Vote for your favourite Aussies at Roland Garros achievement
Sam Stosur, Rod Laver, Margaret Court or The Woodies – whose effort on the Roland Garros clay is your favourite?
Melbourne, 6 June 2012 | tennis.com.au
Sam Stosur, Rod Laver, Margaret Court or The Woodies – whose effort on the Roland Garros clay is your favourite?
In the lead-up to Roland Garros 2012 tennis.com.au featured 20 of the best Australian achievements at the French major. Now we want to know which of these highlights is your favourite.
And to refresh your memory, here’s the complete top 20 in chronological order.
Aussies at Roland Garros – the complete list
1933 Jack Crawford becomes the first Australian to win the Roland Garros men’s singles title
1951 Ken McGregor plays a marathon semifinal against South African Eric Sturgess
1958 Mervyn Rose wins the singles final while Ashley Cooper and Neale Fraser take the doubles
1960–1965 Roy Emerson features in six consecutive winning doubles duos
1962 Margaret Smith wins her first major on foreign soil
1962 Rod Laver wins the men’s singles title on his way to his first calendar year Grand Slam
1963–1965 Three in a row for mixed doubles pair Margaret Smith and Ken Fletcher
1964 Margaret Smith sweeps Roland Garros
1965 Lesley Turner is singles and doubles champion
1965–1969 Stolle, Roche, Emerson, Rosewall and Laver headline five years of dominance
1968 Ken Rosewall wins singles and doubles at the age of 33
1969 Rod Laver salutes in Paris on his way to his second Grand Slam
1970 Margaret Court wins the French Open on her way to a calendar year Grand Slam
1971 Evonne Goolagong wins the first of her seven singles majors
1973 Margaret Court wins her 13th French Open crown
2000 Mark Philippoussis stuns Pete Sampras in the first round
2000 The Woodies win on clay to complete their career Grand Slam
2010 Sam Stosur defeats three No.1s on her way to the final
2011 Casey Dellacqua wins her first Grand Slam title in Paris