It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open.
The club's achievements include Swedish championship titles in a slew of sports: football, ice hockey, bandy, handball, floorball, bowling, badminton, athletics and many other sports as well as Wimbledon championships and French Open in tennis (through Sven Davidson, Lennart Bergelin and Ulf Schmidt).
In the French Open, she tried in 2008 to qualify for the first time at a Grand Slam, failing to do so.
During the 2006 season, Ismail had his debut as a coach in Grand Slam tournaments, coaching Sania Mirza during the French Open and Wimbledon.
From 1973 through 1989, it was played in the weeks preceding the French Open; however, from 1990, it was played the week immediately after.
His victories in individual competition included the Singapore Open and French Open singles titles in 1990, and the Asian Championships singles title in 1994.
This situation occurred at the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, where Andre Agassi, the 8th ranked player in the ATP Champions Race, was excluded from the event in favor of Gastón Gaudio, who had won that year's French Open but was ranked 10th at the end of the year.
In 2003, Hammond became the first woman to create the poster for the French Open tennis tournament; her poster became the cover of Tennis Week magazine.
Earlier that year, Anderson had reached the semi-finals of the Australian Championships and won the French Championship doubles, partnering with Ashley Cooper, the man he went on to defeat in the 1957 US Championships final.
Molesworth was unable to compete overseas until 1934 when, at age 40, she reach the last sixteen of the French Championships.
The decision was met with strong opposition, and was compared by some to renaming Stade Roland Garros (home to the French Open in Paris) "Paris Park".
It was played at a welcome party for Serbia's tennis players after their French Open successes .
From 2014, the event will be hosted the week before the French Open championship.
Her other Grand Slam title was the women's doubles at the French Championships in 1928 with partner Eileen Bennett Whittingstall.
The most notable player to win the singles was three-time French Open champion Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, who won the inaugural event.
French Open, a major (grand slam) tennis tournament also known as Roland Garros, named after the aviator
Cortina played in international tennis tournaments all over the world, including the French Open, US Open and Wimbledon.
In single-player mode, the player may compete in the four Grand Slams: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open.
She never won a major tournament, but she reached the finals of both the ladies doubles and the mixed doubles, and twice made it to the semi-finals in the French Open.
The term "World Championships" was dropped for good when the French Championships agreed to open its doors to international amateur tennis players from 1925 onwards, resulting in the World Hard Court Championships being disbanded.
In 1925 the tournament was disbanded when the French Championships opened itself to international competitors with the event held on a clay surface alternately between the Stade Français (1925, 1927), which was the site of the WHCC and the Racing Club de France (1926), which was the site of the previous French Championship.
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World Hard Court Championships (WHCC), frequently considered as the precursor to the French Open was held from 1912 till 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
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The WHCC was open to all nationalities unlike the French Championships which were open only to tennis players who were licensed in France through 1924.
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The men's singles featured World No. 1, Australian Open and Wimbledon champion Roger Federer, French Open winner and Stuttgart titlist Rafael Nadal, and new ATP No. 3 and Miami Masters champion Novak Djokovic.
Roger Federer won two Majors in 2009, the French Open, defeating Robin Söderling in the final, and the Wimbledon Championships with a victory over Andy Roddick.
Blaž Kavčič was the defending champion, but he chose to compete at the French Open instead.
Michael Russell was the defending champion, but he chose to compete at the French Open instead.
Singer Mollie King and golfer Ian Poulter have both been affected by bites, with the latter having to pull out of the French Open.
The 5' 8" player's best Grand Slam result was reaching the Men's Doubles semi-finals at the French Open in 1971 with partner Frew McMillan.
La Coupe des Mousquetaires (English: The Musketeers' Trophy) is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Men's Singles competition at the French Open.
He then reached the semifinal of a top-level Challenger in Bermuda in April and qualified into the main draw of the French Open in May, where he lost in four sets to eventual third-rounder Janko Tipsarević.
This was arguably the strongest year of his career, in which he reached the second rounds of the French Open (l. to Gustavo Kuerten) and Wimbledon (l. to Ivo Karlović), and won the challengers of Heilbronn and Sarajevo.
He was a doubles semifinalist for the French Open with Adam Baworowski, won the Monte-Carlo tournament (now known as the Monte-Carlo Masters) in doubles with Józef Hebda, a two-times singles runner-up for the British Hard Court Championships, and three-times Scottish champion.
Mandarino achieved a career-high singles ranking of World Number 81 which he reached on June 2, 1975 after losing to Anatoli Volkov at the French Open.
However, among the Grand Slams, only the US Open uses the tiebreak in the final set; the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and Olympic tennis instead use the advantage set rules in the final set – in such a set there can be an indefinite number of games until there is a winner.
The Championships at Wimbledon, the US Championships, the French Championships, and the Australian Championships were typically the top events, where amateur players could compete for the title, albeit without prize money.
Alund gained direct entry into the French Open and Wimbledon in 2013, winning a set against World No. 4 David Ferrer in the first round of the latter before eventually losing in four sets.
Wostenholme was the first Canadian to win a match at each of the four Grand Slam events, reaching the second rounds of the 1985 U.S. Open, the 1986 French Open and Wimbledon Championships, and the 1990 Australian Open.
However Djokovic needed to rest in preparation for the French Open.
Maxime "Max" Omer Mathieu Decugis or Décugis (24 September 1882 – 6 September 1978) was a male tennis player from France who holds, together with Rafael Nadal, the French Championships/French Open record of winning the tournament eight times (a French-only tournament before 1925).
At the French Open, Hantuchová lost a marathon second round match to Ashley Harkleroad in which she made over 100 unforced errors, which led to Sears publicly criticising her attitude.
He has won several national titles (including the 1968 German Team Championships with Eintracht Frankfurt), took part in several international tournaments, such as Beaulieu and Cannes Championships, and represented Germany in the main draw of the 1971 French Open – Men's Singles competition at Roland Garros, Paris.
In 1999, Huet made the second round of two Majors, the Australian Open, where he beat Arnaud Di Pasquale and the French Open, where he defeated Hendrik Dreekmann, before losing a five set match to eventual finalist Todd Martin, in a final set tie-break.
The club is unique in that it offers courts of all the Grand Slam surfaces: Rebound Ace (Australian Open), red clay (French Open), grass (Wimbledon), and DecoTurf (US Open).