page_title: Stade Roland Garros
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Stade Roland Garros / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Davis Cup monument at Stade Roland Garros in Paris Čeština: Plastika Davisova poháru na Stade Roland Garros v Paříži
context_page_description: Stade Roland Garros is a complex of tennis courts located in Paris that hosts the French Open, a tournament also known as Roland-Garros. It is a Grand Slam championship tournament played annually around the end of May and the beginning of June. It is named after Roland Garros, a pioneering French aviator. The facility was constructed in 1928 to host France's first defence of the Davis Cup.
  The 8.5-hectare complex contains twenty courts, including three large-capacity stadiums; Les Jardins de Roland Garros, a large restaurant and bar complex; Le Village, the press and VIP area; France's National Training Centre; and the Tenniseum, a bilingual, multimedia museum of the history of tennis.
context_section_description: France was an important power in tennis during the first half of the 20th century due to the dominance of Suzanne Lenglen during the 1910s and 1920s, and les Quatre Mousquetaires ("the Four Musketeers")—Jacques "Toto" Brugnon, Jean Borotra (the "Bouncing Basque"), Henri Cochet (the "Magician"), and René Lacoste (the "Crocodile")—in the 1920s and 1930s.  In 1927, France defeated the United States to win the Davis Cup, due largely to the Musketeers' efforts.  Roland Garros was constructed as a venue for France's successful defense the following year.  France retained the Cup until 1933, again largely because of the Musketeers.  A monument to France's six Cup championships stands at the center of  Place des Mousquetaires, a circular courtyard near the venue's entrance.
  In October 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II, the facility was used as a detention centre where "indésirables"—mostly Hungarians, Russians, Italians, Poles, and citizens suspected of being communists—were held pending imprisonment.  Journalist and former communist Arthur Koestler reported that at the time of his detention, posters advertising the last match prior to the outbreak of war, between Cochet and Borotra, were still in place.
caption: Monument in Place des Mousquetaires to France's string of Davis Cup victories (1927–1933).  Roland Garros was constructed to provide a venue for France's first successful Cup defense in 1928.
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