Spanish tennis players who won Roland Garros in individual
Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario She was the first Spanish woman to win the individual Roland Garros tournament.
He did it in 1989, defeating in the final with only 17 years to Steffi Grafthat the previous year had become the first and only tennis player in history to complete the Golden Slam (win the four Grand Slam and Olympic gold titles) in a single season.
With that triumph, Sánchez-Vicario also became the youngest woman to win a Grand Slam tournament in the Open era, a title that a year later would snatch her Monica Seles… defeating her in the Roland Garros final.
-In total, the four -time Olympic medalist would play six individual finals of the France Open, with a balance of three victories (1989, 1994, 1998) and three losses (1991, 1995, 1996).
The second Spanish woman to win the individual tarm of Roland Garros was Garbiñe Muguruzawho lifted the Suzanne Lenglen Cup in 2016 defeating in the final a legend of tennis as Serena Williams.
The other Spanish who reached a Roland Garros final was Conchita MartínezGreat banner of Spanish female tennis of the nineties with Sánchez-Vicario. However, the triple Olympic medalist lost in the final of the year 2000 against the French Mary Pierce.
