Stade Roland Garros (; "Roland Garros Stadium") is a complex of tennis courts, including stadiums, located in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
that hosts the
French Open
The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ...
. That tournament, also known as ''Roland Garros'', is a
Grand Slam
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tennis championship played annually in late May and early June. The complex is named after
Roland Garros (1888–1918), a pioneering French
aviator
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, and was constructed in 1928 to host France's first defence of the
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...
.The 13.5-hectare (34-acre) complex contains twenty courts, including three large-capacity stadiums; ''Les Jardins de Roland Garros'', a large restaurant and bar complex; ''Le Village'', the press and VIP area; France's National Training Centre (CNE); and the
Tenniseum
The Tenniseum, also known as the Musée du Tennis or the Musée de Roland-Garros, is a tennis museum located in the Stade Roland Garros in the 16th arrondissement at 2, avenue Gordon-Bennett, Paris, France. It is open daily except Mondays; an admis ...
, a bilingual, multimedia museum of the history of tennis.
Dedication
The facility is named after
Roland Garros, a pilot who completed the first solo flight across the
Mediterranean Sea
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, engineer (inventor of the first forward-firing aircraft machine gun), and
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
hero who shot down four enemy aircraft (though popularly believed to be five). Garros was killed in aerial combat in October 1918.
History
![Davis Cup Roland Garros trim](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Davis_Cup_Roland_Garros_trim.jpg)
France was an important power in tennis during the first half of the 20th century due to the dominance of
Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (; 24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player. She was the inaugural world No. 1 from 1921 to 1926, winning eight Grand Slam titles in singles and twenty-one in total. She was also a four-time World ...
during the 1910s and 1920s, and ''les Quatre Mousquetaires'' ("the Four Musketeers")—
Jacques "Toto" Brugnon,
Jean Borotra
Jean Laurent Robert Borotra (, ; 13 August 1898 – 17 July 1994) was a French tennis champion. He was one of the "The Four Musketeers (tennis), Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra wa ...
(the "Bouncing Basque"),
Henri Cochet
Henri Jean Cochet (; 14 December 1901 – 1 April 1987) was a French tennis player. He was a world No. 1 ranked player, and a member of the famous " Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Born in ...
(the "Magician"), and
René Lacoste
Jean René Lacoste was a French people, French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" because of how he dealt with his opponents; he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste polo shirt, tennis shirt, which h ...
(the "Crocodile")—in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1927, France defeated the United States to win the
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...
, due largely to the Musketeers' efforts. Stade Roland Garros was constructed as a venue for France's successful defense the following year.
[A Visit to Roland Garros]
Colleen's Paris
Retrieved 2010-08-16. France retained the Cup until 1933, again largely because of the Musketeers. A monument to France's six Cup championships stands at the center of ''Place des Mousquetaires'', a circular courtyard near the venue's entrance.
In October 1939, shortly after the outbreak of
World War II
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, the facility was used as a detention centre where "indésirables"—mostly Hungarians, Russians, Italians, Poles, and citizens suspected of being communists—were held pending imprisonment.
Journalist and former communist
Arthur Koestler
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reported that at the time of his detention, posters advertising the last match prior to the outbreak of war, between Cochet and Borotra, were still in place.
Playing surface
While the Stade Roland Garros surface is invariably characterized as "red clay", the courts are in fact surfaced with white limestone covered with a few millimeters of powdered red brick dust. Beneath the layer of porous limestone is of volcanic rock, followed by of sand, all of which rests on a slab of concrete. Crushed brick is pressed onto the limestone surface with rollers, then drenched in water. The process is repeated several times until a thin, compact layer coats each court. The crushed brick is deep enough to allow footprints and ball marks, but shallow enough to avoid making the court spongy or slippery. In tournament situations workers smooth the surface before matches and between sets by dragging rectangular lengths of chain-link across it. The red brick dust is replenished as needed (daily during major tournaments).
The surface was a state-of-the art solution, in 1928, to the biggest problem with natural clay courts: poor drainage. At the time it was not unusual for clay surfaces to be unplayable for two to three days after even short periods of precipitation. The limestone/crushed brick combination, originally developed in Great Britain, played and looked similar to clay without clay's drainage issues, thus rendering natural clay obsolete as a tennis court surface. Since then a multitude of other "fast-dry" and synthetic clay surfaces have been developed. Courts surfaced with these materials play much like natural clay surfaces and are collectively classified as "clay courts", despite the fact that few if any true clay courts have been built for almost a century. The diversity in composition of various "clay" surfaces around the world explains the extraordinary variability in their playing characteristics. “All clay courts are different”,
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, Williams has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon and two at the US Open. She is ...
has said. “None play the same.
oland Garrosplays the best”.
Stadium courts
Court Philippe Chatrier
![Roland Garros Stadium in 2007](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Roland_Garros_Stadium_in_2007.jpg)
Court
Philippe Chatrier
Philippe Chatrier (; 2 February 1928 – 22 June 2000) was a French tennis player. After his playing career ended, he became a journalist, and was then involved in sports administration. He was president of the French Tennis Federation for 20 ye ...
was built in 1928 as Stade Roland Garros's centerpiece and remains its principal venue. It seats
15,225 spectators as of a 2019 renovation. The stadium was known simply as "Court Central" until 2001, when it was renamed for the long-time president of the
Fédération Française de Tennis
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(FFT) who helped restore tennis as a
Summer Olympics
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sport in 1988.
The four main spectator grandstands are named for ''les Quatre Mousquetaires''—Brugnon, Borotra, Cochet, and Lacoste—in honor of their Davis Cup success, which prompted construction of the facility, and the stadium.
As a further tribute, the trophy awarded each year to the French Open men's singles champion is known as ''
La Coupe des Mousquetaires.''
After the completion of the
2018 tournament, the stadium was demolished down to its foundations and rebuilt with steeper grandstands in time for the
2019 tournament. A retractable roof and floodlights were added in time for the
2020 tournament, which was delayed to September of that year due to the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Court Suzanne Lenglen
![Suzanne Lenglen Court, Roland Garros, 2 June 2019](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Suzanne_Lenglen_Court%2C_Roland_Garros%2C_2_June_2019.jpg)
Built in 1994 and originally designated "Court A", Court
Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (; 24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player. She was the inaugural world No. 1 from 1921 to 1926, winning eight Grand Slam titles in singles and twenty-one in total. She was also a four-time World ...
is the secondary stadium with a capacity of 10,068 spectators. Its namesake, an international celebrity and the first true star of women's tennis, won 31 major tournaments, including six French Open titles and six
Wimbledon
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championships, between 1914 and 1926. Known as'' La Divine'' ("Divine One") and ''La Grand Dame'' ("Great Lady") of French tennis, she also won two
Olympic gold medal
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s in
Antwerp
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bas relief
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of Lenglen by the Italian sculptor Vito Tongiani stands over the east tunnel-entrance to the stadium. The trophy awarded each year to the French Open women's singles champion is named ''La Coupe Suzanne Lenglen'' in her honor. The court has an underground irrigation system, the first of its kind, to control moisture levels within its surface.
[Stade Roland Garros Venues]
rolandgarros.com
Retrieved 2010-08-17.
In 1994, the walkway between Court Chatrier and Court Lenglen was named ''Allée
Marcel Bernard
Marcel Bernard (; 18 May 1914 – 29 April 1994) was a French tennis player. He is best remembered for having won the French Championships in 1946 (reaching the semifinals a further three times). Bernard initially intended to play only in the dou ...
'', in honor of the 1940s-era French champion who died that year.
Court Simonne Mathieu
![Court Simonne Mathieu](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Court_Simonne_Mathieu.jpg)
Stade Roland Garros's new 5,000-seat tertiary venue was completed in March 2019 on the grounds of the
Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil
The Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil () is a botanical garden set within a major greenhouse complex located at the southern edge of the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 16th arrondissement, with entry at 1 avenue Gordon-Bennett, P ...
. Its
namesake
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was the
1938
Events
January
* January 1
** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
and
1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
** Third Reich
*** Jews are forbidden to ...
women's singles champion who is also remembered as a leader of the
French Resistance
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during the Second World War.
The court was constructed four meters below ground level with greenhouses on all four sides. It was built to replace Court 1, which was demolished.
Court 1
![Court n°1, Roland Garros (4280166208)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Court_n%C2%B01%2C_Roland_Garros_%284280166208%29.jpg)
Court 1, once the facility's tertiary venue and nicknamed the "Bullring" because of its circular shape, was demolished in 2019. Its architect,
Jean Lovera, a former French junior champion, designed the 3,800-seat structure as a deliberate contrast to the adjacent, angular Court Philippe Chatrier. Built in 1980, the Bullring was a favorite among serious tennis fans because of its relatively small size and feeling of close proximity to the action. An unusual design feature was its press seating in the first row at court level behind the south baseline.
[Clarey, Christophe]
"At Roland Garros, an Olé! for the Bullring"
''New York Times'', 29 May 2010
Court 1 was the scene of several memorable French Open upsets, such as unseeded
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten (; born 10 September 1976) is a Brazilian former world No. 1 tennis player. He won the French Open singles title three times ( 1997, 2000, and 2001), and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. During his career he ...
's third-round victory over fifth-seeded former champion
Thomas Muster
Thomas Muster (born 2 October 1967) is an Austrian former world No. 1 tennis player. One of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s, he won the 1995 French Open and at his peak was called "The King of Clay". In addition, he won eig ...
in 1997, on his way to his first of three Open titles; and third-seeded
Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (; born 16 May 1970) is an Argentine-Italian former professional tennis player. A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 ...
's defeat — after a 6–1, 5–1 lead and five match points — to
Mary Joe Fernandez
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in the
1993 quarterfinals. It was also the site of
Marat Safin
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's famous "dropped pants" match against
Félix Mantilla in 2004.
Demolition of Court 1 began shortly after conclusion of the
2019 tournament and inauguration of the new tertiary venue, Court Simonne Mathieu. In its place, a greatly enlarged ''Place des Mousquetaires'' was constructed, where spectators can watch matches on a large video screen.
Tenniseum
Known officially as the Museum of the French Federation of Tennis, the Tenniseum was designed by the French architect Bruno Moinard and opened in May 2003. It is housed in a former groundsman's cottage, and comprises a multimedia center, media library, and permanent and temporary exhibits dedicated to the history of tennis in general, and the French Open in particular.
Permanent exhibits include a display of the French Open perpetual trophies, including ''La Coupe des Mousquetaires'' and ''La Coupe Suzanne Lenglen''; a narrative and photographic history of Stade Roland Garros; displays documenting the evolution of tennis attire through the years; a comprehensive collection of tennis racquets dating back to the mid-19th century; and a large exhibition of tennis-related photographs and paintings.
![French Tennis Federation Museum, Roland Garros, Paris 03](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/French_Tennis_Federation_Museum%2C_Roland_Garros%2C_Paris_03.jpg)
The media library houses a diverse collection of documents, posters, books, and magazines, as well as a database of tennis information, statistics, trivia, and match summaries of all French Open tournament matches since 1928. The bilingual (French/English) multimedia center contains over 4,000 hours of digitized video including documentaries, interviews with many of the sport's legendary players, and film archives dating from 1897 to the present. Tours are conducted daily. (Two per day, at 11:00am and 3:00pm, are in English.) During the French Open the normal entry fee is waived for tournament ticket-holders.
Expansion project
Original plans
![Nadal photographié](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Nadal_photographi%C3%A9.jpg)
In 2009 the FFT announced that it had commissioned the French architect Marc Mimram to design a significant expansion of Stade Roland Garros. On the current property, the proposal called for the addition of lights and a
retractable roof
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over Court Philippe Chatrier. At the nearby Georges Hébert municipal recreation area, east of Stade Roland Garros at Porte d'Auteuil, a fourth stadium was planned with a retractable roof and 14,600 seating capacity, along with two smaller show courts with seating for 1,500 and 750.
In 2010, faced with opposition to the proposed expansion from factions within the Paris City Council, the FFT announced that it was considering an alternate plan to move the French Open to a new, 55-court venue outside of Paris city limits. The three sites under consideration were
Marne-la-Vallée
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Disneyland Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park, Val d'Europe, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, ESIEE Paris, and École des Ponts ParisTech are located in Marne-la-Vallée.
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, the northern Paris suburb of
Gonesse
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The commune lies immediately north of Le Bourget Airport, and it is ...
, and a vacant army base near
Versailles
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. Amid charges of bluffing and
brinkmanship
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, a spokesman explained that because Stade Roland Garros was less than half the size of the other three Grand Slam venues and had no covered courts, the French Open was at risk of losing its Grand Slam status to
Madrid
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—which has a long clay court tradition and larger facilities—or the
Gulf countries
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.
In February 2011, the FFT voted to keep the tournament at Stade Roland Garros, citing the prohibitive expense (
$630 million to $1 billion) of building a new venue from scratch versus a projected $370 million to carry out the proposed expansion. Further details of the plan were announced in May 2013, including a complete rebuild of the Chatrier court on its existing foundations in addition to the new roof and lights, and a larger ''Place des Mousquetaires'' in the area occupied by Court 1. The new stadium at Porte d'Auteuil would be built below ground level, with greenhouses surrounding it on all four sides. Project deadlines were pushed back from 2016 to 2018. Local residents, wildlife enthusiasts and municipal authorities continued to voice opposition to the plan, which would increase the Stade Roland Garros grounds from 21 acres (8.5 hectares) to about 33.8 acres (13.5 hectares).
Environmental concerns and delays
In February 2015 the
Ministry of Ecology
The Ministry of Ecological Transition (French: ''Ministère de la Transition écologique''), commonly just referred to as Ministry of Ecology, is a department of the Government of France. It is responsible for preparing and implementing the gov ...
issued a negative report, and the project was placed on hold pending completion of a new land use study for the City Council. In June
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu (, ; born 1959) is a Spanish-French politician who has served as Mayor of Paris since 2014, the first woman to hold the office. She is a member of the Socialist Party.
Hidalgo served as First Deputy Mayor of Paris ...
announced that construction permits had been signed, with a new cost estimate of $450 million and completion further delayed to 2019. Opponents, who objected to the demolition of 2.5 acres (1 hectare) of greenhouses and biological gardens at the
Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil
The Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil () is a botanical garden set within a major greenhouse complex located at the southern edge of the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 16th arrondissement, with entry at 1 avenue Gordon-Bennett, P ...
on the eastern border of the current ground, proposed an alternate, northward expansion into the
Bois de Boulogne
The Bois de Boulogne (, "Boulogne woodland") is a large public park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. The land was ceded to the city of Paris by t ...
that would require covering a portion of the A13 highway. Proponents of the eastward expansion argued that further delays would jeopardize Paris's bid for the
2024 Olympic games
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In December 2015, the Paris Administrative Court ordered suspension of reclamation work involving the Auteuil botanical garden greenhouses. In a statement, the FFT responded that the greenhouses would not be destroyed, and would, in fact, be embellished. FFT also noted that opponents of the eastward expansion "
idnot have good alternatives from the operational, legal and environmental point of view", and added that expansion into the Bois de Boulogne was impossible. In February 2017, the last of the legal challenges were resolved and work resumed on the original eastward expansion plan.
Resumption
The new tournament organization building and ''Village'', new courts 7 and 9, the expanded ''Place des Mousquetaires'', and a new show court in the Fond des Princes area west of Court Lenglen were completed in time for the
2018 Open. The Court des Serres, renamed Court Simonne Mathieu, was opened in March 2019, ready for the
2019 tournament, as was the rebuilt Court Chatrier, with the retractable roof completed in time for the
2020 tournament.
[Expansion of Roland Garros Aims to Preserve Parisian Style](_blank)
''Newsweek'' (25 May 2017), retrieved 31 May 2017.
In
2021
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, the redevelopment of courts 2 and 3 and the renovation work at the Place des Mousquetaires were finished.
This included the inauguration of statues to
Rafael Nadal
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(who has won the French Open singles title a record 14 times), Roland Garros, and the "Four Musketeers" (Borotra, Brugnon, Cochet, and Lacoste). In the same year, the tournament introduced night sessions on Court Philippe Chatrier for the first time in its history. Court Suzanne Lenglen will have a retractable roof completed on time for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Location
![2019 French Open map-fr](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/2019_French_Open_map-fr.svg)
Stade Roland Garros is located at the western side of Paris, at the southern boundary of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris's
16th
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arrondissement
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. The triangular property is bounded by Avenue Porte d'Auteuil and
A13 autoroute
Autoroute 13, or ''L'Autoroute de Normandie'' links Paris to Caen, Calvados.
The motorway starts in Paris at the Porte d'Auteuil, a former gate of the Paris walls, and ends at Mondeville's Mondeville 2 (Porte de Paris) exchange junction on the ...
on the north and Boulevard d'Auteuil on the south. The eastern boundary is Avenue
Gordon Bennett and the adjacent
Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil
The Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil () is a botanical garden set within a major greenhouse complex located at the southern edge of the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 16th arrondissement, with entry at 1 avenue Gordon-Bennett, P ...
.
Transportation
The closest
Métro stations are
Porte d'Auteuil (
Line 10) and
Michel-Ange–Molitor (
Line 9,
Line 10), to the north- and southeast respectively.
*
Bus
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: Routes 22, 32, 52, 62, 72, 123, 241 and PC1
*
Vélib'
is a large-scale public bicycle sharing system in Paris, France. Launched on 15 July 2007, the system encompassed around 14,500 bicycles and 1,400 bicycle stations, located across Paris and in some surrounding municipalities, with an average da ...
: Stations 16 034, 16 035 and 16 036
A special Stade Roland Garros taxi stand operates in May and June during the French Open on the southeast corner of the venue grounds, at the corner of Robert Schuman Avenue and Auteuil Boulevard.
See also
*
List of tennis stadiums by capacity
The following is a list of notable tennis stadiums by capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators they can regularly accommodate.
Notes:
* Stadiums ordered by their capacity (if equal, by the first stadium to reach the capacity)
* Some o ...
References
External links
*
Official site of the French Tennis Federation
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