Arab connection
TUCKED amid the souvenir and food stalls at Roland Garros is a booth promoting Al-Jazeera's new sports channel, which is beaming the French Open in Arabic for the first time across the Middle East and North Africa.A division of Al-Jazeera news, the sports channel was launched late last year and has exclusive rights to several major international events including the French Open, which is its first Grand Slam, said Einat Yogev, a spokeswoman. It also has rights to next year's Australian Open.
