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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Ana Ivanovic (2008)
One year after settling for runner-up honors at the 2007 French Open, Ana Ivanovic found herself back in the championship match at Roland Garros. This time, she wouldn't be denied the title. The Serb bested Dinara Safina in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, to claim the first Grand Slam title of her career.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Justine Henin (2007)
Justine Henin enters the 2008 French Open as the three-time defending champion. She outplayed Ana Ivanovic in a 6-1, 6-2 finals rout, matching Monica Seles' Open era record with her third straight French Open title. During that time Henin has been dominant at Roland Garros; she hasn't dropped a set since the 2005 French Open quarterfinals.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Justine Henin (2006)
For the first time since 1996 when Steffi Graf won back-to-back French Open titles, Roland Garros hosted a repeat champion. Justine Henin won the 2006 championship, topping Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets in the finals.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Justine Henin (2005)
Justine Henin was a perfect 24-0 on clay in 2005, a period during which she won her second French Open championship. Her title came with an easy 6-1, 6-1 victory over Mary Pierce.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Anastasia Myskina (2004)
In the first-ever all-Russian Grand Slam final, Anastasia Myskina captured the win over Elena Dementieva, becoming the first female Russian to win a Slam singles title.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Justine Henin (2003)
After watching the 1992 French Open final between Steffi Graf and Monica Seles, Justine Henin vowed to win the tournament. She first achieved that goal in 1997 as the juniors champion and then in 2003 with a convincing 6-0, 6-4 win over Kim Clijsters, the first Grand Slam championship of her career.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Serena Williams (2002)
Serena Williams achieved victory in the first and only French Open finals in which she appeared. She beat Venus Williams for the championship, the first of four straight Grand Slam finals in which she bested her sister.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Jennifer Capriati (2001)
A former French Open junior singles champion, Jennifer Capriati went 12 years before receiving another French Open trophy. In 2001 after getting steamrolled 6-1 in the first set by Kim Clijsters, Capriati engineered a dramatic comeback, taking the second set 6-4 before outlasting Clijsters 12-10 in the final set.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Mary Pierce (2000)
2000 was Mary Pierce’s most successful at the French Open. She topped Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5 in singles action, becoming the first French woman to win the French Open since 1967. She then paired up with Martina Hingis to claim the women’s doubles title as well.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Steffi Graf (1999)
As her career was ending, Steffi Graf’s last hurrah came at the 1999 French Open. After reaching her first Slam final in three years, she won the 22nd Grand Slam singles title of her career, beating No. 2 Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinals, No. 3 Monica Seles in the semifinals and No. 1 Martina Hingis in the finals.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (1998)
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario's fourth and final Grand Slam title came in 1998 at the tournament in which she enjoyed her most success -- the French Open. After Sanchez-Vicario had won the first set in a tiebreak, momentum shifted in her opponent's favor, as Monica Seles bageled her in the second. Sanchez-Vicario stormed back to take the third set, 6-2, and the title. ";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Iva Majoli (1997)
With a 37-match winning streak heading into the 1997 French Open finals, everyone expected 16-year-old Martina Hingis to capture the title. Instead, it was 19-year-old Iva Majoli who claimed her first and only Grand Slam title.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Steffi Graf (1996)
Steffi Graf had to battle against injuries in 1996 -- she missed the Australian Open for the second straight year -- but she was able to defend her French Open title. This time she overcame a stiff challenge from Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, taking the third set 10-8 for the championship.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Steffi Graf (1995)
Injuries kept Steffi Graf out of the Australian Open in 1995, but she recovered enough to play in that year’s French Open. Seeded second, she knocked off No. 1 seed Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in three sets in the finals, claiming the 16th singles Slam title of her career.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (1994)
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario's second win at Roland Garros came in the midst of her most successful year as a singles player, 1994. She got the best of Mary Pierce in the finals, completing her French Open run that year without losing a single set. In 1994 Sanchez-Vicario won seven other titles, including the U.S. Open.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Steffi Graf (1993)
After achieving the “Golden Slam” -- wins in all four Grand Slam singles events and in the Olympics -- Steffi Graf was the runner-up three times at the French Open. She hoisted the clay trophy again in 1993, beating Mary Joe Fernandez in the finals.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Monica Seles (1992)
With her signature grunt echoing through the courts of Roland Garros, Monica Seles won her third straight French Open title in 1992. She outlasted Steffi Graf 10-8 in the final set to capture the victory. Seles would miss the next three French Opens as a result of the stabbing she suffered at the hands of a rapid Graf fan.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Monica Seles (1991)
Defending champion Monica Seles proved she was worthy of her newly-earned No. 1 ranking with a relatively easy 6-3, 6-4 win over Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in the 1991 French Open finals. Seles lost just one set in the entire tournament.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Monica Seles (1990)
At 16 years and six months old, Monica Seles became the youngest-ever French Open champion after she shocked world No. 1 Steffi Graf in straight sets. It was the first of Seles’ nine Grand Slam singles titles.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (1989)
A 17-year-old in 1989 who had never before made it to the finals of a Grand Slam, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario -- now a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame -- surprised the field to become the youngest female champion ever at Roland Garros (a record that was broken the following year). Her win marked Steffi Graf's only Grand Slam defeat in two years.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Steffi Graf (1988)
In a career with many highlights -- including 22 Grand Slam singles titles and 107 singles titles overall -- 1988 stands out in Steffi Graf's career. By winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles she became the first and only singles player to claim a calendar-year Grand Slam across all three types of court surfaces, and her Olympic gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games gave her a Golden Slam. In the French Open finals, Graf needed just 32 minutes to rout Natalia Zvereva 6-0, 6-0. She lost just 20 games the entire tournament, an Open era record at Roland Garros.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Steffi Graf (1987)
After starting 1987 with six tournament wins, Steffi Graf continued her Tour breakthrough with her first Grand Slam win coming at that year’s French Open. She knocked off then-No. 1 Martina Navratilova in a hard-fought 6-4, 4-6, 8-6 battle.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Chris Evert (1986)
With her trademark two-handed backhand firing on all cylinders, 31-year-old Chris Evert won the last Grand Slam of her career, coming back from a set down against long-time rival Martina Navratilova to earn a 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory. At the end of her career, Evert had amassed a 72-6 overall record in singles at the French Open.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Chris Evert (1985)
Her win over Martina Navratilova after a hard-fought three-set battle earned Chris Evert more than just her sixth French Open championship. She also reclaimed the world’s No. 1 ranking in 1985 for a fifth and final time.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Martina Navratilova (1984)
Martina Navratilova’s loss in the quarterfinals of the 1983 French Open was her only singles defeat of the year, during which she recorded an 86-1 record. She made sure not to repeat that failure in 1984. Her win made her the defending champion at all four Grand Slams.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Chris Evert (1983)
The same year Chris Evert was elected for a second term as the president of the Women’s Tennis Association, she captured her fifth French Open championship, topping Mima Jausovec 6-1, 6-2.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Martina Navratilova (1982)
One of just three women to have achieved a career Grand Slam in singles, doubles and mixed doubles, Martina Navratilova captured her first French Open title in 1982. Her overall Grand Slam record was an impressive 18 singles, a record 31 women’s doubles and 10 mixed doubles titles.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Hana Mandlikova (1981)
In 1980, Chris Evert topped Hana Mandlikova in the semifinals of the French Open. In 1981, Mandlikova returned the favor, beating the two-time defending champion in straight sets in the semifinals. The fourth seed in the tournament, Mandlikova went on to win the championship, the second of her four Grand Slam titles.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Chris Evert (1980)
Chris Evert lost just two sets and five times kept her opponents from winning a single game in a set en route to defending her French Open title in 1980. She bested former champion Virginia Ruzici in the finals.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Chris Evert (1979)
After winning the championship in 1975, Chris Evert did not play in the French Open for three years. When she ended her hiatus from the event, it was as if no time had passed. She made quick work of Wendy Turnbull in the finals, dispatching her opponent 6-2, 6-0 for her third title at Roland Garros.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Virginia Ruzici (1978)
Virginia Ruzici knocked off defending champion Mima Jausovec in the 1978 French Open championship to win the singles title. Quickly switching from opponents to teammates, the two then teamed up to capture the French Open women's doubles title that year.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Mima Jausovec (1977)
The only Grand Slam where Mima Jausovec reached the finals was the French Open. Although she was the runner-up in 1978 and 1983, her only championship came in 1977 when she beat Florenta Mihai, 6-2, 6-7, 6-1.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Sue Barker (1976)
When Sue Barker topped Renata Tomanova in the finals of the 1976 French Open, it was the second time that year the Brit had beaten the Czech to take home a title (she also won the German Open). The championship was Barker's lone Grand Slam win. ";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Chris Evert (1975)
She dropped the first set, 2-6, against rival Martina Navratilova in the 1975 French Open finals, but Chris Evert then roared back to take the next two sets, 6-2, 6-1, and defend her title. Evert was the world's top-ranked tennis player at the time. ";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Chris Evert (1974)
After losing in the first Grand Slam final -- the 1973 French Open -- she ever reached, Chris Evert rebounded by winning that same tournament the following year for the first of her 18 singles Slam titles and a record seven titles on the clay of Roland Garros.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Margaret Smith Court (1973)
Between 1960 and 1975, Margaret Smith Court won a record 62 Grand Slam titles. That included five singles, four women’s doubles and four mixed doubles titles at the French Open. Her final singles win at Roland Garros came in 1973, when she rallied after losing the first set in a tiebreak to claim the championship. It was the second-to-last time she would reach a Grand Slam finals.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Billie Jean King (1972)
When Billie Jean King toppled defending champion Evonne Goolagong in the 1972 French Open, she earned a career Grand Slam. That same year King became the first tennis player and first female to be named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Evonne Goolagong (1971)
Evonne Goolagong became an international celebrity after taking home her first-ever Grand Slam win at the French Open in 1971. For her accomplishments that year, which also included a win at Wimbledon, she was honored as Australian of the Year and the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Margaret Smith Court (1970)
By 1970, Margaret Smith Court already had a career Grand Slam to her credit. In 1970, she achieved a calendar-year Grand Slam, winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles. She is just one of three women with this feat on their resume.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Margaret Smith Court (1969)
Already a two-time French Open champion after winning in both 1962 and 1964, Margaret Smith Court beat Ann Haydon-Jones in three sets to win again in 1969. It was one of three Slam singles tournaments Court won that year; she also added five doubles titles, including one in mixed doubles at Roland Garros.";
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spt_FrenchOpenpastchampions_women[i-1].body = "Nancy Richey (1968)
In the first women's French Open championship of the Open era, U.S. player Nancy Richey claimed her second and final Grand Slam title and first and only title at Roland Garros. She bested Ann Haydon-Jones, a two-time French Open champion, to win the title. ";
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