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Why is Roland-Garros named after a pilot?

This man never held a racket.

In 1913, he became the first to cross the Mediterranean nonstop.

Killed in combat in 1918, at twenty-nine.

Ten years later, France builds a stadium for its Davis Cup.

The club's president, his old friend, makes one condition: the stadium will bear his name.

Millions say his name every year.

For a tennis court. Not for the sky he crossed.