Roland garros who is he

The stadium was to be built outside of Paris. Part of the negotiation for the land to build the stadium was predicated on naming the finished tennis arena after a World War I soldier. The soldier chosen was aviation hero Roland Garros. Ten years after he was killed during the war, Roland Garros, a guy who actually loved to play rugby, became the new emblem of French tennis. Even if Garros liked rugby more, he fought for France and I think he can be forgiven for this minor flaw.

Clarey: He played some, but he was much more of a rugby player, and his friends were rugby players, and the area was more for rugby than for tennis initially, which is why they had the power of getting his name on there. How do they decide what to call it? Werman: Wow. It sounds almost as loaded as the difference between the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Gulf. I mean, it really is one of these things where in the modern area people want to go to a single name, and Roland Garros tried to fight for a long time commercially to make it only Roland Garros, and I think they found it was a losing battle.

So, in the US we go for players and in France they go for administrators. Are the French kind of tired seeing Serena Williams all the time? Clarey: Selena has come a long way in the French estimation. Her coach is French now, she speaks very passable, respectable French--takes a lot guts. Roland Garros was not an avid tennis player, despite being a keen sportsman. When he was younger, he had a talent for football, rugby and cycling, a sport that helped get his respiratory system back to full strength after a bout of pneumonia when he was Having been invited to the Champagne region by a friend, he attended his first air show and fell completely in love with these crazy machines.

On 6th September , two years after the birth of this all-consuming passion for aircraft, Garros broke his first altitude record, reaching 3, metres just under 13, feet after taking off from Houlgate beach. He took part in a series of air show and races, astonishing spectators with his bravery and inventiveness. He quickly became a star in the discipline, with hundreds of thousands of people in both Europe and South America flocking to watch him in action. Roland Garros had great ambitions and wanted to fly over the seas.

He set himself a new challenge: to cross the Mediterranean, something that had never been done at the time. This epic journey would take nearly eight hours. Setting off at 5.