Inside the iconic Roland Garros where every little detail is a cinematic spectacle

It takes less than 50 minutes to amble around Roland Garros and explore all its many parts and every single corner.

- Sharda Ugra

PARIS: The pace, even if a tick short of glacial, takes in the courts, big and small and can reach the smallest nooks and crannies. Like behind the Court Simonne Mathieu sunk into the earth and enveloped by botanical gardens is a patch of undulating lawn that has deck chairs, people napping under bushes next to a large screen and kids' activities. Where lost in his own rhythm is a DJ. Even with Chatrier at its craziest highest volume, there's parts of the 33 acres of the Roland Garros grounds which seem a world away from the moving parts of a global sports event.

Any first-timer can be swept away by the effortless understatement of it all.

Roland Garros' show courts -- the intimate Suzanne Langlen, the steel, glass and wood of Chatrier and the bijou Simonne Mathieu -- punctuate the landscape but they do not overwhelm it. There's activity, people rushing about, food and drink dished out, money being spent and earned but at Roland Garros, there always seems room to breathe. Roland Garros occupies the least space of any of the four Grand Slam venues but when it comes to court real estate, the Chatrier's surface is bigger than Australia's Rod Laver arena, Wimbledon's Centre Court and the US Open's Arthur Ashe stadium.