Home-Court Edge Includes Short Walk to Work.

PARIS -- This May, same as every May, tennis players descended on the French Open from all corners of the world. They came from Australia and Argentina, from Croatia and Kazakhstan, from Japan and Slovakia and points in between. Not Edouard Roger-Vasselin. He arrived from down the street: a short walk -- two boulevards and one turn in total -- from the grounds at Roland Garros. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]