I was gratified, while channel surfing this morning, to see that NBC is referring to the clay-court tennis tournament underway in a Paris suburb as the Roland Garros. I was in Paris twenty-six years ago, during this annual event. When I asked around about the 'French Open', nobody knew what I was asking about. Nobody there calls it that, and nobody seemed to know that anybody else did. Like Wimbledon, it is named after the stadium where it is played – and the stadium that hosts this is named after an early French aviation hero, Roland Garros. American television has just been very slow to respect that.
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