If Britain has Wimbledon, France has Roland Garros. The British Wimbledon tennis tournament is held in the city of Wimbledon. The French Open tennis tournament takes place at the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris. The official name of the French Open is ‘Les Internationaux de France de Roland Garros’ or ‘Tournoi de Roland-Garros’. Since the name is long, it is usually shortened to ‘Roland-Garros’ or ‘RG’. In Korea, it is more often referred to as the ‘French Open’.
Roland Garros was named after a famous French pilot during World War I. The French Open started in 1891. Originally, it was a club member-level competition for only French residents to participate, but from 1925 foreign players were allowed to participate, and the scale increased. Opened in 1928, Roland Garros was created to honor France’s success in tennis, following France’s victory in the Davis Cup the previous year. At the time, Émile Lecheeur, president of the French Tennis Association, requested that the stadium be named after his카지노사이트 heroic classmate Roland Garros, who died during World War I in 1918. .
Roland Garros had nothing to do with tennis. He is said to have played rugby and soccer as a child. At the age of 21 he fell in love with airplanes and in 1913 he made the world’s first trans-Mediterranean flight. During World War I, he invented an innovative way to mount machine guns on airplanes. He was taken prisoner in 1915, escaped three years later, but returned to combat despite ill health. This decision was no surprise, given that the propellers of his planes had the phrase ‘Victory belongs to the most persevering’. He died in battle on October 5, 1918.
Roland Garros is famous for its major tournaments, which are played on clay courts with hard soil. In the meantime, he has won the French Open 13 times by Rafael Nadal of Spain, five of them in a row, so he has the nickname ‘The Dirt God’. Chris Evert of the United States is considered the most successful player in women’s singles, having won seven titles.