French Open Facts

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• It is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar and the premier clay court tennis tournament of the ATP and WTA.
  


• Due to a slow playing surface some consider the Roland Garros as one of the most physically demanding tennis tournament.
  


• The only male players who have won both the French Open and Wimbledon are Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Andre Agassi, and Rafael Nadal.
  


• The two players that have the most consecutive wins in the French Open recently are Bjorn Borg and Rafael Nadal with a total four titles.
• The French Max Degugis is the player with more Ronald Garros titles, with a total of 8.
  


• In Women’s singles, the French Suzanne Lenglen has record of the most consecutive titles with a total of 4 and the American Chris Evert has the majority of titles with 7.
  


• The youngest singles champions in the French Open are Michael Chang (1989) with 17 years, 3 months and for women Monica Seles (1990) with 16 years, 6 months.