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2012 French Open – Men's singles final


The 2012 French Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2012 French Open, with Rafael Nadal defeating Novak Djokovic 6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 7–5. It was a Major final match of historic proportions for both players. Nadal was looking to become the first man to win seven French Open titles, thus breaking the record previously held by Björn Borg, who won six titles, and equalling the record held by Chris Evert, who won seven titles. Djokovic was trying to
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List of French Open men's singles champions


this record belongs to Andrés Gimeno, who was 34 years and 9 months old when he won in 1972. French players have won the most French Open men's singles titles, with 38 victories, followed by Spanish (18) and Australian players (11). The current champion is Rafael Nadal who beat Dominic Thiem in the 2019 final to win his twelfth French Open title. The French Open was established in 1891 and was originally known as the French Championships. The tournament was only open to French players or foreign players
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Henri Leconte


Henri Leconte (born 4 July 1963) is a former French professional tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at the French Open in 1988, won the French Open men's doubles title in 1984, and helped France win the Davis Cup in 1991. Leconte's career-high singles ranking was world No. 5. Leconte first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player who won the French Open junior title in 1981. He turned professional that year and won his first career doubles title
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2019 French Open – Men's Singles


Rafael Nadal was the two-time defending champion and won a record-extending twelfth French Open men's singles title, defeating Dominic Thiem in a rematch of the 2018 final, 6–3, 5–7, 6–1, 6–1. By winning the title, Nadal broke the all-time record for the most singles titles won by a player at the same Grand Slam tournament – a record he previously co-held with Margaret Court, who won the Australian Open eleven times. Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer were both attempting to achieve the
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Yevgeny Kafelnikov


Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov ( ; born 18 February 1974) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. He won two Grand Slam singles titles, the 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open. He also won four Grand Slam doubles titles, being the last man to have won both the men's singles and doubles titles at the same Grand Slam tournament, which he did at the 1996 French Open. Kafelnikov won the gold medal in the men's singles tournament at the 2000 Olympic Games, and was finalist at
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Ong Poh Lim


He won the Denmark Open men's doubles titles in 1950 and 1951 with Ismail Marjan. He also won the French Open men's singles and men's doubles titles in 1951, again with Ismail Marjan. Ong shared the All-England men's doubles title in 1954 with Ooi Teik Hock, having previously reached the finals of both singles and doubles at the All-Englands in 1951. As a pair, they also won the US Open men's doubles title in the same calendar year (1954). Ong played on
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Emilio Sánchez


won his first top-level singles title in Nice, France in 1986. He won 15 singles titles during his career, including the Italian Open (Tennis Masters Series event) in 1991. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 7. In men's doubles, Sánchez captured 50 men's doubles titles, including three at Grand Slam events. In 1988, he won the men's doubles titles at both the French Open (with Andrés Gómez) and the US Open (with Sergio Casal). He
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2010 French Open – Day-by-day summaries


won any Grand Slam women's singles titles before, this meant Francesca Schiavone became a first-time women's singles Grand Slam champion in this tournament. Rafael Nadal reclaimed the No. 1 men's singles ATP ranking, leaving Roger Federer only one week short of equalling Pete Sampras's record number of 286 weeks as the ATP No. 1 ranked men's singles player. This win is also the first time since the French Open 2004 that Roger Federer was knocked out by a player who hasn't won a grand slam tournament
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Yannick Noah


only one set during the two-week-long tournament, and defeated the defending champion, Sweden's Mats Wilander in straight sets in the final, 6–2, 7–5, 7–6. He remains the last and most recent Frenchman to have won the French Open men's singles title. Noah won the French Open men's doubles title in 1984 (with compatriot and best friend Henri Leconte). He was also the men's doubles runner-up at the 1985 U.S. Open (with Leconte), and the 1987 French Open
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2018 French Open


The 2018 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 27 May to 10 June and consisted of events for players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players also took part in singles and doubles events. Rafael Nadal (Spain) was the defending champion in the Men's Singles and won his 11th French Open title. Simona Halep (Romania) won her first Grand Slam title in Women's Singles
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Michael Stich


Michael Detlef Stich (born 18 October 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. He won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1991, the men's doubles titles at both Wimbledon and the Olympic Games in 1992, and was a singles runner-up at the 1994 US Open and the 1996 French Open. Stich won 18 singles titles and 10 doubles titles. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 2 in 1993. Stich was raised in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein. He turned professional
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Jimmy Connors


WCT's regular tournaments. In the open era, Connors is one of only six men to win three or more Grand Slam singles titles in a calendar year. The others are: Rod Laver who won the Grand Slam in 1969; Mats Wilander won the Australian, French and US Open in 1988; Roger Federer won the Australian, Wimbledon and US Open in 2004, 2006 and 2007; Rafael Nadal won the French, Wimbledon, and US Open in 2010; and Novak Djokovic won the Australian, Wimbledon, and US
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Tennis in India


been carrying the Indian flag in Men's singles category and have been ranked in the top 100 of the ATP rankings. There are also a few other players who have been representing the country in the Men's single category such as Ramkumar Ramanathan, Saketh Myneni, and Sumit Nagal. In 1997, India won their first Grand Slam title at the French open, in the Mixed Doubles. Since then Indians have won Grand Slam titles in the Mixed Doubles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles besides Girls' Doubles events.
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Pablo Cuevas


Pablo Gabriel Tito Cuevas Urroz (; born January 1, 1986) is an Uruguayan professional tennis player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open men's doubles title with Luis Horna. He has won six singles titles and has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 19. Cuevas' career-high doubles ranking is World no. 14, which he achieved in April 2009. At the 2007 French Open, Cuevas and Argentine partner Carlos Berlocq made the third round of the men's doubles tournament. Cuevas won the Tunica
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Roy Emerson


men's singles crowns was surpassed in 2019 by Novak Djokovic who won his record seventh. 1963 also saw Emerson capture his first French Championships singles title, beating Pierre Darmon in the final. Emerson's first Wimbledon singles title came in 1964, with a final victory over Fred Stolle. Emerson won 55 consecutive matches during 1964 and finished the year with 109 victories out of 115 matches. He won three of the year's four Grand Slam events that year (failing to win only the French Open). During his amateur career
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2017 Australian Open – Men's singles final


the first time since 2002. Contrasting Federer's consistent semi-finals and finals appearances in Grand Slams from 2015 Wimbledon onwards, Nadal failed to make a Grand Slam quarterfinal since the 2015 French Open. His last Grand Slam title win was the 2014 French Open and his last appearance in the Australian Open men's singles final was against Stan Wawrinka in 2014, which Wawrinka won in four sets. Nadal, however, won the Monte-Carlo Masters title in 2016, while Federer, for the first time since 2000, did
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2010 French Open – Day-by-day summaries


single No. 1 ranking in tennis since Rafael Nadal won the 2010 French Open men's singles title. Also, since Nadal became the 2010 French Open men's singles champion, Federer was left only one week short of equalling Pete Sampras's record number of 286 weeks as the ATP No. 1 ranked men's singles player. This day decided the last two of the four semifinalists in the women's singles. Since none of the four semifinalists (Samantha Stosur, Jelena Janković, Francesca Schiavone, and Elena Dementieva) had
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List of French Open men's singles champions


won his first title in 1984, before losing the following year to Wilander in the final and won two consecutive titles in 1986 and 1987. Michael Chang became the youngest man to win the French Open when he beat Stefan Edberg in 1989. American Jim Courier won consecutive titles in 1991 and 1992 before Spaniard Sergi Bruguera repeated the feat in 1993 and 1994. Gustavo Kuerten won three titles in 1997, 2000 and 2001. 2005 marked Rafael Nadal's first French Open; he won four consecutive titles from 2005 to 2008. Nadal
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Anders Järryd


of all four Grand Slam men's doubles titles. 1991 again saw Järryd capture three of the four men's doubles titles, as he partnered Fitzgerald to win the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, his last Grand Slam titles. Järryd reached his last Grand Slam doubles final at the 1993 Australian Open, partnering Fitzgerald again. Over the course of his career, Järryd won eight top-level singles titles and 59 tour doubles titles. His final singles title came in 1993 at Rotterdam. He won his final doubles title
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Ronald Holmberg


Tennis sites Holmberg as one of “the leading tennis players of his day.” He ranked among the top 10 in U.S. Men’s Singles nine times during the 1950s and 1960s, he was a semifinalist at the U.S. National Championships (the US Open), a quarter-finalist at the French (the French Open), won the singles title once and doubles title twice at the Canadian Open in Toronto and he won the U.S. National Indoor Doubles Championship among other titles. Steve Flink, a past editor of World Tennis
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Andrés Gómez


He won five doubles titles in 1980, and seven in 1981. In 1986, Gómez attained the world No. 1 doubles ranking. He won seven doubles events that year, including the US Open men's doubles title (partnering Slobodan Živojinović). Gómez won a second Grand Slam men's doubles title in 1988 at the French Open (partnering Emilio Sánchez). His first top-level singles title came in 1981 in Bordeaux. He then won the Italian Open in 1982, beating Eliot Teltscher in the final in three
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Luis Horna


Luis Horna Biscari (; born 14 September 1980 in Lima) is a former tour professional tennis player from Peru, who turned professional in 1998. Known by his nickname "Lucho", he won his 2 career singles titles, reached the quarterfinals of the 2004 Madrid Masters and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 33 in August 2004. Together with Pablo Cuevas, Horna also won the men's doubles at the 2008 French Open. At the 2003 French Open, he defeated Roger Federer in the first round
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2009 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final


fourteen major singles titles a month earlier at the 2009 French Open and was seeking to set a new standard of excellence in the men's game by capturing an unprecedented fifteenth championship. Former world number 1 Andy Roddick was looking to capture his first Wimbledon title and second Grand Slam, having won the 2003 US Open. The 2009 Wimbledon Men's Singles final was the fourth Grand Slam final that Federer and Roddick had contested and by far the most competitive. Federer had won all of the previous finals at the 2004 Wimbledon Championships,
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1975 French Open


The 1975 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 2 June until 15 June. It was the 79th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1975. Björn Borg won the men's singles title and Chris Evert won the women's single title. Björn Borg defeated Guillermo Vilas, 6–2, 6–3, 6–4 Chris Evert defeated Martina Navratilova, 2–6, 6–2, 6–1 Brian Gottfried / Raúl
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Marc Rosset


Marc Rosset (born 7 November 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland who is best remembered for winning the men's singles gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games. He also won one Grand Slam doubles title at the French Open in 1992 partnering compatriot Jakob Hlasek. Rosset turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour singles title in 1989 in Geneva as a wildcard, defeating Guillermo Pérez Roldán. His first doubles title was won in Geneva as well in 1991 with partner Sergi Bruguera. 1992 was the pinnacle of
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2019 French Open


The 2019 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from 26 May to 9 June, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair tournaments are also scheduled. Rafael Nadal was the defending champion in men's singles and won a record 12th French Open singles title. Simona Halep was the defending champion in the women's singles, but lost in the quarterfinals. It was the 123rd edition of the French Open
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John Fitzgerald (tennis)


John Basil Fitzgerald OAM (born 28 December 1960) is a former professional tennis player from Australia who played right-handed with a single-handed backhand. During his career, he won 6 top-tier singles titles and 30 tour doubles titles, including 7 Grand Slam doubles titles. He also achieved the career men's doubles Grand Slam (winning all four titles-the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open). He reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1991, teaming up with
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Roger Federer


to November 2016. He re-entered the top ten following his victory at the 2017 Australian Open. In majors, Federer has won a record eight Wimbledon titles, six Australian Open titles, five US Open titles (all consecutive, a record), and one French Open title. He is one of eight men to have achieved a Career Grand Slam. Federer has reached a record 31 men's singles Grand Slam finals, including 10 consecutively from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships to the 2007 US Open. Federer has also won
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Henri Kontinen


with John Peers and won the mixed doubles at the same tournament with Heather Watson. His win in the 2017 Australian Open men's doubles with Peers was his first Grand Slam title in men's doubles. Kontinen won the 2008 French Open boys' doubles title with Christopher Rungkat. He reached the final of the 2008 Wimbledon boys' singles which he lost to Grigor Dimitrov having beaten Bernard Tomic in the semi final. He also reached the final of the 2008 US Open boys' doubles with Rungkat. Subsequently, Kontinen's singles
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Elliot Benchetrit


Elliot Benchetrit (born 2 October 1998) is a French tennis player. Benchetrit made his Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2018 French Open after receiving a wildcard to the singles main draw, losing to Gaël Monfils in four sets in the first round. The following year he won his first round match in singles and doubles. He has won 3 singles titles on the ITF Men's Circuit and 2 doubles titles, as well as another dobules title on the ATP Challenger Tour. Benchetrit participated and won two gold medals
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Phil Dent


six more Men's Doubles finals in Grand Slam Tournaments, finishing runner-up at the Australian Open in 1970, 1973, and 1977, the French Open in 1975 and 1979 and Wimbledon in 1977. Dent was a member of the Australian tennis teams that won the Davis Cup in 1977 and the World Team Cup in 1979. Before turning professional, Dent won the Boys' Singles titles at both the Australian Open tournament and at the French Open in 1968. During his professional career, Dent won 3 top-level singles
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1994 French Open – Men's Singles


Sergi Bruguera was the defending champion, and he successfully defended his title by defeating compatriot Alberto Berasategui in the first ever all-Spanish men's singles final. Pete Sampras had the chance to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slam tournaments at once, having won the previous year's Wimbledon, U.S. Open and this year's Australian Open titles. He lost to Jim Courier in the quarterfinals. This feat would not be achieved by any man until Novak Djokovic did so in the 2016 French
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1992 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles


the same calendar year after winning the Australian Open and French Open earlier in the year; he also attempted to win the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon in the same calendar year for the first time since Rod Laver in 1969. He lost to qualifier Andrei Olhovskiy in the third round, it would not be until 2010 that hard court, clay and grass Grand Slam titles would be won by one man in a single calendar year, when Rafael Nadal won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open. 1992 was the
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2011 French Open – Men's Singles


no. 1 singles ranking by defending the title. Nadal and Novak Djokovic were in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament. This edition of the tournament witnessed the top four seeds advancing to the semifinals. The tournament saw the end of the streak of Djokovic, who was one away from tying John McEnroe for best start to a season with 42 wins, before he was defeated by Federer in the semifinals. Although this was the sixth time that Nadal won the French Open, this was the first time
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Tom Okker


won 40 singles titles. He also was the runner-up in 37 singles tournaments. Okker is also among the most successful men's doubles players of all time. Okker won two Grand Slam doubles titles, the US Open in 1976 (with Riessen) and the French Open (with John Newcombe) in 1973. In total, Okker won 78 doubles events, a record that was finally broken by Todd Woodbridge in 2005. Okker's other doubles titles include the 1973 Italian Open, 1973 London Grass Courts (with Riessen
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1912 World Hard Court Championships


(ILTF), the others being the World Grass Court Championships (Wimbledon) and the World Covered Court Championships held in a variety of countries. The WHCC was open to all nationalities unlike the French Championships which were open only to tennis players who were licensed in France. The 1912 WHCC consisted of a men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles and mixed doubles event. The women's doubles event was not scheduled. The singles titles were won by Otto Froitzheim and Marguerite Broquedis. Otto Froitzheim defeated Oscar Kreuzer
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Anders Järryd


Boris Becker in the final, while he and Edberg were the men's doubles runners-up at the French Open. Järryd won three of the four Grand Slam men's doubles titles in 1987, at the Australian Open (partnering Edberg), French Open (partnering Robert Seguso) and US Open (partnering Edberg). Järryd was also a member of Swedish team which won the Davis Cup that year. He won two singles rubbers in the final where Sweden beat India 5–0. (Järryd also played on 3 Swedish teams
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Martin Legner


Martin Legner (born December 17, 1961 in Tyrol) is a professional Austrian wheelchair tennis player who has been ranked number one for wheelchair doubles. Legner has won the Australian Open doubles title four times with Robin Ammerlaan since 2000, and has won eight doubles titles. Six of them are Australian Open Titles, the other two being French Open titles. He has won one French Open and one Australian Open singles title. He has represented his country at every Summer Paralympics since 1992, and has competed in both singles and doubles
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2011 Australian Open – Men's Singles


Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray 6–4, 6–2, 6–3 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2011 Australian Open. It was Djokovic's second title at the Australian Open, and second Major title overall. Roger Federer was the defending champion, but was defeated in the semifinals by Djokovic. Rafael Nadal, the 2009 champion, had the chance to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slam tournaments at once, having won the French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open
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Egan Adams


singles performance in a Grand Prix tournament. At the 1985 French Open he featured in both the singles and men's doubles event. He lost to Andrei Chesnokov in the opening round of the singles and in the doubles he and partner Stanislav Birner had to face second seeds Ken Flach and Robert Seguso. He also played at the 1985 US Open, in the men's doubles with Mark Wooldridge. Adams won two Challenger titles in doubles, the second in Lagos in 1985. The title in Lagos came in the same month that
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2012 French Open


Roland Garros in Paris. The Men's Singles Final was won by Rafael Nadal by defeating Novak Djokovic in the final. By winning his seventh title at Roland Garros, Nadal surpassed Borg's overall titles record to become the most successful tennis player in French Open history. The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2012 ATP World Tour and the 2012 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws
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List of French Open men's singles champions


it was the first Grand Slam tournament to open it's doors to non-amateur players. The winner of the men's singles event receives the Coupe des Mousquetaires, named after The Four Musketeers of French tennis: Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, and René Lacoste. The event was not held from 1915 to 1919 because of the First World War and was held unofficially under German occupation from 1941 to 1944, during the Second World War. Rafael Nadal has won the most French Open titles, with twelve (
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2018 Rafael Nadal tennis season


record-extending 11th French Open title, equalling the record for most titles won in a single major by either men or women held by Margaret Court with her 11 titles in the Australian Open. His win was also his 17th major singles title, which is 2nd on the men’s Open Era list behind only Roger Federer. Nadal's schedule for 2018 included the Queen's Club Championships, but in the week before he chose to withdraw from the tournament to be able to recover after the clay court season. He chose to
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Sergio Casal


Open in 1988 and the French Open in 1990. The pair were also the men's doubles runners-up at Wimbledon in 1987 and won the Silver Medal for Spain at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Casal also won the US Open mixed doubles title in 1986, partnering Raffaella Reggi. Casal's career-high doubles ranking was World No. 3. Casal also won one top-level singles title at Florence in 1985. He was a singles runner-up at Aix-en-Provence in 1983, and at
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Constant Lestienne


Constant Lestienne (; born 23 May 1992) is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ITF Men's Circuit and ATP Challenger Tour. He has won two ATP Challenger Tour singles titles. In addition, he has won five singles titles and three doubles titles in the ITF Men's Circuit. Lestienne reached his first career ATP Tour singles main draw (where he lost in the first round to Pablo Carreño Busta) at the 2015 Estoril Open after winning two singles qualifying matches. In September 2016 Lestienne was suspended
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Ismail Marjan


in the Thomas Cup. In 1953 and 1956, he again won the Malaysia Open men's doubles titles with Ong. As a pair, they also won consecutive Singapore Open men's doubles titles from 1950 to 1956. Ismail's doubles partnership with Ong was described by Wong Peng Soon as "the best doubles combination" he had ever seen. In the 1951 French Open men's singles semi-final, Ismail gave Ong a walkover so that the latter would be better rested for his final match against Wong Peng Soon.
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Mats Wilander


Mats Wilander (; born 22 August 1964) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 to 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at the French Open, three at the Australian Open, and one at the US Open), and one Grand Slam men's doubles title (at Wimbledon). His breakthrough came suddenly and unexpected (even in Sweden), as he won the 1982 French Open. More or less simultaneously with countryman Björn Borg's decision to quit tennis.
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2009 Australian Open – Men's singles final


the French Open for the first (and, as of 2018, only) time completed his own Career Grand Slam and equalled Pete Sampras' then-record of 14 Major titles. Nadal later withdrew from Wimbledon due to a knee injury, while Federer, who lost to Nadal in the previous year's final, would regain the title and return to world number one in the rankings, displacing Nadal who dropped to No. 2 as a result of being unable to defend the Wimbledon title which he won in 2008. Just
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Bruce McGregor


in 1927 on the day Bruce won his second Magarey Medal and son Ken McGregor (born 1929) who went on to play for both West Adelaide and South Australia with distinction in the 1950s. Ken also played tennis at the highest level including representing Australia in three Davis Cup-winning sides (1950, 1951 and 1952) and won the 1952 Australian Open tennis – Men's Singles title at Adelaide's Memorial Drive, as well as the 1951 and 1952 Australian, French and Wimbledon and 1951 US Open men's doubles championships
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Goran Ivanišević


the Australian Open. Ivanišević made his first significant impact on the tour in 1990, knocking Boris Becker out of the first round of the French Open men's singles; he went on to reach the quarterfinals. He was also, with Petr Korda, the runner-up in the French Open men's doubles. At that year's Wimbledon, Ivanišević reached the semifinals, where he lost to Becker in four sets. Ivanišević also won his first tour singles title in 1990 at Stuttgart and helped Yugoslavia win the World Team Cup
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Jeff Tarango


, he won 2 top-level professional singles titles and 14 doubles titles. Tarango reached two Super 9 quarterfinals: Rome in 1995 and Miami in 1998. His career-high world rankings were No. 42 in singles and No. 10 in doubles. He was runner-up in the men's doubles at the 1999 French Open (partnering with Goran Ivanišević). In the third round trailing 6–7 1–3 to Alexander Mronz, Tarango became infuriated with French umpire Bruno Rebeuh, who had ruled against Tarango several times. During
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2013 French Open


The 2013 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 117th edition of the French Open and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros from 26 May to 9 June. It consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players also took part in singles and doubles events. Rafael Nadal was the three-time defending champion in the men's singles, and won the title to become the first
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1988 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles


Laver in 1969. After losing to Miloslav Mečíř in the quarterfinals, it would not be until 2010 that hard court, clay and grass Grand Slam titles would be won by one man in a single calendar year, when Rafael Nadal won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open. As of 2019, Rod Laver's record of winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon in the same calendar year has not been broken. John McEnroe competed for the first time since 1985, losing in the second round to Wally Masur
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Ippei Kojima


Ippei Kojima (born 1944) is a former Japanese badminton player who won a record eight Japanese national men's singles titles and some major international titles between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. His game was marked by exceptional foot speed, great tenacity, and power surprising for a man who was about five feet (1.524 meters) tall. Kojima is the first of only two Japanese players to have won men's singles at the prestigious Danish Open (1970). He also shared the Danish Open men's doubles title, with
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John McEnroe


Wimbledon Doubles title, followed shortly by a win in the US Open Doubles. That same week, McEnroe won men's singles US Open title, his first Grand Slam singles title. He defeated his friend Vitas Gerulaitis in straight sets in the final to become the youngest male winner of the singles title at the US Open since Pancho Gonzales, who was also 20 in 1948. He also won the prestigious season-ending WCT Finals, beating Björn Borg in four sets. McEnroe won 10 singles and 17 doubles titles that year
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2012 French Open


The 2012 French Open (also known as Roland Garros, after the famous French aviator) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 116th edition of the French Open, and took place at the Stade Roland Garros from 27 May until 11 June 2012. Rafael Nadal won the tournament for the third year in succession, and the seventh time in eight years, defeating first-time Roland Garros finalist Novak Djokovic. His seventh title broke Björn Borg's record of six French Open Men's Singles titles,
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List of Grand Slam related tennis records


Players with at least 5 singles titles during the Open Era. Players who reached at least 10 singles finals during the Open Era. Titles won are within parentheses. Men Women These players did not lose a set during the course of their listed title runs. Men Women These players won the title of the final Grand Slam tournament they played. Men Women These players saved at least one match point during their listed title runs. Note that the round of the tournament in which match points were saved is listed as follows: .
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2008 Wimbledon Championships – Day-by-day summaries


was Serena & Venus' third in Wimbledon, and the seventh overall together, since the 1999 French Open. The win also marked the third time the sisters won the doubles title of Wimbledon while one of them won the singles title, and the second in which they won the doubles while both of them played the singles final. The final Sunday, featuring the men's singles final, saw Rafael Nadal win the first Wimbledon title of his career and fifth Grand Slam tournament. No. 1 seed and five-time champion
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List of French Open men's singles champions


which is also a record for any player, male or female, in any one of the four major tournaments) and also holds the record for the most consecutive wins in the Open Era, with five from 2010 to 2014. Max Decugis won eight French Championships prior to the Open Era. Michael Chang became the youngest player to win the French Open when he took the title in 1989 at . In contrast, André Vacherot is the oldest champion, having won in 1901 at 40 years old. In the Open era,
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2009 French Open – Men's Singles


Rafael Nadal was the four-time defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Robin Söderling in a huge upset. This was Nadal's first defeat at the French Open, having won the title in all four of his previous appearances at Roland Garros since debuting in 2005. With Nadal's loss, there would be a first time French Open champion for 2009. Roger Federer beat Söderling in the final 6–1, 7–6, 6–4 to win his first French Open title, complete the career Grand Slam, and equal Pete
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2013 French Open – Men's Singles


-Spanish Grand Slam final for the first time since 2002. In beating Ferrer in the final, Nadal became the first man in history to win any Grand Slam tournament eight times and overtook Björn Borg and Rod Laver in total Grand Slam titles with 12, tying with Australian Roy Emerson. He also tied with Max Decugis, who won eight titles when the tournament was only open to French club members. Despite the victory, Nadal dropped one place down the rankings to world no. 5, in the week beginning 10 June
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2014 US Open – Men's Singles


the 2005 French Open (where Nadal defeated Mariano Puerta). Nishikori and Čilić were also the two lowest-ranked seeds to reach the US Open final since Pete Sampras won the title in 2002 as 17th seed. As of Wimbledon 2019, this is the last Grand Slam where none of the Big Four has featured in the final since 2005 Australian Open. Čilić beat Nishikori 6–3, 6–3, 6–3 to become the second Croatian to win a Grand Slam men's singles title after his coach Goran Ivanišević triumphed at 2001 Wimbledon.
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2017 Australian Open – Men's singles final


win additional majors to once again close the gap between their respective Grand Slam singles title count. Due to the form shown by both players, both McEnroe brothers say that Federer and Nadal could very well win at their respective most successful Slams of Wimbledon and the French Open ahead. This prediction proved out to be correct, as later in the year Nadal and Federer, won French Open and Wimbledon respectively, both without dropping a set. Nadal also won the US Open later the same year. In 2018, Federer successfully defended
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2015 French Open


. Stan Wawrinka won his first French Open title, defeating Djokovic in the final. Maria Sharapova was defending the Women's Singles title, but lost to Lucie Šafářová in the fourth round. Serena Williams defeated Šafářová in the final and won her third French Open title, 20th Grand Slam Singles title, and third Career Grand Slam. The 2015 French Open was the 114th edition of the French Open and was held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris. The tournament is an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and
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2010 French Open – Men's Singles


Roger Federer was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Robin Söderling in the rematch of the previous year's final. This was the first time since the 2004 French Open that Federer did not reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament. Between the 2004 French Open and the 2017 French Open, this was the only Grand Slam not to feature either Federer or Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. Rafael Nadal won his fifth French Open title by defeating Söderling in the final, 6–4, 6–2, 6–4, in a
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1982 French Open – Men's Singles


Björn Borg was the four-time defending champion but announced his retirement from the sport in 1981. World number one John McEnroe withdrew with an ankle injury. Unseeded Mats Wilander (ranked no. 18) defeated Guillermo Vilas 1–6, 7–6, 6–0, 6–4 in the final to win the title at the 1982 French Open. Wilander won the 1981 French Open boy's title one year earlier. This was Wilander's first ATP tour level title, the next time that a man would score his first tour win at a Grand
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Brian Gottfried


" described him as the "best male tennis player in the world at the moment" in April 1977, while "World Tennis" and "Tennis Magazine" ranked him as N°4 in their 1977's year-end rankings. He won the Italian Open doubles championship in four consecutive years (1974–77). He won the men's doubles at the French Open in 1975 and 1977. In 1976, he won the men's doubles title at Wimbledon. He ended his career tied for 22nd in open era singles
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Ong Poh Lim


also created history by capturing the Singapore Open singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles over three consecutive years, from 1953 to 1955. Ong held the Malaysia Open men's singles title two times in 1954 and 1956, the men's doubles title four times in 1950, 1953, 1956 with Ismail Marjan and in 1955 with Ooi Teik Hock. Ong also won many international titles in his tour of Europe and US. He won both the Irish Open men's singles and men's doubles titles in 1949 with Lim Kee Fong.
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Leander Paes


38. Paes and Bhupathi took part in the men's doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, who went on to win the men's doubles gold medal. Later in 2008, with Cara Black, he won the 2008 US Open mixed double title. In 2009, he won the French Open and US Open Men's doubles titles with Lukáš Dlouhý and was the runner-up in mixed doubles at the US Open. He began the 2010 season
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2004 in tennis


side courts with limited seating. Chile won the most medals (three), two of which were gold, led by Nicolás Massú, who won the men's singles, and partnered by Fernando González, also helped Chile take gold in the doubles. The year 2004 was well known for the breakthrough of Russian players into the WTA Tour. At the French Open, Anastasia Myskina became the first woman from Russia to win a Grand Slam singles title, by defeating compatriot Elena Dementieva in the final, 6–1, 6–2. A
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2004 US Open – Women's Singles


Svetlana Kuznetsova won the title, defeating compatriot Elena Dementieva in the final, 6–3, 7–5, to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2004 US Open. She became the third Russian woman, after Anastasia Myskina and Maria Sharapova (who won the French Open and Wimbledon, respectively, earlier in the season), to win a Grand Slam that year. This was also the second-ever all-Russian Grand Slam final, the first being at the French Open earlier in the year, where Myskina also defeated
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Anders Järryd


title in 1981 in Linz, Austria. One year later he captured his first top-level singles title, also at Linz. In 1983, Järryd won his first Grand Slam doubles title at the French Open, partnering his fellow Swede Hans Simonsson. Järryd had a strong year in 1984, winning two singles and five doubles titles. He also finished runner-up in the men's doubles at the US Open that year, partnering Stefan Edberg. 1985 saw Järryd's career-best Grand Slam singles performance, when he
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2014 French Open


final to win his 9th French Open title and his 14th Grand Slam title. The victory made Nadal the first tennis player to have won 5 consecutive French Open titles, in addition to becoming the only man with at least one Grand Slam title in 10 consecutive years. Serena Williams was the defending women's singles champion. Williams failed to defend her title, losing to Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round. Maria Sharapova won the women's singles, defeating Simona Halep to win her second French Open title and her 5th Grand Slam
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2006 French Open – Men's Singles


Rafael Nadal was the defending champion, and successfully defended his title in the final 1–6, 6–1, 6–4, 7–6, against Roger Federer. This was Federer's first defeat in a grand slam final. Roger Federer had the chance to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slam tournaments at once, having won the preceding Wimbledon, U.S. Open and Australian Open titles. This feat would ultimately be achieved a decade later by Novak Djokovic, at the same tournament, who reached the quarterfinals at
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List of French Open men's singles champions


players were allowed to compete with amateurs, previously only amateurs could compete in the Grand Slam tournaments. The tournament, won by Australian Ken Rosewall, was the first Grand Slam tournament to be played in the Open era. Swede Björn Borg won the majority of the tournaments in the early years of the Open era. He won consecutive titles in 1974 and 1975, before winning four successive titles from 1978 to 1981. Yannick Noah became the first Frenchman to win the event since 1946, when he won in 1983. Ivan Lendl
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Belinda Bencic


Antonia Lottner in the French Open final and Townsend in the Wimbledon final. The victory over Townsend was a rematch of their quarterfinal at the French Open, which finished 9–7 in the third and final set. Bencic became the first player to win the girls' singles titles at the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year since Amelie Mauresmo in 1996. She was also the first Swiss girl to win a junior Grand Slam singles title since Martina Hingis in 1994, who won the same two titles that year. Bencic's win
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Patrick McEnroe


win the NCAA team championship in 1986 and 1988. While at Stanford, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. McEnroe graduated from Stanford in 1988 with a degree in political science, and then joined the professional tennis tour. In 1989, McEnroe won the French Open Men's Doubles title and the Masters doubles title partnering with Jim Grabb. His first career singles final came in 1991 at Chicago, where he faced his brother John, who won the match 3–6, 6–2, 6–4. (This was the
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2017 French Open – Men's Singles


Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but was defeated by Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals. This was the first time since 2010 that Djokovic did not reach at least the semifinals at Roland Garros, and it was also the first time since 2009 that Djokovic lost a match in straight sets at Roland Garros. Rafael Nadal won his 10th French Open title (his first since 2014) and 15th Grand Slam singles title, defeating Stan Wawrinka in the final, 6–2, 6–3, 6–1. Nadal is the only male player to ever
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List of French Open men's singles champions


who were a member of a French club during the first 34 years of its existence. The first winner of the Championship was the British player H. Briggs, a member of Club Stade Français which entitled him to compete. Records show matches were played as the best-of-three sets format until 1902 or 1903, when best-of-five sets was adopted. French players were dominant in the early stages of the tournament, in particular Max Decugis, who won eight titles before the outbreak of the First World War
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2018 French Open – Women's Singles


World No. 1 Simona Halep won her first Grand Slam title, defeating Sloane Stephens in the final, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2018 French Open. She became the second Romanian woman to win a Grand Slam title in senior singles after the 1978 French Open champion Virginia Ruzici. She also became the sixth woman to win both the senior and junior title, having won the latter in 2008. Halep retained the WTA no. 1 singles ranking after defeating fellow contender Garbiñe Muguruza
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Robert S. McCoig


Robert S. McCoig (1937–1998) was a Scottish badminton player who won numerous national and international titles from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. Though he captured a record fifteen Scottish National singles titles, as well as several Scottish Open singles titles, his greatest international victories came in doubles. He was especially successful in three North American forays which yielded a pair of U.S. Open men's doubles titles (1963, 1965), a pair of Canadian Open men's doubles titles (1963, 1969), and the mixed doubles title
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Ilie Năstase


in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championship titles and seven Championship Series titles (1970–73), the precursors to the current Masters 1000. Năstase wrote several novels in French in the 1980s. He is the first male player to have won a French Open title without dropping a set (1973). At the beginning of his career in 1966, Năstase travelled around the world competing with his good friend Ion Țiriac. Together, they represented
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2008 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles


Rafael Nadal defeated the five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final, 6–4, 6–4, 6–7, 6–7, 9–7 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. Nadal won his fifth Grand Slam title, and his first outside of the French Open. It was also the first time Federer had ever lost a Grand Slam final outside of the French Open. It was the second longest championship match(in terms of time played)with play lasting 4 hours and 48 minutes, and with two rain delays.
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Guy Forget


, France faced the United States. Forget teamed up with Henri Leconte to win the doubles rubber, and then won the decisive singles rubber against Pete Sampras as France shocked the heavily favoured US team to win 3–1. 1996 was another notable year in Forget's career. Partnering Jakob Hlasek, he again finished runner-up in the men's doubles event at the French Open. He also won what proved to be his last career singles title in Marseille. For a second time, he was on a French team which won
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Diede de Groot


first US Open singles title at the 2018 US Open. In 2019, de Groot rewon the Australian Open title in singles competition at the 2019 Australian Open. At the 2019 French Open, de Groot completed her career Grand Slam when she won her first French Open singles title. Her French Open title also made de Groot the first wheelchair tennis player to win all four Grand Slam singles events in a row. At the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, de Groot ended her back to back singles wins when she was defeated by Aniek van
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2008 US Open – Men's Singles


attempting to become the first British player to win a Grand Slam title since Fred Perry in 1936, but lost to Federer in the final. Murray would eventually win the title at this event four years later. Rafael Nadal had a chance to win Grand Slams on clay, grass and hard courts in the same calendar year, after having won this year's French Open and Wimbledon, and could have become the first man to win the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open since Rod Laver did it in 1969, but he
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2018 French Open – Men's Singles


Rafael Nadal was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Dominic Thiem in the final, 6–4, 6–3, 6–2. Nadal equaled Margaret Court's all-time record of 11 Grand Slam singles titles won at one major and became the first player to achieve that feat in the Open Era. He dropped only one set during the entire tournament (losing the first set of his quarterfinal match against Diego Schwartzman). Nadal also retained the ATP No. 1 singles ranking by defending the title. Nadal and Roger Federer
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Shi Yuqi


Shi Yuqi (; Mandarin pronunciation: ; born 28 February 1996) is a Chinese badminton player. Shi Yuqi won his first SuperSeries title in the 2016 French Super Series. At the 2017 All England Open, he defeated 6-time champion Lin Dan to reach the final, and repeated the same feat again at the 2018 All England Open, where he outclassed Lin Dan in the tournament final, winning the most prestigious tournament of his career. "Men's singles" "Men's singles" "Boys' singles" "Boys'
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2013 French Open


man to win the same Grand Slam title eight times. Maria Sharapova was the defending champion in women's singles, but lost in the final to Serena Williams. This championship was the third time in grand slam history that two multiple slam sets were accomplished in two different disciplines, and that was Serena Williams in Women's Singles, and her fellow countrymen Bob and Mike Bryan in Men's Doubles. At the 1969 US Open, Rod Laver won his multiple slam set in Men's Singles, and his fellow countryman Ken Rosewall
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Marc-Kevin Goellner


won his first tour doubles title in Rotterdam, partnering David Prinosil. Goellner and Prinosil were also the men's doubles runners-up at the French Open that year. And Goellner was a member of the German team which won the 1993 Davis Cup, winning important singles rubbers in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. In 1996, Goellner won a second top-level singles title at Marbella. He represented Germany at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round
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2019 French Open – Women's Singles


Ashleigh Barty won her first Grand Slam singles title, defeating Markéta Vondroušová in the final, 6–1, 6–3 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2019 French Open. Barty was the first Australian player, male or female, to win a French Open singles title since Margaret Court in 1973. Vondroušová was the first teenager to reach a French Open women's singles final since Ana Ivanovic in 2007, as well as the first teenager to reach a Grand Slam women's singles final since Caroline Wozniacki at the 2009 US
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2008 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final


in tennis history. As they entered the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, the two men had combined to win 14 of the previous 16 Grand Slam titles. The 2008 Wimbledon Men's Singles final was the third consecutive year in which Federer and Nadal had met in the finals of Wimbledon. Federer had won not only both previous meetings, but had also been the Wimbledon champion five years in a row and was now trying to become champion for a sixth consecutive year. Nadal, on the other hand, had just won the French Open
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Nancy Richey


Nancy Richey (born August 23, 1942) is a former tennis player from the United States, who won two Grand Slam singles titles (1967 Australian Championships and 1968 French Open) and four Grand Slam women's doubles titles (1965 U.S. Championships and 1966 Australian, Wimbledon, and U.S. Championships). She was ranked World No. 2 in singles at year-end in 1969. Richey won 69 singles titles during her career and helped the U.S. win the Federation Cup in 1969. She won the singles title at the
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Dana Gilbert


U.S. Clay Court Championships, on her professional debut. En route to the final, which she won over Viviana González, she had a win against second seed Virginia Ruzici, who two-months earlier had won the French Open. In October, 1980 she won her second WTA singles title at Nagoya and also won the Japan Open doubles title in the same month. She made the fourth round of the 1982 French Open as a lucky loser. In early 1983 she was ranked a career best 46 in the world, before
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1989 French Open – Women's Singles


17-year-old Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated two-time defending champion Steffi Graf in the final, 7–6, 3–6, 7–5, to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1989 French Open. This ended Graf's winning streak of Grand Slam singles titles at five. Graf served for the championship at 5–3 in the third set, but lost the game at love and won only three more points in the match from that point. It was the first of Sánchez Vicario's three French Open titles, which she also won
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Clay court


Open was played on Har-Tru clay courts. Rafael Nadal, winner of twelve French Open men's singles titles, is noted for his success on clay; since his debut in 2005, he has only lost twice at the tournament – in 2009 and 2015. Nadal holds the record for the longest winning streak by any male player on a single surface since the tennis open era began in 1968: 81 clay court wins between April 2005 and May 2007. He also holds the record for most titles won on clay in
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Mary Pierce


2000 French Open; Pierce is the last French player, male or female, to win the latter title. She won the doubles event at the 2000 French Open with Martina Hingis as her partner, and reached an additional Grand Slam women's doubles final at the 2000 Australian Open, also partnering Hingis. She also won the mixed doubles event at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships, partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi. Pierce won 18 WTA singles titles and 10 WTA doubles titles, including five Tier I singles events. She also twice reached the
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Clay court


the open era with 55 trophies. Guillermo Vilas won 49 of his 62 singles titles on clay. Thomas Muster is also considered a successful clay court player; although he only won the French Open once, 40 out of his 44 career singles titles were won on clay. On the women's side, Justine Henin and Monica Seles hold the record for the number of consecutive French Open titles won at three (1990–1992 for Seles and 2005–2007 for Henin). In the pre-open era this feat was first achieved by Helen
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1996 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles


1990 French Open, none of the semifinalists had previously won a Grand Slam title. Of these four, Todd Martin reached the Grand Slam final before. A number of high-seeded men were eliminated early, including 1992 champion Andre Agassi (No. 3), reigning French Open champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov (No. 5), Michael Chang (No. 6), and 1993 finalist Jim Courier (No. 9), all in the first round. Three-time champion Boris Becker, seeded no. 2,
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Prakash Padukone


. He also won the senior title the same year. He won the National title consecutively for the next seven years. In 1978, he won his first major international title, the men's singles gold medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. In 1979, he won the "Evening of Champions" at the Royal Albert Hall, London. In 1980, he won the Danish Open, the Swedish Open and became the first Indian to win the men's singles title at the All England Championship with a
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