ROLAND GARROS

TENNIS EVENT IN PARIS - one of the world's best-known and most prestigious tournaments.

In the world of tennis, the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (the informal name for "Les Internationaux de France de Roland Garros"), known worldwide as "The French Open," is one of the sport's most highly anticipated events.

This world-famous tennis tournament is held each year during a 2-week span between mid-May and early June. It gets its name for the stadium in which it's held, the Roland Garros Stadium (Stade).

The Roland Garros is one of the world's best-known and most prestigious tournaments. It has the largest broadcast audience in the world among tennis matches, and is also the most esteemed clay-court tournament in the tennis world. It also widely considered to be the most physically challenging tennis tournament in the world due to the slower playing surface, and the fact that the tournament ends with five-set singles matches without the possibility of a tiebreak.

The French Open is remarkable and unique in large part due to its playing surface of clay verses grass or harder material.

Clay courts are a more demanding surface compared to hard courts or even grass for several reasons. Clay physically slows the ball and has a higher bounce. This means big serves tend to be counteracted somewhat, making it more difficult for players who rely on strong serves to enjoy the advantage they normally would. An example of players who would be affected by this disadvantage would be players such as John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg. All of these players, known for their punchy serves and powerful serve-and-volley styles, have never won a French Open.

As a result, this unique tournament tends to favor players who have a more calculated approach and/or a slower playing style, such as Mats Wilander, Ivan Lendl, or Björn Borg.

Players who have fared best in both of tennis' major tournaments – i.e., Wimbledon and Roland Garros – have been those whose talents encompass both the strong and more subtle aspects of the game. The list here includes tennis masters Andre Agassi, Rod Laver, Rafael Nadal and again Bjorn Berg.

The Roland Garros originated in 1891 as the national tournament of France and was called the French Tennis Championship (in French, "Championat de France International de Tennis"). The first tournament for women was held six years later. Both of these were technically lawn tennis competitions. Red clay (or in French, "terre battue") was introduced in 1912. This original red clay was derived from crushed red bricks. Until the mid-1920s, the tournament was only available for players licensed in France itself.

By 1925, this tournament became open for international competition, and in 1928 the event was moved to the Roland Garros Stadium, built to commemorate the French fighter aircraft pilot Roland Garros, who during World War I became the first man to fly an airplane across the entire breadth of the Mediterranean Sea.

Winners of the tournament receive pure silver trophies with beautiful etched decoration and their name.

The Roland Garros Stadium is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Staying near the tournament is as easy as contacting www.mykeystoParis.com for any apartment rentals in Paris.

The 16th is a beautiful, stately arrondissement located adjacent to the 8th, meaning sights such as the Arch of Triumph, Champs Elysees and Eiffel Tower across the Seine in the 7th are never far away. There is a dizzying assortment of restaurants and attractions within easy reach via a short metro ride.

The Trocadéro and Palais de Chaillot are also here in the 16th, as well as some of central Paris' most relaxing walks. And don't miss the Tennis Museum in the Roland Garros stadium (open weekdays, except Mondays), which boasts around 3,000-square feet of exhibition space, with photographs and multimedia displays, and around 100 racquets representing 60 years of tennis history.

Whether you're coming to Paris for the match, or simply want to see the Musée du Tennis / Tenniseum, you'll have the time of your life in the 16th.

HUGO PRATT AND WAR

MUSEE DE L'ARMEE - HOTEL NATIONAL DES INVALIDES - From 3 june to 4 october 2009



War stories feature amongst the favourite themes of Hugo Pratt. Drawings, water colours, uniforms and even several film extracts are on show throughtout this unique exhibition which aims to examine the issue of war through the work of the creator of the famous Corto Maltese. This character, a british sailor whose adventures take place between 1900 and 1930, gained Hugo Pratt international recognition. Corto Maltese also reflects the many travels and overflowing inventiveness of his author.


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THE ART OF TRAVEL JOURNALS FROM 1800 TO THE MODERN DAY

MUSEE DE LA POSTE - From 14 April to 12 Septembre 2009

Travel Journals are not solely the privilege of explorers, such as Théodore Monod and Paul-Emile Victor. Painters like Jean Dubuffet or Bernard Rancillac also sketched whilst on their travels. Natural scientific illustrations, ethnological note books, historical and artistic path of a singular literary genre.

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SEE ITALY AND DIE

The "Grand Tour" puts photograpy and pinting to the test in the 19th century


MUSEE D'ORSAY - From 7 April to 19 July 2009

During the siecle des Lumieres the "Grand Tour" was a long trip taken by young people from the upper classes of European society, intended to complete their education; However, this practice did not vanish at the end of the 18th century and resisted the emergence of atlernatives to the Italie aesthetic model, Italy being its principal destination. Even after 1850, its popularity amongst artists and simple tourists increased in an impressive fashion, aided by the development of both communication means and photography. The attraction of the beauty of Virgil's as yet untouched homeland saw vast artistic output.



The exhibition presents these works, revealing the recurrent themes and fantasies: archaeological and ancient remains, the major european cultural sites and the contemporary population's lasting attachement to the ancient world.

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"THE GATES OF HEAVEN" : VISIONS OF THE WORLD IN ANCIENT EGYPT

MUSEE DU LOUVRE - From 6 March to June 2009



In the language of the ancient Egyptians, the Gates of Heaven refer to the doors of the tabernacle housing the statue of a god. Symbolising the point of entry to another world, this phrase also applies to other elements of the egyptian universe. The exhibition invites you to a journey through these worlds, passing through the gates of heaven, the heavens being both the perceptible space visible from Earth and the dimension housing the divine.
The event presents more than 300 works covering the periodes from the pre-dynastic era to Roman times, replacing the objects in their social religious and artistic context.

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ITALIAN PRIMITIVES

MUSEE JACQUEMART-ANDRE- from 11 march to june 2009

The museum is home to the collection of Italian primitive masterpieces assembles at the start of the 19th century by the German baron Bernard von Lindenau. There are over fifty paintings in all, produced by the greatest masters of the pre-Renaissance and the first Italian Renaissance - Giudo da Siena, Pietro Lorenzetti, Bernardo Daddi, Lorenzo Monaco, Fra Angelica, Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli. The whole collection underlines the richness and great diversity of the mystically poetic works.

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MY DEAR RABBIT

MUSEE DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA NATURE. From April to Semptember 2009

The representation, throughout the history of art, of highly-symbolic animal : the rabbit. The work. The works-notably contemporary-on show at the exhibition, reveal its two faced nature. A creature capable of metamorphosing into an obese, deam-like, transgenic puppet, provoking urges and revealing anxiety. In a period of re-examination of human nature, the contemporary rabbit has the magical powers of a chameleon:switching from tender and feminine to wild or even robotic.

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