That dark red is not a citrus colour. It is the terracotta of a clay court, and it makes this Schweppes Agrumes 330ml can from Belgium the more literal half of the pair of Roland-Garros limited editions released there in 2026. Agrumes is simply French for citrus, and the drink is flavoured with orange, grapefruit, lime and mandarin.

The two cans took opposite design routes within the same market, which is the genuinely interesting thing about them. The Lemon can stayed loyal to the drink, running yellow and green for lemon and lime. This one abandons flavour colour entirely and adopts the tournament instead, wrapping the body in clay red with orange accents, the tennis ball and the official Roland-Garros logo. Put them side by side and you can see a design team offering the same client two answers to the same brief. Italy, incidentally, went the same way as this can, blending Schweppes yellow into clay red on a Tonic variant.

The partnership behind them was announced on 28 January 2026 by Suntory Beverage and Food Europe, making Schweppes an official supplier of Roland-Garros for three years through to 2028, with co-branded cans produced across the European markets where Suntory holds the licence. Belgium is one of twenty-two such territories.

Roland-Garros is the only Grand Slam played on clay, first held in 1891 and staged at its Paris stadium since 1928. It drew a record 687,249 spectators in 2025 and reached 220 countries on television. Schweppes sits in the official supplier tier alongside Lavazza, Orange, Stella Artois, Moët Hennessy, Magnum and JCDecaux. The brand brings the longest history in the room: Johann Jacob Schweppe worked out a practical way to carbonate water in Geneva in 1783 and moved the business to London in 1792.

Inside is a sparkling citrus soft drink. It was sold in Belgium as a matched pair with the lemon version carrying the same Roland-Garros livery, which is also in the archive.