Pete Kiehart for The New York Times
PARIS — France’s four tennis musketeers played the game in some unconventional places, including the decks of cruise ships as they crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific to compete in international matches.
But the great players, whose long-ago brilliance created the need for Roland Garros Stadium to be built in 1928, never played in a semi-sunken court surrounded by greenhouses.
Their successors will get that chance beginning on Sunday, when the French Open’s latest and most iconoclastic show court opens for business.
“It gives us more room, but it also gives us something unique,” said Gilles Jourdan, the manager of the stadium modernization project.