The man the Roland Garros tennis tournament was named after
was a pilot.
To add, it is named for Roland Garros, a pioneer aviator who
completed the first solo flight across the Mediterranean
Sea, engineer (inventor of the first forward-firing aircraft machine
gun), and World War I hero (the first pilot to shoot down
five enemy aircraft and to be called an "ace" for doing so). Garros
was killed in aerial combat in 1918.
