Août 26

Tennis And Roland-Garros

 TENNIS

Tennis is a racket sport. Tennis is an English adaptation of French « jeu de paume ». It  is played either by two players or four players in two teams of two. The players use a racket. This racket serves to strike a rubber ball. The purpose of the game is to strike the ball so that the opponent cannot put it back  within the limits of the ground either by marking the point by putting the opponent out of reach of the ball, or by obliging him to commit a fault (if his ball does not fall again within the limits of the court, or if it does not cross the net) . When the match is simple, the court is used entirely, but when the match is double, it is divided into two (left and right) corridors, used each by one player. The match is won by taking away a maximum of points, games, then sets, according to the rules of the game, variable according to the sex, the age, the tournament … The match points are deceptive: 15, 30, 40, set game .

Tennis is one of the most popular racket sports !

ROLAND-GARROS

 

The Roland-Garros stadium is a tennis stadium in hard-packed surface built in 1927 and situated on the West side of Paris. It welcomes every year the International Tennis Tournament.

The name of the stadium was chosen in tribute to the airman Roland Garros, who died in an air combat of the First World war in 1918.

Roland-Garros contains all in all 24 courts. The three biggest are the center court,  Suzanne-Lenglen court and court nb 1.

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 RECORDS

 

 

 

Record

Periode

Player (s)

Number

Victorious years
Sirs since 1891
Largest number of titles in   men’s singles match Before 1968         Max Decugis 8 1903-1904, 1907-1909, 1912-1914
Bitter 1967      Björn Borg      Rafael Nadal 6 1974-1975, 1978-1981 2005-2008, 2010-2011
Largest number of   consecutive titles in men’s singles match Before 1968      Max Decugiss 3 1907-1909, 1912-1914
     Frank Parker      Jarosla Drobný      Tony Trabert      Nicola   Pietrangeli 2 1948-1949 1951-1952 1954-1955 1959-1960
Bitter 1967      Björn Borg      Rafael Nadal 4 1978-1981 2005-2008
Largest number of titles in   men’s doubles Before 1968      Max Decugis 14 1902-1914, 1920
     Roy Emerson 6 1960, 1962 with Neale Fraser   1961 with Rod Laver 1963 with Manuel Santana 1964 with Ken Fletcher 1965 with   Fred Stolle
Bitter 1967      Paul Haarhuis
     Ievgueni Kafelnikov		 3 1995, 1998 with Jacco   Eltingh 2002 with Ievgueni Kafelnikov
1996-1997 with Daniel Vacek 2002 with Paul Haarhuis
Largest number of   consecutive titles in men’s doubles Before 1968      Max Decugis 13 1902-14
     Roy Emerson 6 1960-65
Bitter 1967      Gene Mayer
     Y. Kafelnikov      Daniel Vacek
     J. Bjorkman      Max Mirnyi		 2 1978 with Hank Pfister 1979   with Sandy Mayer
1996-97
2005-06
Largest number of titles in   mixed doubles men’s Before 1968      Max Decugis 7 1904-1906, 1908-1909, 1914 et 1920 with Suzanne   Lenglen
Bitter 1967      Jean-Claude Barclay 3 1968, 1971, 1973 with Françoise Durr
More tournaments (total:   simple, double, mixed) – men’s Before 1968      Max Decugis 29 1902-1920 (8 simples, 14 doubles, 7 mixtes)
Bitter 1967      Björn Borg      Rafael Nadal 6 1974-81 (6 simples) 2005-11 (6 simples)
Ladies since 1897
Largest number of titles in   women’s singles match Before 1968:      Suzanne Lenglen 6 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926
Bitter 1967:      Chris Evert 7 1974-75, 1979-80, 1983, 1985-86
Largest number of   consecutive titles in women’s singles match Before 1968      Suzanne Lenglen 4 1920-23
Bitter 1967      Monica Seles
     Justine Henin		 3 1990-92
2005-07
Largest number of titles in   ladies’ doubles Before 1968      Simonne Mathieu 6 1933-34 with   Elizabeth Ryan 1936-38 with Billie Yore 1939 with Jadwiga J?drzejowska
Bitter 1967      /      Martina Navrátilová 7 1975 with Chris Evert 1982   with Anne Smith 1984-85, 1987-88 with Pam Shriver 1986 with Andrea Temesvári
Largest number of   consecutive titles in ladies’ doubles Before 1968      Françoise Dur 5 1967-71
Bitter 1967      /      Martina Navrátilová
     Gigi Fernández		 5 1984-85, 1987-88 with Pam   Shriver 1986 with Andrea Temesvári
1991 with Jana Novotná 1992-95 with Natasha Zvereva
Largest number of titles in   mixed doubles – ladies Before 1968      Suzanne Lenglen 7 1914, 1920 with Max Decugis   1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926 with Jacques Brugnon
Bitter 1967      Françoise Durr 3 1968, 1971, 1973 with Jean-Claude Barclay
More tournaments (total:   simple, double, mixed) – ladies Before 1968      Suzanne Lenglen 15 1919-1926 (6 simples, 2 doubles, 7 mixtes)
Bitter 1967      /      Martina Navrátilová 11 1974-88 (2 simples, 7 doubles, 2 mixtes)
Miscellaneous
Largest number of   consecutive contests Men :      Rafael Nadal 31 2005-2009
Women :      Chris Evert 28 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980
Largest number of contests   gained in simple Men :      Guillermo Vilas 58 1972-1989
Women :
Younger winners Men:      Michael Chang 17 years et 3 months 1989
Women      Monica Seles 16 years et 6 months 1990
Older winners Men:      Andrés Gimeno 34 years et 10 months 1972
Women:      Zsuzsa Körmöczy 33 years 1958
Winners not seeded players Men:      Marcel Bernard
     Mats Wilander
     Gustavo Kuerten
     Gastón Gaudio		 1946
1982
1997
2004
Women:      Margaret Scriven 1933
The longest match Men:      Fabrice Santoro contre      Arnaud Clément 6 h 33 2004
Women:      Virginie Buisson contre      Noëlle van Lottum 4 h 07 1995
The latest end of match Men :      Fabio Fognini contre      Gaël Monfils 21 h 57 2010
Better tour achieves by a   qualified Men :      Filip Dewulf Demi-finale 1997

 

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  1. Hello
    I read your article on the tenis.
    He is BRILLANT!!!!!!!
    I Iike tenis and I look at the tenis on the TV!!!
    I know somebody who and already went Roland Garros!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I LIKE YOUR ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. Interesting comment. Yes, you’re right, tennis is great… but it has 2 « n »!!

      careful!! « and » = « et » (conjonction)
      In this case, you mean « est déjà allé », which necessitates the present perfect (have + past participle)
      So…. »and already went Roland Garros » = « has already been to Roland Garros »

  2. I love watching tennis matches on TV.
    I would love to go to Roland Garros. It would be so good !

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  5. I don’t like roland-garros because,i don’t like tennis and is cut my favourite serie.

  6. I like this arcticle because, i love tennis it’s my best sport.
    I practice tennis at the Tennis Club of Trèbes.
    I watch tennis in the TV. Roland Garros,Wimbledon,Flushing Meadow…

  7. The tennis is not specially a sport which I like but you on the other hand it looks like, yes. You play tennis? Finally, it is good to be interested in a sport. I like what you wrote.

  8. I like roland garros and tennis. I practise tennis en club.
    And you, you play tennis?

  9. i watch many a tennis mainly roland garros but sometimes the gametoo hard for a long time and i sleep , except the final day .

  10. Roland Garros is a fantastic tennis tournament, I like tennis because I play tennis myself.
    I am particularly fan of Raphael Nadal.

  11. The article is good, but I do not like tennis.

  12. I like this article because i like sport but i don’t like tennis. It is a great article because they explains well what is the tennis. Rolland garros is a great competition.

    1. « what is the tennis » = « what tennis is » Tennis is the subect of the sentence, so the verb goes after it.
      You’re right, R. Garros is wonderful!

  13. Roland Garros was a very interresting competition. it is a pity just that no Frenchmen won :(. we will see who won the next competition.

    1. « who will win » in the future, Renaud!!

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  16. An interesting, very well informed, complete, article.
    One minor detail, though: the longest match record has now changed: it was last year, over 11 hours !!!

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