Roland-Garros, which dates back to 1891, is the only one of the four major pro tennis tournaments \u2014 also known as Grand Slams \u2014 held on clay, a pretty tough surface to play on. <\/p>\n
Named after a French World War I fighter pilot and aviator, Roland Garros is typically held in Paris in the springtime.<\/p>\n
I’ve never been to the French Open, as it’s called, but in general, the crowds at Roland-Garros and Wimbledon are known for being more formal, with stricter etiquette for viewers. Meanwhile, the US Open has a more festival vibe, where it’s more acceptable for crowds to get in on the action with boos and cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roland-Garros, which dates back to 1891, is the only one of the four major pro tennis tournaments \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1361,96721,98247,98244,75309,49430,98246,90468,75,9,24,55,54,56,1163,98245,98242,24331,98243],"class_list":["post-251658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-event","tag-french-open","tag-good-idea","tag-good-tennis-fan-friend","tag-hana","tag-hbo-max","tag-historic-seaport","tag-launch","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-paris","tag-partner-tnt-sports","tag-roland-garro-watch-party","tag-us-open","tag-us-tennis-fan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}