Watch French Open Tennis live online with your subscription to www.watchlivetennis.org, your home on the net for live tennis streaming video. The French Open, also known as Roland Garros, is one of the 4 tennis tournaments that make up the Grand Slam competitions of the tennis calendar and is the second stop on the Grand Slam tour. It is without the question the most prestigious clay court tournament in the world. Thanks to the live web feeds at www.watchlivetennis.org you will now be able to watch live tennis from anywhere in the world where you have an internet connection.

 

 

The French Open as a national tournament has been around since the 19^th century having started in 1891. It made the switch to an international tournament in 1925 and took the name of French World War I hero Roland Garros in 1928. It would take 40 years before the tournament allowed both amateurs and professionals to participate, thus earning the designation as an open tournament.

 

The French Open tennis tournament is distinct due to the surface which the competition is played on. The clay court surface has the effect of reducing the speed of the ball while producing a higher bounce when compared to the surface of the grass courts at Wimbledon or the hard courts at the US Open. These characteristics make it harder for players who rely on their serve to gain an advantage over their opponents and forces them to raise their overall level of play in order to compensate. Players such as Pete Sampras and Roger Federer have struggled, while the likes of Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lendl, Rod Laver and Rafael Nadal have thrived on the clay.

 

Given its status as the great 'equalizer', the French Open can produce extremely surprising results. Of note, players from Spain have won 7 of the last 11 tournaments with Carlos Moya, Albert Costa, Juan Carlos Ferrero winning in addition to Nadal. Nadal has won the last 4 tournaments in a row with the last 3 coming in a final against Swiss ace Roger Federer. You can watch Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal live at www.watchlivetennis.org. The women's championship has seen a more varied array of winners including Iva Majoli, Steffi Graf, Jennifer Capriati, Serena Williams, Justine Henin and Ana Ivanovic among title holders.

 

 

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