French Open: Champions
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2026

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French Open Champions

Every name on the Coupe des Mousquetaires and the Coupe Suzanne-Lenglen since the Open Era began in 1968 — and the stories in the numbers. Not a list to read, a record to play with: pick any year and meet its two champions, or map six decades of clay-court titles by nation.

59
Open-Era editions, each with two singles crowns
14
most men’s titles — Rafael Nadal
7
most women’s titles — Chris Evert
24
nations have produced a singles champion
16
years old — the age of the youngest champion, Monica Seles (1990)
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years since a French champion (2000)

Pick any year

Who won each year?

The whole roll, one year at a time — slide, or step with the arrows, to any Open-Era year and meet its two champions. 2020 is here like any other year: the pandemic moved this tournament to the autumn rather than cancelling it.

2026

A global game

Champions by nation

BulgariaMyanmarBurundiBelarusCambodiaCameroonCanadaCentral African Rep.Sri LankaChadChileChinaTaiwanColombiaCongoDem. Rep. CongoCosta RicaCroatiaCubaCyprusCzechiaBeninDenmarkDominican Rep.EcuadorEl SalvadorEq. GuineaEthiopiaEritreaEstoniaFalkland Is.FijiFinlandFranceDjiboutiGabonGeorgiaGambiaPalestineGermanyGhanaGreeceGreenlandGuatemalaGuineaGuyanaHaitiHondurasHungaryIcelandIndiaIndonesiaIranIraqIrelandIsraelItalyCôte d'IvoireJamaicaJapanKazakhstanJordanKenyaNorth KoreaSouth KoreaKuwaitKyrgyzstanLaosLebanonLesothoLatviaLiberiaLibyaLithuaniaLuxembourgMadagascarMalawiMalaysiaMaliMauritaniaMexicoMongoliaMoldovaMontenegroMoroccoMozambiqueOmanNamibiaNepalNetherlandsNew CaledoniaVanuatuNew ZealandNicaraguaNigerNigeriaNorwayPakistanPanamaPapua New GuineaParaguayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalGuinea-BissauTimor-LestePuerto RicoQatarRomaniaRussiaRwandaSaudi ArabiaSenegalSerbiaSierra LeoneSlovakiaVietnamSloveniaSomaliaSouth AfricaZimbabweSpainS. SudanSudanW. SaharaSurinameeSwatiniSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTajikistanThailandTogoTrinidad and TobagoUnited Arab EmiratesTunisiaTurkeyTurkmenistanUgandaUkraineMacedoniaEgyptUnited KingdomTanzaniaUnited States of AmericaBurkina FasoUruguayUzbekistanVenezuelaYemenZambiaArgentinaBahamasBrazilBoliviaBelizeBotswanaAngolaAlgeriaBangladeshBhutanAfghanistanArmeniaAustriaAlbaniaBelgiumSolomon Is.AustraliaAzerbaijanBruneiKosovoBosnia and Herz.

Clay has the widest roll of the three: Brazil, Ecuador, China and Latvia have a champion here and nowhere else. Historical nations are shaded on their present-day territory — West Germany on Germany (Steffi Graf’s first two titles), Czechoslovakia on Czechia (Jan Kodeš, Ivan Lendl, Hana Mandlíková) alongside the Czech champions who followed it, and Yugoslavia on Serbia (Mima Jaušovec, and Monica Seles’ three). Mirra Andreeva competed under a neutral flag in 2026 and is counted for Russia, as Aryna Sabalenka is for Belarus.

Teenagers to thirty-somethings

Youngest & oldest

Champions bunch in their twenties, but the record-holders live in the tails.

16
Monica Seles
youngest champion, 1990
17
Michael Chang
youngest man, 1989
33
Serena Williams
oldest woman, 2015
36
Novak Djokovic
oldest man, 2023
162024283236Monica Seles, 16youngest ever, 1990Michael Chang, 17youngest man, 1989Novak Djokovic, 36oldest man, 2023Serena Williams, 33oldest woman, 2015
Men’s championsWomen’s champions

Clay is supposed to reward patience, and it has crowned teenagers anyway. Monica Seles was 16 in 1990 — still the youngest champion this tournament has had — and Michael Chang’s win the year before, at 17, makes him the youngest man ever to take any major. At the other end, Novak Djokovic in 2023 and Rafael Nadal in 2022 are the two oldest champions of the Open Era, in back-to-back years. Ages are at the final.

The good stuff

Records & oddities

The fourteen, the marathons, the comebacks, and the year it moved to September. Flip a card.

The fourteen
Rafael Nadal, 2005–2022
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No one has won any other major more than eight times. Nadal won this one fourteen times, starting on his first appearance at 19 and finishing at 36 — and he never lost a final here.
The longest streak
Rafael Nadal, 5 in a row
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Rafael Nadal won 5 straight titles — the longest consecutive run of the Open Era, and not even his longest stretch of dominance: he also took four in a row twice, on either side of it.
The oldest champion
Novak Djokovic, 2023
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36 years and 20 days — and the record had been set only twelve months earlier, by Nadal at 36 years and 2 days. The two oldest champions in this tournament’s history arrived back to back.
The youngest champion
Monica Seles, 1990
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16 years, 6 months and 5 days, beating Steffi Graf in straight sets. The year before, Michael Chang had won at 17 — still the youngest man to take any major, and he did it from two sets to one down in the final.
The longest final
Alcaraz d. Sinner, 2025
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Five hours 29 minutes, the longest final this tournament has had. Alcaraz saved three consecutive championship points in the fourth set, came back from two sets down, and won the first championship tie-break in Roland-Garros history 10–2.
The comeback
Gaudio d. Coria, 2004
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Gastón Gaudio lost the first two sets 0–6, 3–6, thought about walking off, and then saved two championship points at 5–6 in the fifth. He won 8–6, in the only all-Argentine final the tournament has staged.
The autumn tournament
2020
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Moved out of May into late September for the Covid-19 pandemic and played in front of a thousand spectators a day — the only time this tournament has been held in autumn. Moving it rather than cancelling it is why this roll runs one edition longer than Wimbledon’s over the same years.
The wooden racket
Yannick Noah, 1983
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The last Frenchman to win his own tournament, in his only major final — and the last man to win any major with a wooden racket. The counter at the top of this page has been running since Mary Pierce’s title seventeen years later.

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