Justine Henin
Justine Henin (Image: facebook)
This Belgian woman was the star of Roland Garros in the decade of 2000s. In a span of 5 years Henin lifted 4 French Open trophies. Three of them were won consecutively from 2005 to 2007.
sharapova vs henin french open 2005
sharapova vs henin french open 2005
Manu Günec ಅವರಿಂದ ಈ ದಿನದಂದು ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿದೆ ಸೋಮವಾರ, ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ 12, 2010
Henin was the favorite to lift the Roland Garros trophy for the 5th time in 2008. However, she surprised many by retiring from tennis few weeks before the French Open was to start that year.
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The Belgian was only 25 years old then and also the reigning World Number 1.
Henin did comeback in 2010 after a 16 month retirement period. That year she reached the Australian Open final and aimed to win her 5th title in Paris.
Although she made steady progress till the 4th round, even defeating the then World Number 1 Maria Sharapova but she went down in the 4th round never to return to Paris again.
Steffi Graf
This Greatest of all German athletes often called as Fraulein Forehand has also been one of the Greatest Grand Slam performers.
Monica seles vs steffi graf french open 1989 highlights
Monica seles vs steffi graf french open 1989 highlights
Manu Günec ಅವರಿಂದ ಈ ದಿನದಂದು ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿದೆ ಗುರುವಾರ, ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ 23, 2010
Steffi won a total of 22 Slams in total 6 of whom came from the red dirt at Paris. She reached a total of 9 French Finals finishing a runner up on 3 occasions.
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Steffi’s 1st French Open win came against Martina Navratilova in 1987. Twelve years later she won her 4th and final Roland Garros against Swiss Star Martina Hingis. Two of her 3 defeats at Roland Garros came against her great rival Monica Seles and 1 against Spain’s Arantxa Sanchez
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The Steffi-Monica rivalry reached its highest summit in the great final of 1992 Roland Garros. The 3rd and final set was decided 10-8 in Seles’s favor but Steffi knew she had lost to a better player on that day.
Had the Seles stabbing episode not occurred, the tennis world could have seen more of Steffi-Monica slugfest in Paris.
Chris Evert
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We all fell in love with little Miss America when in 1973 aged just 18 she reached her 1st French final. It was the start of a decade and a half long mutual love affair where Evert would go on to reach 9 French finals and win 7 of them.
Evert could have won more French titles had she not opted out of the tournament for 3 years from 1976 to 1978, which were her prime years on the tour.
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Chrisse as she was lovingly called has been widely regarded as the greatest female Clay court player ever to have picked up a racket.
She holds the record of 125 consecutive match wins on clay, a feat that even Rafa Nadal could never equal.
The last of Evert’s Roland Garros titles came in 1986 at the age of 31. She competed in 13 French Opens and managed to reach the semifinal in 12 of them, a remarkable display of her supreme consistency on the surface.