Case Study: The French Tennis Federation (FFT) achieves fast global website performance and ticketing traffic‑spike resilience with CDNetworks

The French Tennis Federation and French Open ticketing websites seamlessly handle traffic spikes thanks to CDNetworks

The French Tennis Federation (FFT), a non-profit that promotes tennis in France and operates fft.fr and the French Open ticketing site, faced massive, global traffic spikes when tickets go on sale—about 95% of seats sell on the first day. FFT needed fast, worldwide page loads and a system able to absorb sharp surges while keeping the site responsive for fans in markets like Russia, China, and the US.

FFT migrated static assets (images, JavaScript, PDFs and annual ticketing media) to CDNetworks’ CDN, configured TTLs to work with Drupal, and performs a cache refresh before ticket sales. The result: no bottlenecks, fast response times for international users, reliable capacity for traffic surges, and a largely self‑operating CDN that reduced load on FFT’s servers and IT team.

The French Tennis Federation (FFT)

Franck Labat

Head of IT