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Business Standard
2 days ago
- Sport
- Business Standard
1968 to 2025: Full list of French Open women's singles winners & runner-ups
The women's singles event of the 62nd edition of the iconic tennis Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, came to a close with Coco Gauff winning their maiden clay-court title after defeating World number 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final of the French Open 2025 on Saturday, 7 June. The French Open, which was previously known as the French Championship before the start of the Open Era back in 1968, has been one of the most challenging titles to win among the tennis Grand Slam events. The USA's Chris Evert holds the record for the most title wins in the Open Era, with seven titles to her name, followed by Steffi Graf with six French Open wins. Iga Swiatek, who walked into the French Open 2025 as the defending champion, is joint third alongside Justine Henin with four titles. She had the chance to go clear but lost the semi-finals of the French Open 2025 to eventual runner-up Aryna Sabalenka. Apart from them, who else has been able to get their hands on the iconic women's singles titles of the French Open? Take a look. Full list of French Open women's singles winners and runner-ups Year Champion Runner-up 1968 Nancy Richey Ann Haydon Jones 1969 Margaret Court Ann Haydon Jones 1970 Margaret Court (2) Helga Niessen 1971 Evonne Goolagong Helen Gourlay 1972 Billie Jean King Evonne Goolagong 1973 Margaret Court (3) Chris Evert 1974 Chris Evert Olga Morozova 1975 Chris Evert (2) Martina Navratilova 1976 Sue Barker Renáta Tomanová 1977 Mima Jaušovec Florența Mihai 1978 Virginia Ruzici Mima Jaušovec 1979 Chris Evert (3) Wendy Turnbull 1980 Chris Evert (4) Virginia Ruzici 1981 Hana Mandlíková Sylvia Hanika 1982 Martina Navratilova Andrea Jaeger 1983 Chris Evert (5) Mima Jaušovec 1984 Martina Navratilova (2) Chris Evert 1985 Chris Evert (6) Martina Navratilova 1986 Chris Evert (7) Martina Navratilova 1987 Steffi Graf Martina Navratilova 1988 Steffi Graf (2) Natasha Zvereva 1989 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Steffi Graf 1990 Monica Seles Steffi Graf 1991 Monica Seles (2) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 1992 Monica Seles (3) Steffi Graf 1993 Steffi Graf (3) Mary Joe Fernández 1994 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2) Mary Pierce 1995 Steffi Graf (4) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 1996 Steffi Graf (5) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 1997 Iva Majoli Martina Hingis 1998 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (3) Monica Seles 1999 Steffi Graf (6) Martina Hingis 2000 Mary Pierce Conchita Martínez 2001 Jennifer Capriati Kim Clijsters 2002 Serena Williams Venus Williams 2003 Justine Henin Kim Clijsters 2004 Anastasia Myskina Elena Dementieva 2005 Justine Henin (2) Mary Pierce 2006 Justine Henin (3) Svetlana Kuznetsova 2007 Justine Henin (4) Ana Ivanovic 2008 Ana Ivanovic Dinara Safina 2009 Svetlana Kuznetsova Dinara Safina 2010 Francesca Schiavone Samantha Stosur 2011 Li Na Francesca Schiavone 2012 Maria Sharapova Sara Errani 2013 Serena Williams (2) Maria Sharapova 2014 Maria Sharapova (2) Simona Halep 2015 Serena Williams (3) Lucie Šafářová 2016 Garbiñe Muguruza Serena Williams 2017 Jeļena Ostapenko Simona Halep 2018 Simona Halep Sloane Stephens 2019 Ashleigh Barty Markéta Vondroušová 2020 Iga Świątek Sofia Kenin 2021 Barbora Krejčíková Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 2022 Iga Świątek (2) Coco Gauff 2023 Iga Świątek (3) Karolína Muchová 2024 Iga Świątek (4) Jasmine Paolini 2025 Coco Gauff Aryna Sabalenka
News18
14-05-2025
- Sport
- News18
Ligue 1: Jonathan David Announces LOSC Lille Departure
Published By : IANS Last Updated: The Canadian striker confirmed his exit from the Ligue 1 side on Wednesday amid interests from Juventus, Napoli, FC Barcelona and Newcastle. Canadian striker Jonathan David has announced his decision to leave Ligue 1 side LOSC Lille at the end of the season through an emotional post on Instagram. The 25-year-old will leave as a free agent upon the expiry of his contract. This decision follows after the striker has been linked with Serie A clubs Juventus and Napoli, while FC Barcelona and Newcastle are also interested. 'I wanted to tell you myself that after so many years at the club, it's finally time to say goodbye. I've had five wonderful seasons here, and I know it hasn't always been easy, but I hope that with my goals and my celebrations, I have managed to bring you some joy. Notably, the French Championship and the League championship trophy. I think that with these two trophies, we have brought a lot of pleasure and joy," said David in the video. David will be leaving LOSC five years after joining from KAA Gent for a 27 million Euro fee. Over the course of his stay at the French club, he has won a Ligue 1 title and a Trophee des Champions, whilst he has also netted 109 times in 231 games. This season, he has 25 goals in 48 games in all competitions. His last game for Les Dogues will be against Stade de Reims on Saturday. 'I would like to thank all of my teammates, all the coaches, the staff, the medical teams, and the managers. Everyone I have met and spent months with at the club, thank you very much for everything you have given me personally over the years. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 'And finally, to the supporters, I know I did not have the easiest start, but you have always been behind me. You have supported me through all the difficult times, and for that, I truly hold you in my heart. Thank you for all the beautiful moments we have shared. You were behind the team, behind me, encouraging us, allowing us to experience seasons like the ones we had. Thank you," he added. At just 25 years of age, David is already the top international goal scorer in Canada's history with 32 goals to his name, followed by Cyle Larin with 30 goals. (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed - IANS) Location : France First Published:
Hans India
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Hans India
Football: Jonathan David announces departure from LOSC Lille
Lille: Canadian striker Jonathan David has announced his decision to leave Ligue 1 side LOSC Lille at the end of the season through an emotional post on Instagram. The 25-year-old will leave as a free agent upon the expiry of his contract. This decision follows after the striker has been linked with Serie A clubs Juventus and Napoli, while FC Barcelona and Newcastle are also interested. 'I wanted to tell you myself that after so many years at the club, it's finally time to say goodbye. I've had five wonderful seasons here, and I know it hasn't always been easy, but I hope that with my goals and my celebrations, I have managed to bring you some joy. Notably, the French Championship and the League championship trophy. I think that with these two trophies, we have brought a lot of pleasure and joy,' said David in the video. David will be leaving LOSC five years after joining from KAA Gent for a 27 million Euro fee. Over the course of his stay at the French club, he has won a Ligue 1 title and a Trophee des Champions, whilst he has also netted 109 times in 231 games. This season, he has 25 goals in 48 games in all competitions. His last game for Les Dogues will be against Stade de Reims on Saturday. 'I would like to thank all of my teammates, all the coaches, the staff, the medical teams, and the managers. Everyone I have met and spent months with at the club, thank you very much for everything you have given me personally over the years. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 'And finally, to the supporters, I know I did not have the easiest start, but you have always been behind me. You have supported me through all the difficult times, and for that, I truly hold you in my heart. Thank you for all the beautiful moments we have shared. You were behind the team, behind me, encouraging us, allowing us to experience seasons like the ones we had. Thank you,' he added. At just 25 years of age, David is already the top international goal scorer in Canada's history with 32 goals to his name, followed by Cyle Larin with 30 goals.
Associated Press
14-03-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Former Australia rugby captain Rocky Elsom sentenced to 2 years in prison by French court
Former Australia rugby captain Rocky Elsom was sentenced to two years in prison by a French court on Friday for misusing corporate assets during his time as club president of Narbonne. He was also fined 100,000 euros ($109,000) with half the sum suspended. The 42-year-old Elsom did not appear in court. His whereabouts are unknown and a French arrest warrant has been issued against him. He played 75 times for Australia from 2005-11, earning a reputation as a standout flanker. Elsom was president of southern French club Narbonne from 2015-16. He went on trial for embezzling club funds by making unjustified expenditures to pay a coach or a general manager who was living in Australia at the time. He was acquitted on charges of forgery and use of forgery but was ordered to pay 230,000 euros in compensation to the club's liquidator. His lawyer Yann Le Bras appealed. During a trial last month, the prosecutor requested a three-year prison sentence and a fine of 630,000 euros ($687,000). Elsom's lawyer had pleaded for an acquittal. In a previous trial in October last year, Elsom was sentenced to five years in prison but did not attend the hearing. He has been the subject of an international arrest warrant since that conviction. As allowed by French law, Elsom requested to be retried with legal representation, but he did not appear in court last month. Fled Ireland Elsom was named man of the match when he won the 2009 European Cup with Dublin-based Irish club Leinster alongside Ireland greats Johnny Sexton and Brian O'Driscoll. He had been living in Ireland since August 2024 and fled the country after an international arrest warrant was issued against him. He denied any wrongdoing and said that under his leadership Narbonne was in a healthy position. '(Narbonne) achieved solid profits, had good sporting results, and remained in Pro D2 (the second tier of French rugby) until 2016 and beyond,' he said in a statement in October. 'It seems that I have been targeted as a scapegoat for the future mismanagement of this famous rugby club.' Narbonne won the French Championship twice in 1936 and 1979 and finished runner-up three times. The club went into liquidation in 2018 and now competes in the third-tier Fédérale league. Elsom had been working as a coach at a school in Dublin around the time of his arrest warrant. Elsom said in an interview four months ago on YouTube that he left immediately with only a single backpack when he found out that Ireland was legally obliged to extradite him to France. When he gave the interview to Mark Bouris from a hidden location, he said he had not been informed there was a public trial in October. 'This s a really important part of it. I didn't know a court case was on and there was no possible way for me to know,' he said. ___ ___
The Guardian
06-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Fred Stolle obituary
The Australian tennis player Fred Stolle, who has died aged 86, won the French Championship in 1965 and the US Championship in 1966, along with a hatful of doubles titles around the world. But he could never quite get over the line at Wimbledon, where he lost in three consecutive finals between 1963 and 1965. Typically, however, Stolle did not allow his frustrating failure to win Wimbledon to deter him from making the most of his ability as a world-class player, or to douse the huge enjoyment he derived from being one of the game's most popular personalities. He played in an era when, outside Wimbledon and a couple of other grand slams, the nocturnal hours were to be enjoyed as much as sunlit days on the courts of the world's most glamorous locations. This did not mean the players of his era were unfit. Far from it. Unlike today, practically every tournament insisted on matches that were best of five sets, and all the top singles stars automatically played doubles as well. The beer from the night before was simply removed from the system by punishing early morning runs and tough work on the practice court. Stolle's great Aussie friend Roy Emerson, who beat him at Wimbledon in the 1964 and 1965 finals, led the way in that department, with Stolle following closely behind. In retrospect, Stolle's success was largely forged out of two incidents that he rightly considered to be unfair and publicly embarrassing slights from the powers that governed the game before it professionalised in 1968. The first came when he was trying to make his mark as a Davis Cup player for Australia under the stern and demanding captaincy of Harry Hopman. He was the junior member of the team that beat Italy in the challenge round in 1961 and, as such, was ordered to go to the umpire's dinner after the victory. It was at the dinner that Hopman stood up and praised the other members of the squad, but offered the opinion that Stolle would never be good enough to make the grade. Stolle was crushed and humiliated, but Emerson, who had experienced his own problems with Hopman, tried to console his friend by telling him it was just the captain's way of seeing if he could take it. Intellectually, Stolle understood what Emerson was saying but, as he wrote in his autobiography, 'emotionally it was very difficult to listen to Harry Hopman tell the world I was not good enough'. Stolle had to live with that assessment until 1964, when Hopman pulled off a surprise by selecting him for the singles and doubles matches in a tough tie against Mexico in Mexico City. Although he lost to the brilliant Rafael Osuna on the first day, Stolle proved his worth by teaming up with Emerson to win a marathon doubles game then complete Australia's victory with a reverse singles win against Antonio Palafox. Proving he was, indeed, good enough, Stolle finished with a career Davis Cup record of 13 wins out of 16 singles and doubles matches. The second public slight came in 1966 when the seeding committee for the US Championships at Forest Hills in New York omitted him from the list of eight seeds. There were no computerised ranking lists in those days and a player's career was in the hands of faceless officials. Stolle, who had been playing well, was furious. Determined to prove the committee wrong, the lanky serve-and-volley expert cut a swathe through the draw on the slick grass, playing what he described as the best match of his life to beat Emerson 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in the semi-finals, and John Newcombe 4-6, 12-10, 6-3, 6-4 in the final. Although that triumph probably gave Stolle the greatest personal satisfaction, his surprise victory at the French Championship the previous year was undoubtedly his finest achievement. European clay was never the easiest surface for Australians, but Stolle stayed true to his attacking instincts to battle his way past a gaggle of Europeans before beating his fellow Australian Tony Roche 3-6, 6-0, 6-2, 6-3 in the final. In addition to his two grand slam singles titles, Stolle was one of the leading doubles experts of the 60s, winning three US men's doubles titles, two with Emerson and one with Ken Rosewall; three Australian, two with his original partner, Bob Hewitt, and one with Emerson; two French (Emerson and Rosewall) and two at Wimbledon with Hewitt. He also won seven mixed doubles titles, including Wimbledon with the British player Ann Jones in 1969, the year she won the singles title. Born in Hornsby, Sydney, Stolle benefited from the fact that in Australia – unlike many other countries in the world – tennis was a pastime for all classes. His father, Bill, was a labourer on the railways, but that did not stop him playing competitive doubles at the local club on Sunday mornings, and young Fred was soon joining in. Although Stolle quickly began winning local junior titles, his early progress did not quite warrant the corporate sponsorship offer that would have enabled him to play tennis almost full time. Instead he took a job at a bank and was lucky enough to choose one that had Cliff Sproule, a leading International Tennis Federation official, among its directors. Sproule eased Stolle's way on to the travelling tennis circuit, and as a bright and charming young man with a special Aussie line in sardonic humour, he never looked back. With his wife, Pat, and young family in tow, Stolle quickly took to life in the US and, once he turned pro, accepted a series of jobs as a tennis director at country clubs, beginning in Tucson, Arizona, and eventually settling at Turnberry Isle near Miami. For several years Stolle was also chief summariser on ESPN's tennis broadcasts, which were headed by one of his old rival players, Cliff Drysdale. It was with Drysdale that he set up Grand Slam Sports, a company offering corporate hospitality outings all over the US. The business's partners included such well-known names as Emerson, Rosewall, Marty Riessen, John Lloyd and Owen Davidson, who would offer their services. Most of them were capable speakers, none more so than Stolle himself, whose personality enabled him to 'roast' his guests and still retain their friendship and respect. He was made an officer of the Order of Australia in 2005. Stolle is survived by Pat and their children, Sandon (also a professional tennis player), Monique and Nadine. Frederick Sydney Stolle, tennis player, born 8 October 1938; died 5 March 2025
