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French Open Champions
The following is a list of French Open champions in tennis: Champions † Not considered to be a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam event. A French club members only tournament. †† Disputed champions: Not considered to be a Grand Slam event. Not sanctioned or recognised by the French Tennis Federation, FFT. See Tournoi de France (tennis), Tournoi de France Senior Wheelchair Junior ‡ = a player who won both the junior and senior title.† = a player who won the junior title and reached the senior final. See also ;Lists of champions of specific events *List of French Open men's singles champions *List of French Open women's singles champions *List of French Open men's doubles champions *List of French Open women's doubles champions *List of French Open mixed doubles champions ;Other Grand Slam tournament champions *List of Australian Open champions *List of Wimbledon champions *List of US Open champions Notes References {{Grand Slam champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Open
The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tennis events every year, held after the Australian Open and before Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon and the US Open (tennis), US Open. It was established in 1891 but it did not become a Grand Slam event until 1925. The French Open begins in late May and continues for two weeks. The tournament and venue are named after the French aviator Roland Garros (aviator), Roland Garros. The French Open is the premier clay court championship in the world and the only Grand Slam tournament currently held on this Tennis surface, surface. Until 1975, the French Open was the only major tournament not played on Grass court, grass. Between the seven rounds needed for a championship, the clay surface characteristics (slower pace, higher bounce), and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Aymé
Paul Aymé (29 July 1869 in Marseille – 25 July 1962 in Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...) was a French tennis player Tennis career Paul Aymé is best remembered for winning the French Championship four straight years; 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1900. References * Bud Collins: ''Total Tennis – The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia'' (2003 Edition, ). External links * 19th-century French sportsmen 19th-century male tennis players French Championships (tennis) champions French male tennis players Tennis players from Marseille 1869 births 1962 deaths {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Matthey
Jeanne-Marie Matthey-Jonais (25 January 1886 – 24 November 1980) was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singles Championship four times in succession from 1909 to 1912, but lost the 1913 final to Marguerite Broquedis.French Open winners . Retrieved 13 September 2009. Matthey was born in , Egypt to a Swiss father and a French mother. The family moved to Paris, France in 1900 where she started playing tennis at the Racing Club de France. In July 1913 she won the singles even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wallet
Robert Wallet was a tennis player competing for France. Wallet finished runner-up to Max Decugis in the singles final of the Amateur French Championships The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam tennis events eve ... in 1907, but took the mixed doubles title at the tournament the same year, alongside A. Péan. Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (0-1) References French male tennis players Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adine Masson
Françoise Adine Masson was a French tennis player. She won the French Championships five times 1897–1899, 1902~1903 (a closed event). She was active from 1895 to 1913 and contested 30 singles finals, and won 19 titles. Career Masson was a active at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The daughter of Armand Masson, the founder of the Tennis Club de Paris,Lawn-tennis at Étretat Gallica 15 September 1898 page=144 :fr: La Vie au grand air in 1897 she became the first winner of the French Tennis Championship beating [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne De Pfeffel
Yvonne de Pfeffel (30 July 1883 – 1958) was a French tennis player in the first decade of the 20th century. Early life and ancestry Yvonne was born as the younger daughter of Baron Christian Hubert Theodor Marie Karl Pfeffel von Kriegelstein (1843–1922), son of Baron Karl Maximilian Friedrich Hubert Pfeffel von Krigenstein (1811–1890) and Karoline Adelheid Pauline von Rottenburg, natural daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg. Her mother was Hélène Arnous de Rivière (1862–1951), daughter of French chess champion Jules Arnous de Rivière and his wife Joséphine de Coulhac Mazérieux (1834–1921). She had an elder sister, Marie-Louise Pfeffel von Kriegelstein (1882–1944) who was the great-grandmother of Boris Johnson, a former British Prime Minister. Tennis career In 1907 she won the inaugural doubles title at the closed French Championships partnering Adine Masson. Together with Max Decugis she won the French mixed championships in 1905 and 1906. In the French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Gillou
Catherine Marie Blanche "Katie" Gillou (17 February 1887 – 1 January 1964) was a French tennis player in the first decade of the 20th century. Gillou won the French Women's Singles Championship in each of 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1908, having lost in the 1903 final to Adine Masson.French Open winners . Retrieved on 13 September 2009. Gillou's victories in 1906 and 1908 were achieved under her married name of Kate Gillou-Fenwick. It was thought that she competed in the mixed doubles event at the 1900 Summer Olympics
The 1900 Summer Olympics (), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad () and also known as Paris 1900, were an ...
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Maurice Germot
Maurice Germot (; 15 November 1882 – 6 August 1958) was a French tennis player and Olympic champion. He was twice an Olympic Gold medallist in doubles, partnering Max Decugis in 1906 Intercalated Games, 1906 and André Gobert in 1912 Summer Olympics, 1912, and a Silver medallist in singles in 1906."1912 Summer Olympics – Stockholm, Sweden – Tennis" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved 6 April 2008) Germot won the French Championships in 1905, 1906 and 1910, and was a finalist in 1908, 1909 and 1911. In major events, Germot reached the finals of the World Covered Court Championships, played on a wood court in Stockholm, Sweden in 1913, finishing runner-up to Tony Wilding, Anthony Wilding. He also reached the quarterfinals of the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Réginald Forbes
Réginald Arthur Villiers Forbes (18 November 1865 – 20 February 1952) was a British tennis player at the end of the 19th century. He won the French Open mixed doubles Championship with Yvonne Prévost in 1902 and 1903 when it was open only to French nationals or members of specific French clubs. He died in Dinard Dinard (; , ; Gallo: ''Dinard'') is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, Brittany, northwestern France. Dinard is on the Côte d'Émeraude of Brittany. Its beaches and mild climate make it a holiday destination, and this has resul .... References External links French Open mixed doubles winners 1865 births 1952 deaths British male tennis players French Championships (tennis) champions Place of birth missing 19th-century English sportsmen 20th-century English sportsmen English male tennis players English expatriate sportspeople in France People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of the University of Oxford 19th-century male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Prévost
Paule Marie Yvonne Prévost Boppe (8 June 1878 – 3 March 1942) was a French tennis player at the end of the 19th century. She won the French Women's Singles Championship in 1900.French Open winners Retrieved on 13 September 2009. At the in Paris, she won two silver medals. In the women's singles final she lost to Charlotte Cooper and in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Decugis
Maxime Omer Mathieu Decugis or Décugis (; 24 September 1882 – 6 September 1978) was a French tennis player. He won the French Championships eight times (a French club members-only tournament before 1925). He also won three Olympic medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics and the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, with a gold medal in the mixed doubles partnering Suzanne Lenglen. Life Decugis' father was a merchant at Les Halles, the company's name was ''Omer Décugis et fils'', however the accent mark on the é is missing from Max Decugis' birth certificate, and appears inconsistently in later English-speaking sources such as the Ayres' Almanacks edited by Arthur Wallis Myers, but apparently never in any French-speaking sources. The origin of the family name Décugis, spelled with accented é in an 1842 source, is "from Cuges-les-Pins." In 1905 he married Marie Flameng, the daughter of painter François Flameng, in Paris. After the death of Marie in 1969, Max married Suzanne Louise Duval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
