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Article: 'New' French Open: Welcome to 'Roland Garros'
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- International Herald Tribune
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- May 25, 1998
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Christopher Clarey
International Herald Tribune
05-25-1998
''In a way, it's like an amusement park now, like Tennis Land,'' said Patrice Clerc, one of those who approved the new rides.
The face of the French Open, which begins Monday, has changed considerably since Clerc took over the job of tournament director in 1984: so much so that it is becoming difficult even for old hands to remember precisely what used to be where.
But it isn't just the new show courts, the new Internet cafe or the new blueprints that presage more building and renovation in the years ahead.
The spirit of the event has changed with the times, too, and somehow it seems deeply symbolic that after the gardener Robert ...