Roland Garros
From baseline battles to clay-court magic, dive into the latest WTA Roland Garros news. We cover the drama, breakthroughs, and unforgettable moments from Paris — where legends rise and dreams are forged in red dust. Passionate, independent, and 100% fan-fueled.
Roland Garros Champions and Finals (1968-2025)
2025 Coco Gauff def. Aryna Sabalenka 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-4
2024 Iga Swiatek def. Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1
2023 Iga Swiatek def. Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
2022 Iga Swiatek def. Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-3
2021 Barbora Krejcikova def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4
2020 Iga Swiatek def. Sofia Kenin 6-4, 6-1
2019 Ashleigh Barty def. Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 6-3
2018 Simona Halep def. Sloane Stephens 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
2017 Jelena Ostapenko def. Simona Halep 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
2016 Garbiñe Muguruza def. Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4
2015 Serena Williams def. Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-2
2014 Maria Sharapova def. Simona Halep 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-4
2013 Serena Williams def. Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4
2012 Maria Sharapova def. Sara Errani 6-3, 6-2
2011 Li Na def. Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6(0)
2010 Francesca Schiavone def. Samantha Stosur 6-4, 7-6(2)
2009 Svetlana Kuznetsova def. Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2
2008 Ana Ivanovic def. Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-3
2007 Justine Henin def. Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 6-2
2006 Justine Henin def. Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-4
2005 Justine Henin def. Mary Pierce 6-1, 6-1
2004 Anastasia Myskina def. Elena Dementieva 6-1, 6-2
2003 Justine Henin def. Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-4
2002 Serena Williams def. Venus Williams 7-5, 6-3
2001 Jennifer Capriati def. Kim Clijsters 1-6, 6-4, 12-10
2000 Mary Pierce def. Conchita Martínez 6-2, 7-5
1999 Steffi Graf def. Martina Hingis 4–6, 7–5, 6–2
1998 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario def. Monica Seles 7–6(5), 0–6, 6–2
1997 Iva Majoli def. Martina Hingis 6–4, 6–2
1996 Steffi Graf def. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–3, 6–7(4), 10–8
1995 Steffi Graf def. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 7–5, 4–6, 6–0
1994 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario def. Mary Pierce 6–4, 6–4
1993 Steffi Graf def. Mary Joe Fernández 4–6, 6–2, 6–4
1992 Monica Seles def. Steffi Graf 6–2, 3–6, 10–8
1991 Monica Seles def. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–3, 6–4
1990 Monica Seles def. Steffi Graf 7–6(8–6), 6–4
1989 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario def. Steffi Graf 7–6(6), 3–6, 7–5
1988 Steffi Graf def. Natasha Zvereva 6–0, 6–0
1987 Steffi Graf def. Martina Navratilova 6–4, 4–6, 8–6
1986 Chris Evert def. Martina Navratilova 2–6, 6–3, 6–3
1985 Chris Evert def. Martina Navratilova 6–3, 6–7(4), 7–5
1984 Martina Navratilova def. Chris Evert 6–3, 6–1
1983 Chris Evert def. Mima Jaušovec 6–1, 6–2
1982 Martina Navratilova def. Andrea Jaeger 7–6(6), 6–1
1981 Hana Mandlíková def. Sylvia Hanika 6–2, 6–4
1980 Chris Evert def. Virginia Ruzici 6–0, 6–3
1979 Chris Evert def. Wendy Turnbull 6–2, 6–0
1978 Virginia Ruzici def. Mima Jaušovec 6–2, 6–2
1977 Mima Jaušovec def. Florența Mihai 6–2, 6–7(5), 6–1
1976 Sue Barker def. Renáta Tomanová 6–2, 0–6, 6–2
1975 Chris Evert def. Martina Navratilova 2–6, 6–2, 6–1
1974 Chris Evert def. Olga Morozova 6–1, 6–2
1973 Margaret Court def. Chris Evert 6–7(5), 7–6(6), 6–4
1972 Billie Jean King def. Evonne Goolagong 6–3, 6–3
1971 Evonne Goolagong def. Helen Gourlay 6–3, 7–5
1970 Margaret Court def. Helga Niessen 6–2, 6–4
1969 Margaret Court def. Ann Haydon Jones 6–1, 4–6, 6–3
1968 Nancy Richey def. Ann Haydon Jones 5–7, 6–4, 6–1
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French Open 2026 Women’s Earnings: Find Out How Much Sabalenka, Coco Gauff, Madison Keys, Andreeva and Every WTA Player Earned
Updated for Roland Garros 2026, the French Open offers far more than a champion’s cheque. Every round carries its own ranking-points reward and prize-money payout — and at RallyHer, we track exactly how much each woman earns depending on where her Paris campaign came to an end. Lost in the opening round? You’ll find her…
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Conchita Martínez and Mirra Andreeva Turned a Coaching Bond Into Roland Garros History
Conchita Martínez has always understood what softness can do to power. She knew it as a player, long before coaching boxes became part of her life. She knew it when she won Wimbledon in 1994 with patience, timing, variety and that elegant one-handed backhand, beating Martina Navratilova on grass when Spanish tennis was still mainly…
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Mirra Andreeva Wins Roland Garros Twelve Years After Maria Sharapova as Maja Chwalinska Finally Runs Out of Road
For five games, Maja Chwalińska still had the magic. After nine matches, three weeks, qualifying courts, impossible wins, hotel worries, slices, moonballs, drop shots and one of the great modern Grand Slam stories, the Pole was still there in the French Open final, still making Mirra Andreeva think, still making the ball arrive in awkward…
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Mirra Andreeva Looks Like the Future While Maja Chwalinska Makes Tennis Remember Its Past
The 2026 French Open final is not the one most people wrote down when the draw came out. No one wrote that down on the planet. No one. That is usually said as a polite way of describing chaos. This time it feels more generous than that. Mirra Andreeva against Maja Chwalinska is not a…
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Only Wimbledon Can Stumble Over the Maja Chwalińska Wildcard No-Brainer
Wimbledon may soon face the kind of problem that sounds too absurd to be real. What happens if the French Open champion is not even in the Wimbledon main draw? That is the strange little trap now forming around Maja Chwalinska, whose Paris fairytale has already gone far beyond tennis romance. The Polish qualifier began…
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It Took a Qualifier Named Chwalinska to Inject Natural Flair Back Into Women’s Tennis
The reward is the 2026 French Open final. Maja Chwalinska arrived in Paris as a qualifier who had never played the Roland Garros main draw. Now she is one win from winning it. Not as a ball-striking machine. Not as another player trying to blast every point into submission. She has done it with topspin,…
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Mirra Andreeva Steers Every Rally and Ends Marta Kostyuk’s Perfect Clay Run at the French Open
Mirra Andreeva looked more focused than ever. Not louder. Not wilder. Not carried by the occasion. Focused. The 19-year-old walked into her second French Open semi-final against a player who had not lost on clay all year, then played as if she had been given the keys to every rally. Marta Kostyuk arrived with a…
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Marta Kostyuk Brings an Untouched Clay Season Into a Semi-Final That Will Not Pretend to Be Just Tennis
Marta Kostyuk has spent this clay season turning pressure into fuel. Rouen started it. Madrid made it impossible to ignore. Paris has made it historic. The 23-year-old from Kyiv is still unbeaten on clay this year, still carrying that remarkable 17-0 record, and now stands one match from a first Grand Slam final. Across the…
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Maja Chwalinska Could Barely Budget for Paris. Now She Is One Win From the French Open Final
Maja Chwalinska wondered a week ago whether she could even afford to book another week in a Paris hotel. Now Paris may have to keep booking space for her. The Polish qualifier, ranked world No. 114 when this French Open began, beat Anna Kalinskaya 7-6(3), 6-3 to reach the semi-finals of Roland Garros in one…
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Sabalenka Handles the Wind, Then Shnaider Becomes the Storm in Roland Garros Earthquake
Aryna Sabalenka could handle the conditions at first. Then the wind took over. In her mind. Then Diana Shnaider took over everything. That was the strange order of this Roland Garros quarter-final: control, irritation, collapse, shock. Sabalenka, the world No. 1 and the last obvious heavyweight left from the tournament’s original power group, led 6-3,…
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Amélie Mauresmo Says Clay-Court Technology Is Not Ready as Roland Garros Defends Human Calls
Roland Garros has a very modern problem wrapped inside its oldest surface. Clay leaves marks. Tennis now loves technology. Players want certainty. Fans want instant proof. And somewhere in the middle stands Amélie Mauresmo, trying to explain why the French Open is not yet ready to hand the whole thing over to machines. The Roland…
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Marta Kostyuk Keeps Her Clay Season Untouched and Dedicates Ukrainian Quarter-Final to Home
Marta Kostyuk has stopped looking like a player on a run and started looking like a weather system. The 23-year-old from Kyiv arrived in this French Open quarter-final unbeaten on clay this season, carrying titles, form and the strange calm that comes when winning has become the weekly routine. Across the net stood Elina Svitolina,…
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Mirra Andreeva Turns a Closed Roof Into a Trap and Leaves Sorana Cirstea With Three Games
The roof was closed. The air was heavier. The court should have offered Sorana Cirstea a few ways to make this awkward. Instead, Mirra Andreeva turned Court Philippe-Chatrier into a room with very little oxygen. Cirstea arrived in the French Open quarter-finals with one of the best runs of her season, still carrying the glow…
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Where Was the Clay Aryna? Sabalenka Brings New York to Paris and Throws It at Osaka
Where was the clay Aryna? Wrong person. Ask Amélie Mauresmo. The Roland Garros tournament director may have scheduled this on Paris clay, but Sabalenka played Osaka as if the court had been shipped in from New York. Apart from the opening game, when Osaka broke immediately and briefly hinted that this might become something complicated,…
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Maja Chwalinska Has Already Won a Champion’s Load of Matches in Paris
Maja Chwalinska can already keep one astonishing line for the rest of her life. Whatever happens from here, she has won seven matches at Roland Garros 2026. Three in qualifying. Four in the main draw. That is the same number of matches the eventual champion must win to lift the trophy on the final Saturday.…
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Madison Keys Runs Out of Answers as Diana Shnaider Blows the Last North American Out of Paris
Madison Keys is one of tennis’s great enigmas. Some days, the ball comes off her racket like it has been personally offended. Other days, the same power that can blast holes through a draw starts blasting holes through her own match. You watch her knowing something dramatic may happen. You just never quite know which…
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Anna Kalinskaya Survives Potapova Chaos and Finds a Clay-Court Quarter-Final She Was Never Supposed to Love
This was the match that could change a career. Not because Anastasia Potapova and Anna Kalinskaya were playing for a trophy yet, but because of what waited on the other side. With qualifier Maja Chwalińska and Diane Parry still alive in their part of the draw, this was not some abstract fourth-round opportunity. It was…
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Mirra Andreeva Answers Every Clay-Court Question as Teichmann Runs Out of Places to Hide
Slice at Mirra Andreeva, and she can slice back. Hit heavy, and she will try to hit heavier. Throw moonballs into the Paris sky, and she has enough topspin of her own to make the clay feel like a trampoline. That is the frightening part of Andreeva’s Roland Garros run now. She is not winning…
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Marta Kostyuk Boots Swiatek Out of Paris and Sets Up Ukrainian Firefight With Svitolina
Imagine saying this before Roland Garros: Maja Chwalińska would still be in the tournament halfway, but Iga Swiatek would not. That is the kind of sentence Paris usually reserves for fever dreams, but Marta Kostyuk made it real. The woman from Kyiv beat the four-time Roland Garros champion 7-5, 6-1, kept her unbeaten clay season…
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Coco Gauff Loses Her Grip in Paris as Anastasia Potapova Turns Chaos Into a Roland Garros Shock
Coco Gauff had this match by the throat more than once. She had dragged the first set back from 2-4 and taken it 6-4. She had watched Anastasia Potapova wobble badly while trying to close the second. She had a break lead in the third. She had chances again at 3-3 in the decider. This…
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Madison Keys Is the Last North American Woman Standing After Paris Wipes Out Jovic, Gauff, Anisimova and Mboko
Round Three turned into a North American clear-out. Coco Gauff went out. Amanda Anisimova went out. Peyton Stearns went out. Iva Jovic went out after pushing Naomi Osaka to three sets. Four of the five American women who reached the third round were gone before the fourth-round draw had properly settled. Then Canada lost its…
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Mboko vs. Keys, Roland Garros R16: Canada’s Teenage No. 9 Has a Date With American Firepower
PARIS — There are matchups that look good on paper, and then there are matchups that make you sit up straight and put down your croissant. Victoria Mboko against Madison Keys at Roland Garros 2026 is firmly in the second category — a collision of generations, playing styles, and trajectories that has no clean answer…
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Peyton Stearns Gets Swiss-Rolled at Roland Garros as Bencic Makes It Look Embarrassingly Easy
The American No. 78 arrived in Paris with dreams of a deep run. She leaves with 25 unforced errors, a 3-6, 3-6 scoreline, and some serious questions about her second serve. PARIS — If you were looking for an upset on Court Suzanne-Lenglen on the evening of May 29th, Peyton Stearns was not your girl.…
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Mirra Andreeva Keeps Her Clay-Court Engine Running as Bouzkova Finds No Way Through in Paris
Mirra Andreeva’s clay swing is beginning to look less like a run of good form and more like a young player settling into her natural habitat. The screenshot of her recent results tells the story neatly. Stuttgart, Madrid, Rome, Roland Garros: week after week, Andreeva has been stacking wins on clay, losing only to heavyweights…
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Swiatek Gets the Polish Duel She Needed as Linette Makes Her Work for Paris Fourth Round
An all-Polish match at Roland Garros is never just another line in the draw, especially when Iga Swiatek is involved. For Magda Linette, this was a chance to trouble the country’s standard-bearer on one of tennis’s biggest stages. For Swiatek, one of the tournament’s major title favourites, it was something more delicate: a match she…
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Coco Gauff Survives Mayar Sherif’s Clay-Court Trap as American Hopes Thin Out in Paris
Thirteen American women began the second round in Paris. By the time the third-round board had settled, only five were still there: Gauff, Iva Jovic, Madison Keys, Peyton Stearns and Amanda Anisimova. For one of the deepest national groups in the draw, that was a sharp cut. Gauff made sure she survived it, but Mayar…
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Qualifier Maja Chwalinska Breaks Through Again as Elise Mertens Falls Apart at Roland Garros
Maja Chwalinska came through qualifying and brought a broom with her. Zheng Qinwen got four games. Elise Mertens got four games. Both were handed second-set bagels. What began as a qualifier’s opening has turned into one of the sharpest raids of this Roland Garros draw. Chwalinska’s 6-4, 6-0 win over Mertens was not just a…
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Hailey Baptiste’s Father Rushes From Stands as Horror Roland Garros Injury Ends Breakout Clay Season
Hailey Baptiste had spent the clay season forcing people to learn to spell her name properly. Madrid had done most of the work. Beating Jasmine Paolini was one thing. Beating Belinda Bencic was another. Then came Aryna Sabalenka, world No. 1, and suddenly Baptiste was not just a dangerous draw-sheet name. A player who could…
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Starodubtseva Delivers Roland Garros Thunderclap as Rybakina Falls in Super Tie-Break
Elena Rybakina’s name still carries a particular echo in Paris. Before she became a Grand Slam champion, before she became world No. 2, before her game started to feel like one of the tour’s cleanest arguments for controlled violence, Roland Garros had already seen the first flash of her higher ceiling. It was here, against…
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Swiatek Moves On in Paris but Bejlek Made the Scoreline Look Cleaner Than the Match
Iga Swiatek is into the third round of Roland Garros, and the scoreboard will not scare anyone on her side of the draw. 6-2, 6-3. Straight sets. Job done. Another step forward in Paris. But this was not the same clean demolition she produced against Emerson Jones in the first round. Sara Bejlek did not…