By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, December 21, 2023
A reimagined Roland Garros is an inventive splash.
French photographer Paul Rousteau transports Roland Garro’s pink clay to the River Seine within the newly unveiled forty fifth match poster.
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Persevering with an annual custom that started in 1980, the French Tennis Federation commissioned an artist to create the long-lasting Roland Garros poster.
Photographer Rousteau transplants the terre battue onto the River Seine with the intense yellow ball beaming down because the solar in a tennis sky.
It is an acceptable picture given King of Clay Rafael Nadal, whose astounding Court docket Philippe Chatrier document evokes a person strolling on water, goals to return to Roland Garros in could for what might be his French Open farewell.
Fourteen-time Roland Garros champion Nadal has registered a mind-blowing 112-3 document with solely two males—Robin Soderling in 2009 and world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in 2015 and 2021—defeating the Spanish celebrity at Roland Garros.
Here is a reminder of the 2023 Roland Garros poster artwork.
On this 2023 piece titled Land of the Stars, younger French artist Maxime Verdier re-imagines Roland Garros as a starscape the place all goals are doable.
It was a historic breakthrough for Roland Garros’ distinguished historical past of poster artwork.
This was the primary Roland Garros official submit to be drawn completely in coloured pencil. Court docket Philippe-Chatrier is on the heart of the piece offered bathed in a halo of sunshine beneath an evening sky with brilliant yellow tennis ball stars lighting up the sky serving symbolically because the alluring tennis goals of gamers and followers of all ages.
Photograph credit score: Julian Finney/Getty
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