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The 2016 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. ... The winners of both the men's and women's singles title received €2,000,000, an ...
Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray in the final, 3–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–4 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2016 French Open. It was his first French Open title and twelfth major title overall, completing the career Grand Slam and achieving a non-calendar year Grand Slam.
2016: Gustavo Fernández: Marjolein Buis: Yui Kamiji Jordanne Whiley 2017: ... List of French Open men's doubles champions; List of French Open women's doubles champions;
The French Open, also known as Roland-Garros, is an annual tennis tournament held over two weeks in May and June. Established in 1891 and played since 1928 on outdoor red clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, [1] the French Open is (since 1925) one of the four Grand Slam tournaments played each year, the other three being the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open.
The 2016 French Open Men's singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2016 French Open.A significant part of the Djokovic–Murray rivalry, it pitted the world's top two players, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, against each other in a Grand Slam final for the seventh time.
Garbiñe Muguruza defeated the defending champion Serena Williams in the final, 7–5, 6–4 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2016 French Open. It was her first major singles title, and she became the second Spaniard to win the title (after Arantxa Sánchez Vicario ). [ 1 ]
The French Open is played during two weeks in late May and early June, and has been chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the tennis season since 1987. The event was not held from 1915 to 1919 because of World War I , and after a one-year lapse in 1940, was unofficially held from 1941 to 1945 because of World War II ...
Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic defeated Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the final, 6–3, 2–6, 6–4 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the 2016 French Open. Garcia and Mladenovic became the first all-French pair to win the title since Gail Sherriff Chanfreau and Françoise Dürr in 1971, and the first of any ...