how" Roland Garros" comes?
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I'm not sure what your queston is, but let me try these:\n\nWhen is "Roland Garros" this year -- R/G is the site of the French Open, the only clay court major championship, to be played from 5-28 to 6/11 this year.\n\nWho/what  was Roland Garros --why the name?  Apparently, he was a French aviation pioneer who was the first to fly over the Mediterranean.\n\nWho will win the French Open this year?  Will Nadal be in shape to defend?  Will Federer take the major that has eluded him during his 3-year stretch of dominance?  Other candidates?  Something tells me that Federer  will not win this year (he'll end up winning a couple in his career) and it won't be Nadal either.  Having said that, I hope they will be seeded in different halves and play one another for the title.\n\nThe women?  Can Mauresmo deal w/ the pressure, having finally won a major?  Who's going to be healthy?  Not a prediction, but I'd love to see Hingis cement her comeback with a title here.\n\nWas your question answered?
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According to the web site below, David Belle and Sebastien Foucan created the sport. \n\nLots of info at the site below ( in english and french)
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It was in France that the game as we know it today really came into being. During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries it became the highly fashionable sport of kings and noblemen and was called ' Jeu de paumme' - the game of the palm. Early French players would begin a game by shouting 'tenez' i.e. 'Play!' and the game soon became known as Royal, or Real Tennis.\n\nReal tennis was actually very different to the game that we know today. It was played indoors, in large galleries with jutting roofs and points were won according to how the ball was played off of the gallery walls. This is very different to today's Lawn Tennis, where the rectangular court is laid out on a grass surface and the play is within marked boundaries, not off of the walls. Another key difference is that Real tennis used a system of chases. In today's game if a ball bounces twice it is dead. In Real Tennis however, a marker would mark the point of the second bounce. This was known as the chase. In addition to playing for points, opponents would compete by trying to put their chase as close as possible to their opponents back wall. A player who had lagged behind in the points could come from behind to win the match by being more skilful at the chase.\n  \n\nAfter its initial rise in popularity with the French nobility, tennis spread throughout Europe, becoming particularly popular in England. As in France the game became recognised as the sport of kings. Henry VIII was a very keen player and built a court at his palace in Hampton Court, still used today by Real Tennis enthusiasts. Tennis wasn't just confined to France and England though, and the game also spread to Spain, Italy, Holland, Switzerland and Germany. In the 18th century however, the game went into decline, the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars virtually eliminating it across most of Europe.\n\nLawn Tennis\n\nThis was to change in the 19th century when Victorian prosperity in England prompted a significant revival. Courts were built in many famous country houses and the first tennis clubs providing facilities for members began to appear. In was during this period that the game of Lawn Tennis began to emerge. Enthusiasts had been trying for some time to adapt the game into an open-air sport and as strange as it may seem this was largely brought about by the development of vulcanized rubber. This enabled the production of balls that were soft enough so as not to damage the grass, but which still retained the elasticity and liveliness of rubber.\n  \n\nAnother important factor was the ease and simplicity of Lawn Tennis. All that was needed was a flat grass surface and Lawn Tennis courts became commonplace in the rolling estates of the wealthy. Real Tennis had always been the domain of royalty and nobility but in Victorian England the sport was soon embraced by the upper classes.\n\nThe term Lawn Tennis was coined by Arthur Balfour, a British Statesman and it didn't take long before lawn surfaces were replaced with various turf derivatives and eventually clay and concrete. Within a very short time Lawn Tennis began to replace croquet as the summer sport. The biggest boost for tennis however came in 1875. The All England Croquet Club, formed in 1869 had failed to attract enough visitors and in 1875 they decided to offer Lawn Tennis as an added attraction. The new game was an instant success, so much so that in 1877 the name of the club was changed to the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. Rising rents at their four-acre site in the London suburb of Wimbledon however, meant that the club had to raise additional funds. Later that year the first ever Lawn Tennis tournament was organised. A committee was established to draw up a set of rules the first tournament went ahead with 22 players, watched by some 200 spectators. The Wimbledon Championship was born.
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The  one I can think of right now is Nadal who won it last year.  Gaston Gaudio won it in 2004, he's in the draw.  Juan Carlos Ferrero won it in 2003, he's in the draw.  Carlos Moya is in the draw he won it in 1998.  That's all the former champs that have entered this year.
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According to altavista babel fish it will translate french to english an it comes out as "baby of poker" but thats assuming it was french in the first place also tried spanish and italian but go no answer
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Go get one of those French for beginers books to have him practice. Or make a game out of it yourself. My teacher plays Hexagons with us. Cut a bunch of hexagons out and put French words on some sides and English words on the others. It's like a puzzle. The French words have to match up with the English words. \nOr play Attaque. Make a gameboard. Some squares say "Je" "Tu" "Il" "Elle" "Nous" "Vous" "Ils" et "Elles". He will have to then draw a card when he lands on one of those spots. The cards have verbs on them. He will have to write the correct form of the verb. For example, say he lands on "Tu" and picks up the card "Manger". He will then have to write down "Tu manges". If he gets it right, he gets 3 points. Then other squares say Attaque. Then he'll have to pick up a verb card and write all the forms of the verb. EX: "manger" Je mange, tu manges, il/elle/on mange, nous mangeons, vous mangez, et ils, elles mangent. He either gets 5 points or can steal someone else's points if he wins.The other squares say "Quel est ceci?" or "What is this?". If he lands on these squares, he picks up a card and says what the verb is in english. EX: "manger" = "to eat" He gets 1 point for this.
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C'est en 1928 que fut inauguré le stade de Roland Garros pour les besoins de la Coupe Davis (la France y était alors "defender", c'est à dire tenante du titre).
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Jim Courier won the French Open in 1992.
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The court\n \nA tennis player standing on a courtTennis is played on a rectangular flat surface, usually of grass, clay, or concrete (hard court). The court is 78 feet (23.77 m) long, and its width is 27 feet (8.23 m) for singles matches and 36 feet (10.97 m) for doubles matches. Additional clear space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) high at the posts, and 3 feet (914 mm) high in the center.\n\nThere are three main types of courts, depending on the materials used for the court surface. Each surface provides a difference in the speed and bounce of the ball, which in turn can affect the level of play of the individual players. Some players are notoriously better on certain surfaces than on others and become known as, for instance, a "grass-court" or "clay-court specialist".\n\nClay court \nGrass court \nHardcourt \nHardcourt encompasses many different surfaces, ranging from old-fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt to wooden gymnasium surfaces to artificial grass similar to AstroTurf.\n\nClay courts are considered "slow", meaning that the balls lose speed as they hit the court and bounce relatively high, making it more difficult for a player to hit an unreturnable shot, called a winner. On clay courts, line calls are easily reviewable because the ball leaves a visible mark. Hardcourts and grass are "fast" surfaces, where fast, low bounces keep rallies short, and powerful, hard-serving and hard-hitting players have an advantage. Grass courts add an additional variable, with bounces depending on how healthy the grass is and how recently it has been mowed.\n\nOf the Grand Slam tournaments, the U.S. Open and Australian Open use hardcourts (though they used grass courts and clay courts in the past), the French Open is played on clay, and Wimbledon is played on grass.\n\n\nPlay of a single point\n\nThe players (or teams) start on opposite sides of the net. One player is designated the server, and the opposing player, or in doubles one of the opposing players, is the receiver. Service alternates between the two halves of the court.\n\nFor each point, the server starts behind his baseline, between the center mark and the sideline. The receiver may start anywhere on his side of the net, usually behind the diagonally opposite service box. When the receiver is ready, the server will serve.\n\nIn a legal service, the ball travels over the net (without touching it) and into the diagonally opposite service court. If the ball hits the net but lands in the service court, this is a let service, which is void. If the first service is otherwise faulty in any way, the serving player has a second attempt at service. If the second service is also faulty, this is a double fault and the receiver wins the point.\n\nA legal service starts a rally, in which the players alternate hitting the ball across the net. A legal return consists of the player or team hitting the ball exactly once before it has bounced twice or hit any fixtures. It then travels back over the net and bounces in the court on the opposite side. The first player or team to fail to make a legal return loses the point.\n\nScoring\n\nA tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. A set consists of a number of games, and games, in turn, consist of points.\n\nMatches consist of an odd number of multiple sets, the match winner being the player who wins more than half of the sets. The match ends as soon as this winning condition is met. Some matches may consist of five sets (the winner being the first to win three sets), while most matches are three sets (the winner being the first to win two sets).\n\nA set consists of a sequence of games played with service alternating between games, ending when the count of games won meets certain criteria. Typically,
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L'arbitrage a pourri la finale, mais aussi toute la coupe du monde.\nBref, cette coupe a eu les vainqueurs qu'elle meritait ;-)
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Il y a peu de chose à ajouter. A part que d'autres joueurs et joueuses avars en commentaires positifs et eux-mêmes brillants techniquement ont été élogieux envers lui : Martina Navratilova aurait dit de lui qu'il était "magique". John McEnroe, qui à l'instar de Sampras avait Rod Laver pour model de perfection lorsqu'il était actif, aurait dit que Federer est le meilleur de tous les temps, "la perfection".\nPour moi, ce sont les compliments ultimes, en raison de leurs source qui font que confirmer mon humble avis personnel amateur. (McEnroe a par ailleur affirmé que Justine Hénin avait le meilleur revers du circuit hommes/femmes confondus, et je suis entièrement d'accord :-)
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Non, ce n'est pas une grande joeuse de terre battue bien qu'elle ait fait des progrès. de plus, au niveau mental, malgré les efforts déjà promulgués, elle ne semble pas encore assez convaincue d'être une winneuse de Roland Garros
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En fonction du ranking a la WTA ou ATP. Les 32 premiers mondiaux en grand chelem et 16 premiers en Masters. Sauf à Wimbledon ou les têtes de series sont données en fonction des résultats sur gazon dans les 12 derniers mois (75%) et le classement ATP ou WTA pour le reste.
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Le vainqueur de Wimbledon (c'est à dire Federer!!) empoche 969 300 euros, alors que chez les femmes c'est 916 300 euros. Enfin à peu près, sinon pour l'US open je crois que Kim Clijsters à remporté 2 millions de dollars et ca doit etre a peu prés pareil pour le vainqueur (Federer si je n me trompe!)....Voila!
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It is wimbledon that has the speed machine and the score board that is from rolex.\nI mean, a big tennis tournament has to have this kind of technology.
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Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena.\n\nThe game was apparently invented in Ireland in the 1830s as a distant cousin of golf and taken to England as a pastime of the aristocracy in the 1850s. It may have evolved from the earlier mallet and ball game pall mall.\n\nIt made its way to Canada, the United States, Australia, and France, and while never hugely popular has continued to maintain a substantial following.
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Evidemment c'est pas très dur. C'est frappant d'ailleurs de voir qu'actuellement deux sports de balle, le tennis et le golf, sont archi-dominés par deux hommes, seuls, très seuls, tout en haut de la pyramide : Federer en tennis et Woods en golf.\n\nEn plus, ils réussissent ce tour de force d'être des modèles, aussi remarquables sur le plan humain que sur le plan sportif, ce qui n'est pas le cas d'autres dominateurs comme Schumacher et Alonso en F1 ou Rossi en moto.