as Alabama International Motor Speedway, is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. A tri-oval, the track was constructed in 1969 by the International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France family. Talladega is most known for its steep banking. The track currently hosts NASCAR's Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series. Talladega is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66-mile-long (4.28 km) tri-oval like the Daytona International Speedway, which is 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km).


2020 GEICO 500, Report, Background
The GEICO 500 was the first NASCAR event since The Real Heroes 400 in May to admit a limited number of public spectators. Races had been held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the previous week's Dixie Vodka 400 was the first to admit any outside spectators — limited to an invited audience of local members of the U.S. military. Attendance was capped at 5,000 in grandstands and towers, with social distancing and mandatory masking enforced. A limited number of campsites above the back straightaway were also opened. Tickets were being re-issued on a first come first served basis to local residents who had originally purchased tickets to the race before these changes.


2020 GEICO 500, Report, Background, Confederate flag ban, Bubba Wallace noose incident
This was the first race open to spectators after NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate battle flag following a complaint by Bubba Wallace — the only full-time African-American driver in the Cup Series — in light of the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement. On the day of the race, vendors outside of the track sold memorabilia carrying the flag, and a plane towing a banner with the flag and "Defund NASCAR" circled the track; NASCAR officials and Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey condemned the flyover, for which Sons of Confederate Veterans later claimed responsibility.


2020 GEICO 500, Report, Background, Confederate flag ban, Bubba Wallace noose incident
NASCAR reported that a noose had been found inside Wallace's stall, and stated that it would investigate it as a hate crime with the FBI. NASCAR president Steve Phelps threatened that anyone found responsible "will be banned from this sport for life. I don't care who they are, they will not be here." The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division also joined the investigation. As a sign of solidarity, other drivers and crew members pushed Wallace's car down pit road prior to the start of the race (which had been re-scheduled to June 22 due to rain), while "#IStandWithBubba" was painted on the infield grass.


2020 GEICO 500, Report, Background, Confederate flag ban, Bubba Wallace noose incident
On June 23, the FBI concluded that no hate crime targeting Wallace had occurred at the track, stating that the "noose" was a pulldown rope for a door, and had been present at the track since 2019. On June 25, NASCAR released a photo of the rope, and announced that it had investigated the stalls of all other NASCAR facilities — concluding that the pulldown rope in that stall was the only one that had been tied in such a manner.


2020 GEICO 500, Report, Background, Entry list
NOTE:  Garrett Smithley was added as a late addition after owner B. J. McLeod was inserted into the Spire Motorsports car following NASCAR rejecting the team's original plan of having James Davison in the car because he lacked NASCAR superspeedway experience in a situation where practice and qualifying were omitted. Although the Australian has high-speed oval experience in other ACCUS-sanctioned events, NASCAR rejected Davison because he lacked drafting experience in similar cars in regards to the adverse conditions rules in effect after the pandemic.


2020 GEICO 500, Qualifying
Martin Truex Jr. was awarded the pole for the race as determined by a random draw.


2020 GEICO 500, Media, Television
Fox Sports covered their 20th race at the Talladega Superspeedway. Mike Joy and six-time Talladega winner – and all-time restrictor plate race wins record holder – Jeff Gordon covered the race from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte. Jamie Little and Vince Welch handled the pit road duties. Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.


2020 GEICO 500, Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race which was also be simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden and Jeff Striegle called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Dave Moody called the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform inside the backstretch when the field raced down the backstretch. Kurt Becker called the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 4 when the field races through turns 3 and 4. Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.


2020 GP de Plouay
The 2020 GP de Plouay featured as the third round of the 2020 UCI Women's World Tour and was held on 25 August 2020, in Plouay, France. The race was held on the same day as the men's Bretagne Classic, during the 2020 European Road Championships which were also held in Plouay.


2020 GP de Plouay, Teams
176 riders from 18 teams started the race. Each team has a maximum of six riders. 76 riders finished the race within the time limit.


2020 GT & Prototype Challenge
The 2020 GT & Prototype Challenge was the fourth series of the GT & Prototype Challenge. The GT and Superlights classes of the Supercar Challenge were split from the original series to form the new championship.


2020 GT & Prototype Challenge, Regulations
The series entrants are divided over four classes. The GT class, from the Supercar Challenge Super GT class, forms the highest and fastest division. Cars with a 2,8kg per HP or more ratio are allowed to compete. This includes all Group GT3 class cars and specially built GT's such as the Solution F built Volvo S60 and Renault Sport R.S. 01. LMP3 spec cars first raced in the Supercar Challenge Super GT class in 2016. The class forms a separate class within the series open to all 2016 specification LMP3 machinery.


2020 GT & Prototype Challenge, Regulations
Two classes from the Supercar Challenge Superlights class are included in the new series. The fastest of the two is the Group CN class. Group CN specification cars built after 2014 are allowed to compete. The fourth, and slowest, class is the Radical SR3 class. Mainly a Radical SR3 spec class, the class is open to cars with comparable lap times. Also allowed are the Praga R1 and pre-2014 Group CN class cars.


2020 GT Cup Championship
The 2020 GT Cup Championship was the 14th GT Cup Championship, a British sports car championship. The season began on 11 July at Snetterton Circuit and ended on 25 October at Donington Park, after twenty races held over five meetings.


2020 GT Cup Championship, Entry List
Classes:GTO: Open specification carsGT3: GT3 carsGTA: Cup (Ginetta G55 Supercup) carsGTB: GT Cup (Porsche 991 GT3 Cup Gen 1, Marcos Mantis) carsGTC: GT Cup (Porsche 991 GT3 Cup Gen 2, Ferrari Challenge) carsGTH: GT4 cars


2020 GT Cup Championship, Results, Overall championship standings
‡ – Race 4 at Silverstone was stopped after 5 laps due to heavy rain and half points were awarded.


2020 GT Cup Championship, Results, Class championship standings
‡ – Race 4 at Silverstone was stopped after 5 laps due to heavy rain and half points were awarded.


2020 GT Cup Open Europe
The 2020 GT Cup Open Europe is the second season of the GT Cup Open Europe, the grand tourer-style sports car racing series founded by the Spanish GT Sport Organización. It began on 8 August at the Hungaroring and finished on 1 November at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya after five double-header meetings.


2020 GT Cup Open Europe, Championship standings, Points systems
Points are awarded to the top 10 (Overall) or top 6 (Am, Pro- Am, Teams) classified finishers. If less than 6 participants start the race or if less than 75% of the original race distance is completed, half points are awarded. At the end of the season, the lowest race score is dropped; however, the dropped race cannot be the result of a disqualification or race ban.


2020 GT Cup Open Europe, Championship standings, Teams' Championship
Only the highest two finishing cars from a team count towards the Teams' Championship


2020 GT Sports Club America
The 2020 GT Sports Club America is the inaugural season of the SRO Motorsports Group's GT Sports Club America, an auto racing series for grand tourer cars. GT Sports Club America is a championship for Bronze, Titanium and Iron drivers only. The Titanium categorisation is within the Bronze category, for drivers between the age of 50 and 59. The Iron categorisation is within the Bronze category, for drivers over the age of 60. The races are contested with GT2-spec and GT3-spec cars. The season began on 11 July at Virginia and will end on 3 October at Indianapolis.


2020 GT Sports Club America, Calendar
At the annual press conference during the 2019 24 Hours of Spa on 26 July, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the 2020 calendar.


2020 GT Sports Club America, Calendar
The season opening round at Virginia was moved from 6–7 June to 11–12 July.


2020 GT Sports Club America, Championship standings
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points.


2020 GT Sports Club Europe
The 2020 GT Sports Club Europe is the sixth season of the SRO Motorsports Group's GT Sports Club, an auto racing series for grand tourer cars. The GT Sports Club is a championship for Bronze level drivers only, with two additional sub-classes based on age, Titanium and Iron, in order to separate the potential of using higher-level drivers who are often in amateur classes based on their age. The Titanium categorisation for drivers between the age of 50 and 59. The Iron categorisation for drivers over the age of 60 (meaning all drivers who would be FIA Platinum or Gold but are 60 or older).


2020 GT Sports Club Europe, Calendar
An initial calendar was released on 28 September at an SRO Motorsports Group press conference ahead of the 2019 Barcelona 3 Hours. Which was later optimised so that GT2 and GT3 cars would run in the same races rather than having split championships Subsequently, due to the spread of COVID-19 in Italy, SRO Motorsports Group cancelled the Monza round and replaced it with a round at Imola, while the round at Misano was also removed. The COVID-19 pandemic subsequently necessitated a revised claendar being released.


2020 GT World Challenge America
The 2020 GT World Challenge America powered by AWS is the fourteenth season of the United States Auto Club's GT World Challenge America, the third season under ownership of the SRO Motorsports Group and the first season without Blancpain sponsorship. The season began on 7 March in Austin and will end on 4 October at Indianapolis.


2020 GT World Challenge America, Calendar
At the annual press conference during the 2019 24 Hours of Spa on 26 July, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the first draft of the 2020 calendar with Las Vegas being dropped from the schedule in favor of Indianapolis. Austin was removed from the provisional calendar on 25 October, before it would return on 8 November after extensive discussions with team owners and stakeholders. The round at Indianapolis became a non-points paying event.


2020 GT World Challenge America, Calendar
The round at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park was cancelled. The round at Virginia was moved from 6–7 June to 11–12 July. The round at Indianapolis is back to being a points paying event to replace the cancelled rounds at CTMP with the first three hours of the Indianapolis 8 Hour Intercontinental GT race counting towards the championship.


2020 GT World Challenge America, Entry list
The Pro Cup class was eliminated from the series for this season.


2020 GT World Challenge America, Points system
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate for a minimum of 40 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe
The 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS was the seventh season of the GT World Challenge Europe and the first after title sponsor Blancpain withdrew sponsorship. The season began on 25 July at Imola and ended on 15 November at Circuit Paul Ricard.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe
This season featured eight rounds: four Endurance Cup rounds and four Sprint Cup rounds.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe, Championship standings
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. The pole-sitter also receives one point and entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe, Championship standings
Points are awarded after six hours, after twelve hours and at the finish.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
The 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup was the tenth season of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and the first after title sponsor Blancpain withdrew support.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, Calendar
The season began on 19 July at Imola and ended on 15 November at Paul Ricard. The season featured four rounds, with one race lasting for a duration of three hours, the Circuit Paul Ricard 1000 km , the 6 Hours of Nürburgring lasting for a duration of six hours and the 24 Hours of Spa events.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, Championship standings
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. The pole-sitter also receives one point and entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, Championship standings
Points are awarded after six hours, after twelve hours and at the finish.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
The 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup was the eighth season of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup following on from the demise of the SRO Motorsports Group's FIA GT1 World Championship (an auto racing series for grand tourer cars), the first after title sponsor Blancpain withdrew sponsorship. The season will begin on 9 August at Misano World Circuit and will end on 11 October at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. This season the GT Sports Club Europe will be brought into the GT World Challenge Europe, meaning the Bronze-focused GT3 and GT2 series will share grids with the headlining series.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup, Calendar
The season will begin on 9 August at Misano and will end on 11 October at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.


2020 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup, Championship standings
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. The pole-sitter also receives one point and entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.


2020 GT4 America Series
The 2020 Pirelli GT4 America Series is the second season of the GT4 America Series. The series is split into a Sprint series, which features 50-minute races with one driver per car, and a SprintX series, which features one-hour races with two drivers per car and a mandatory driver change during Pit stops. The season begins on 7 March at Circuit of the Americas and ends on 3 October at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


2020 GT4 America Series, Calendar
The final calendar was announced on 12 November 2019Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SprintX and Sprint rounds at St. Petersburg and Long Beach were cancelled and replaced with tripleheaders at Virginia International Raceway and Sonoma Raceway.


2020 GT4 America Series, Entry list, Sprint
Note: A car marked with STP is entered only for the St. Petersburg makeup races at VIR.


2020 GT4 America Series, Championship standings
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any SprintX race.


2020 GT4 European Series
The 2020 GT4 European Series is the thirteenth season of the GT4 European Series, a sports car championship organised by Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO). The season will begin at Imola on 25 July and will end at the Circuit Paul Ricard on 15 November.


2020 GT4 European Series, Calendar
A 2020 calendar was announced on 29 July 2019 at SRO's annual press conference at the 2019 24 Hours of Spa. However, as a result of the coronavirus crisis SRO had to revise its schedule and an updated calendar was released on 15 May 2020.


2020 GT4 European Series, Championship standings
Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.


2020 GT4 European Series, Championship standings, Teams' championship
The two highest-scoring cars per Team will score points. Any other cars entered by that team will not score points towards the team title. A car scores points depending on the category it is entered in (Silver, Pro-Am or Am). The number of points awarded in each category is dependent on the number of cars participating in that class.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs
The 2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) began on 1 March 2020, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences, following the conclusion of the 2019–20 KHL regular season. The playoffs were scheduled to finish no later than 25 April 2020.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the second round of the playoffs were initially delayed, but on 25 March 2020, the playoffs were called off.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
After the regular season, the standard 16 teams qualified for the playoffs.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds, Western Conference
The regular season winners and Continental Cup winners were CSKA Moscow with 94 points.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds, Eastern Conference
Ak Bars Kazan were the Eastern Conference regular season winners with 93 points.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff bracket
In each round, the highest remaining seed in each conference is matched against the lowest remaining seed. The higher-seeded team is awarded home ice advantage. In the Gagarin Cup Finals, home ice is determined based on regular season points. Each best-of-seven series follows a 2–2–1–1–1 format: the higher-seeded team plays at home for games one and two (and games five and seven, if necessary), and the lower-seeded team is at home for games three and four (and game six, if necessary).


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff bracket
The 2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs started on 1 March 2020, and were scheduled to finish no later than 25 April 2020. The top eight teams from each of the twelve-team conferences qualified for the playoffs.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff bracket
On 25 March 2020, the remaining scheduled games were cancelled. The bracket below shows the position of each team at the time of the cancellation of the playoffs.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (1) Ak Bars Kazan vs. (8) Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
Ak Bars Kazan finished first in the Eastern Conference earning 93 points, winning their second Eastern Conference title in three years. Their opponents and Kharlamov Division rivals Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk finished as the Eastern Conference's eighth seed, earning 64 points. The teams had met once previously in the playoffs with Ak Bars Kazan sweeping the first round series in 2013 – having finished as the number 1 and 8 seeds respectively in the 2012–13 season. Having played four times during the season, both teams won two games each.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Barys Nur-Sultan vs. (7) Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Barys Nur-Sultan finished second in the Eastern Conference earning 84 points, winning their second consecutive Chernyshev Division title. Their opponents Metallurg Magnitogorsk finished as the Eastern Conference's seventh seed, earning 65 points. The teams had met twice previously in the playoffs with Metallurg Magnitogorsk winning both previous series – a game 7 decider in the first round in 2012, and a second round sweep in 2017. Barys Nur-Sultan won three out of the four games to be held between the teams during the 2019–20 season.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Avangard Omsk vs. (6) Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Avangard Omsk finished third in the Eastern Conference earning 83 points. Their opponents and Chernyshev Division rivals Salavat Yulaev Ufa finished as the Eastern Conference's sixth seed, earning 68 points. The teams had met four times previously in the playoffs – two wins apiece – with this meeting being the third consecutive year in which the teams had met one another. Avangard Omsk won all four games to be held between the teams during the 2019–20 season.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg vs. (5) Sibir Novosibirsk
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg finished fourth in the Eastern Conference earning 78 points. Their opponents and Kharlamov Division rivals Sibir Novosibirsk finished as the Eastern Conference's fifth seed, earning 74 points. This was the first playoff meeting between the two teams, and Sibir Novosibirsk made the playoffs for the first time since 2016. Sibir Novosibirsk won three out of the four games to be held between the teams during the 2019–20 season, two of which came in overtime.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (1) CSKA Moscow vs. (8) Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
CSKA Moscow finished first in the Western Conference earning 94 points, winning their second consecutive Western Conference title. Their opponents and Tarasov Division rivals Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod finished as the Western Conference's eighth seed, earning 64 points. The teams had met once previously in the playoffs with CSKA Moscow winning the second round series, 4–1, in 2016. CSKA Moscow won three out of the four games to be held between the teams during the 2019–20 season, with Torpedo's lone success coming in an overtime game.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) SKA Saint Petersburg vs. (7) Vityaz Podolsk
SKA Saint Petersburg finished second in the Western Conference earning 93 points, winning their fourth consecutive Bobrov Division title. Their opponents Vityaz Podolsk finished as the Western Conference's seventh seed, earning 65 points. The teams had met once previously in the playoffs with SKA Saint Petersburg sweeping the first round series in 2017 – having finished as the number 2 and 7 seeds respectively in the 2016–17 season. In their two meetings during the 2019–20 season, SKA Saint Petersburg recorded an overtime victory and Vityaz Podolsk won the other game 4–2.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (3) Jokerit vs. (6) Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Jokerit finished third in the Western Conference earning 84 points. Their opponents Lokomotiv Yaroslavl finished as the Western Conference's sixth seed, earning 73 points. This was the first playoff meeting between the two teams; the teams played each other six times during the 2019–20 season, with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl winning four of the games.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (4) Dynamo Moscow vs. (5) Spartak Moscow
Dynamo Moscow finished fourth in the Western Conference earning 82 points. Their cross-city opponents and Bobrov Division rivals Spartak Moscow finished as the Western Conference's fifth seed, earning 77 points. The teams had met once previously in the playoffs with Spartak Moscow winning their first round series in 2010. Dynamo Moscow won all four games to be held between the teams during the 2019–20 season.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Scoring leaders
The following players led the league in points, at the cancellation of the season on 25 March 2020. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.


2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders
The following goaltenders led the league in goals against average, at the cancellation of the season on 25 March 2020.


2020 Galician regional election
The 2020 Galician regional election was on Sunday, 12 July 2020, to elect the 11th Parliament of the autonomous community of Galicia. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was initially scheduled for 5 April 2020 but was postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was held simultaneously with a regional election in the Basque Country.


2020 Galician regional election
In early February 2020, concerns about a possible snap election in the Basque Country to be called for 5 April raised speculation on whether regional president Alberto Núñez Feijóo would be willing to advance the Galician regional election to be held concurrently with the Basque one, as had happened in 2009, 2012 and 2016, despite Feijóo's earlier claims that his will was against bringing about a premature end to the legislature.


2020 Galician regional election
On 10 February, Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu's confirmation of a Basque election for 5 April prompted Feijóo to precipitate the end of the Galician legislature and announce a regional election for the same day. However, on 16 March it was announced that the vote would be postponed for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, shortly after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's declaration of a nationwide lockdown in the country starting on the previous day.


2020 Galician regional election
Feijóo's ruling People's Party (PP) maintained its dominance at the regional level, maintaining its vote share and seat count from the 2016 election. The Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) picked up the vast majority of losses from Galicia in Common–Renewal–Tides (GeC–AM), the successor alliance to En Marea after several party splits, seeing their results spike by over 15% to second place of the vote and seeing their seat count increase by 13 to their best result since 1997. The Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE) remained in third place, neither gaining nor losing any seats compared to the previous election.


2020 Galician regional election
Support for GeC–AM plummeted in comparison to En Marea's results in 2016, failing to cross the electoral threshold and losing all 14 of the seats they held prior to the vote. The far-right Vox, which had seen a rise in support in the region during the November 2019 general election, failed to cross the electoral threshold and suffered from tactical voting to Feijóo's PP.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Parliament of Galicia was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Galicia, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the regional Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system
Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in Galicia and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Galicians abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado). The 75 members of the Parliament of Galicia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 10 seats and the remaining 35 being distributed in proportion to their populations.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
The term of the Parliament of Galicia expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of Galicia (DOG), with election day taking place between the fifty-fourth and the sixtieth day from publication. The previous election was held on 25 September 2016, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 25 September 2020. The election decree was required to be published in the DOG no later than 1 September 2020, with the election taking place up to the sixtieth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Parliament on Saturday, 30 October 2020.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament and call a snap election, provided that it did not occur before one year had elapsed since a previous dissolution under this procedure. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
The decision of Catalan president Quim Torra on 29 January 2020 to announce a snap Catalan regional election to be held at some point throughout 2020 was said to have raised concerns within the Basque government of Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, whose party, the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), sought to prevent the next Basque regional election—which was due by autumn of 2020 at the latest—from being held simultaneously to prevent any interference from the Catalan political debate into the Basque campaign.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
This in turn increased pressure on Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo to unveil the Galician election date, with speculation mounting on whether he would coordinate the electoral timing with that of a hypothetical snap Basque election—as had happened in 2009, 2012 and 2016—or would let the legislature reach its natural end, thus bringing the election to the autumn of 2020.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
Asked on the issue on 7 February, Feijóo did not rule out a simultaneous call with the Basque election, but vindicated that the autonomy of adopting such a decision was "his" and that he would not be discussing hypothetical scenarios—on the possibility of Urkullu announcing a snap election within the next few days—until they happened. La Vanguardia reported on 9 February that Feijóo could be interested in waiting for an autumn election to be held concurrently with the Catalan one, at a time when he had not yet revealed whether he would be running for a fourth time in office.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
On 10 February, Urkullu confirmed the Basque election for 5 April, with Feijóo commenting that he would be making a choice on the date of the Galician election "immediately" but that it would not be affected by Urkullu's decision. In response to the Basque announcement, Feijóo summoned his government to an urgency meeting later in the same day and decided to trigger a snap election to be held simultaneously on 5 April.


2020 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the election's original date was suspended on 16 March, with it being rescheduled for 12 July 2020 on 18 May after the easing of virus spreading conditions and a reduction in the infection rate, resulting in the lockdown established by the state of alarm lasting from 15 March to 21 June.


2020 Galician regional election, Background
A vote of no confidence in June 2018 had seen the downfall of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, of Galician descent, and his succession by Pedro Sánchez from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). After eight convoluted months in which the PSOE had led a very precarious minority government, Sánchez called a general election for 28 April 2019, in which the People's Party (PP) did not come out in top place in Galicia for the first time in history, with the party having won all previous elections—general, local, European and regional—since its inception in 1989.


2020 Galician regional election, Background
The local and European Parliament elections held on 26 May 2019 saw the PSOE's local branch, the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG), sweeping across the region and winning control of all main Galician cities but Pontevedra and Ourense: A Coruña, Ferrol, Lugo, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo, the latter seeing an humiliating defeat for Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo after his local candidate scored a bare 13% of the vote to the PSdeG of incumbent mayor Abel Caballero's 67%. The electoral victories of 2019 and the weaknesses of the ruling PP after eleven years in the Xunta de Galicia prompted prospects of the PSdeG being returned to the regional government under the leadership of Gonzalo Caballero, nephew of Vigo's mayor.


2020 Galician regional election, Background
Concurrently, the political space held by the En Marea party had broke up after internal disputes. In late 2018, a crisis concerning the election of a new party leadership resulted in a split between members supporting Luis Villares and En Marea's founding member parties, Podemos, Renewal–Nationalist Brotherhood (Anova) and United Left (EU). Villares was elected as new En Marea leader on 24 December 2018 amid accusations of fraud and vote rigging, prompting Podemos, Anova and EU to withdraw from En Marea, dubbing it as a "failed" political project.


2020 Galician regional election, Background
Podemos and EU would contest both the April and the November 2019 general elections under the En Común–Unidas Podemos brand, forming the Galicia en Común sub-group within Unidas Podemos in the Congress of Deputies. In September 2019, legislators from Podemos, Anova and EU formed the Grupo Común da Esquerda in the Parliament of Galicia, forcing En Marea loyalists into the Mixed Group.


2020 Galician regional election, Parliamentary composition
The Parliament of Galicia was officially dissolved on 11 February 2020, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official Journal of Galicia. The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution.


2020 Galician regional election, Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.


2020 Galician regional election, Parties and candidates
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:


2020 Galician regional election, Parties and candidates
On 11 February Gonzalo Pérez Jácome, leader of the Ourensan Democracy (DO) party—which secured 4.4% of the vote in the Ourense province in the 2016 election—and mayor of Ourense with PP support, announced that he would be voting for Feijóo amid speculation that DO would be joining PP's electoral lists ahead of the regional election. An electoral alliance with Citizens was proposed by Cs spokesperson Inés Arrimadas but was rejected by Feijóo.


2020 Galician regional election, Parties and candidates
En Marea leader Luis Villares announced on 19 February his farewell from politics and his return to his judge post, casting doubt about En Marea's fate in the election ahead and whether the party would end up running in the election or withdrawing from the electoral contest. After the election was suspended and rescheduled for 12 July, the party announced that it would be contesting within the Marea Galeguista alliance together with Commitment to Galicia (CxG) and the Galicianist Party (PG).


2020 Galician regional election, Timetable
The key dates are listed below (all times are CET):