PARIS - MAY 26: Roger Federer of Switzerland serves during the Men’s Singles first round match against Sam Querrey of USA on day two of the French Open at Roland Garros on May 26, 2008 in Paris, France. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Greetings my name is Matthew Stockman and I am a photographer for Getty Images based in Louisville, Kentucky. At present I am in Paris covering the French Open tennis event held at Roland Garros, the second of the four major Grand Slam tournaments. I will be blogging to you throughout the tournament.

There is no ‘I’ in team of course. I am joined my colleagues Mike Hewitt, Julian Finney and Justin Davies all from our London office. Fine bunch of lads as they say in their country and I have had the pleasure of working with them before at other international events.

Day 1, Sunday? Normally tournaments start play on Monday. The Sunday trend started a few years ago here and it has remained. It is my guess the eventually all the Grand Slams will start on the Sunday. There is a lot of tennis to be played over the next two weeks and to be honest we were all ready to get it underway. I’m sure the players are too.

I’ll catch up with you once things get started…

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