{"id":592022,"date":"2026-05-19T07:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592022\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:23:19","slug":"wawrinka-i-grew-up-with-roland-garros-its-part-of-me-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592022\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawrinka: I grew up with Roland-Garros, it\u2019s part of me &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sat down with this modern-day great, his eyes glisten as soon as the topic of the Paris clay is raised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roland-Garros for me goes all the way back to when I was younger,&#8221; said the Lausanne native. &#8220;It&#8217;s May-June and the beginning of holiday. So that was, for me, the best memories, you come back from school and you watch on TV every match, many times I sat all day long, I remember those days very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From watching in front of a screen, Wawrinka was soon sliding across the world-renowned terre battue at Porte d&#8217;Auteuil.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic and Murray were part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/rg-rewind-wawrinka-shines-in-star-studded-2003-boys-draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Roland-Garros 2003 boys\u2019 event<\/a>, but Wawrinka took the top junior honours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It came as a surprise as it was the only Junior Grand Slam I played that year, I was playing more Satellites and Futures events for ATP ranking points,&#8221; recalled the 16-time ATP titlist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My first real experience at a Grand Slam, it was amazing. It was a super tough draw, I knew I was playing well but was a surprise to win because I was comparing myself against the best of my age. I\u2019ll never forget it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat down with this modern-day great, his eyes glisten as soon as the topic of the Paris clay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}