Tennis in France has been very important for many years now and the French Open Tennis is an event every player wishes in his/her wildest dreams to win.
Also known as Tournoi de Roland Garros, the spans over two weeks between end May and early June at the Stade de Roland Garros in Paris. Scheduled as the second Grand Slam of the annual calendar year and the supreme clay court tournament in the world, the French Open Tennis began in the year 1891 with the name Championat de France International de Tennis, the women got to participate in 1897 and it was only in 1912 that the clay court was introduced instead of lawn tennis. Playing on the clay court is really different ball game and requires special talent to play the game, let alone winning it. Many great players have struggled to make it here while they have been champions on grass. Strange as it might sound, Pete Sampras, the winner of a walloping fourteen Grand Slam singles titles, Roger Federer, the present first seed, and Jimmy Connors have won each and every other Grand Slam singles title except the French Open. On the other side, players like Rafael Nadal, Gustavo Kuerten and Juan Carlos Ferrero have French Open Tennis and rarely any other Grand Slam.
From 25th May to 8th June seven different tennis categories will be present at Roland Garros courts: Senior Men and Women Singles, Doubles and Mixed Double. Junior Boy and Girl Singles. Participants among the leading female tennis players taking part in the event mention can be made of names like Justine Henin, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic, Maria Sharapova, Anna Chakvetadze, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Daniela Hantuchová and Marion Bartoli and among the male players there are also some of the illustrious names like Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Davydenko, Ferrer, Roddick, Gonzalez, Nalbandian and Robredo.
