PARIS (AP) The French Open is staying at Roland Garros, which the French Tennis Federation says it will renovate instead of moving the clay-court Grand Slam elsewhere.
Three other projects were bidding to host the year's second Grand Slam by 2016, but the federation said in a statement Sunday that it was keeping the tournament at the venue in western Paris. It didn't immediately give reasons for the decision.
The proposed new venues at Versailles, close to the hugely popular Versailles palace, and in the suburbs at Gonesse and Marne-La-Vallee were considerably more costly because they would have required building from scratch.
Roland Garros is the smallest of the four Grand Slam venues.