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With the French Open just starting, we chose some of the best shots for today. Enjoy!
As usual, at least for the last nearly ninety years, the last month of spring always brings Roland Garros and for the past few years – buckets of rain. Even with the overcast skies and brief periods of showers, the crowds were buzzing with excitement.
The French Open got off to its traditional Sunday start, but a plethora of entertainment has been left for Monday and Tuesday as the first round heats up. While Roger Federer is already through to round two, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have not yet made their 2014 Roland Garros debuts. Let's take a look a quick look ahead.
Two Canadians were in action on the opening day of play on Sunday at Roland-Garros in Paris, France. / En cette première journée d’activités à Roland-Garros, deux Canadiens étaient en action, soit Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) et Peter Polansky (Thornhill, ON).
Here are some of our favorite pictures of the great Federer through the years. Enjoy!
We are in Paris. The weather stinks. But we are in Paris. We even had a rainbow over the Eiffel tower. And how cool is the huge tennis ball hanging from the tower ?
This week, the Prince Paris Tour hit the streets serving-up a week-long list of activities with its top players David Ferrer, Jelena Jankovic and Marion Bartoli throughout the city of Paris for tennis fans and enthusiasts to participate in!
Former New Haven Open Champion and World No. 6 Petra Kvitova, World No. 11 Sara Errani and World No. 19 Genie Bouchard have committed to play the New Haven Open at Yale, a WTA event that is part of the Emirates Airline US Open Series to be held August 15-23, 2014...
French Open fans will be getting beaucoup plus de tennis along with new fan-friendly features with DIRECTV’s interactive, bonus coverage of early round matches of the French Open May 25-June 1.
Mats Merkel is a key member of the Adidas high performance team. Here he is @roland Garros taking a selfie. Look at those clouds in the background. Look at that smile. He is ready to go.
If Broadway's hottest musical is “Sunday In The Park With George,” the hottest act in tennis is the French Open. One does not have to reach far to find parallels. The setting is the same (Paris) and the musical's motif is the famous Impressionist painting whose color is dabbed on canvas by thousands of pigment points which could easily be metaphors for the quarter-million fans that inhabit Stade Roland Garros over its fortnight.
This week in Paris has been wild. It's spring but we've had rain and sun. We had traffic jams and mob scenes but they aren't for the players or the players party.
Does anyone still wonder why professional tennis can't have a commissioner? One only has to examine the game's structure (sic) to understand how quixotic such a job title would be for our sport. Four men and one woman are currently paid over $1 million a year to administer totally different segments of tennis.
The draw ceremony was held on Friday in Paris, France and the table is now set for Roland-Garros, the second Grand Slam event of the tennis season. Four Canadians have earned direct entry into the main draw while three more have a chance to qualify.
Defending champion Nicolas Mahut of France has committed to the player field for the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, R.I., where he captured both the singles and doubles titles last year.
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