Roland Garros

Roland-Garros, famously known as The French Open, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France. The tournament takes place in late May each year at the venue named after the French aviator Roland Garros.

Officially named in French Internationaux de France de Tennis (the “French International of Tennis” in English), the tournament is referred to in English as the “French Open” and alternatively as “Roland Garros”, which is the designation used by the tournament itself in all languages. The stadium and tournament are both hyphenated as Roland-Garros because French spelling rules dictate that in the name of a place or event named after a person, the elements of the name are joined together with a hyphen.