Every French Open Singles Champion Since 1968, and Who Has Won the Most

Most French Open titles: Nadal and Evert

Nadal won his 14 between 2005 and 2022, more than twice as many as Bjorn Borg's six, and Evert her seven between 1974 and 1986, one more than Steffi Graf. Since 1925, when the championships opened to players from abroad, 52 men and 54 women have won the title, 21 of the men and 20 of the women more than once.

Nadal also won five in a row from 2010 to 2014, the longest run in the tournament's history, and four in a row twice; Borg won four straight from 1978 to 1981. Since 1925 no woman has won more than three in a row, most recently Iga Swiatek, from 2022 to 2024.

French Open winners list: every champion since 1968

The Open Era began with the 1968 French Open, the first major open to professionals. Every champion matches the FFT's roll of honor.

The French Championships before 1968, and the club years

Until 1924 the championships were open only to members of French clubs: 29 men's editions from 1891 and 23 women's from 1897, all won by French players except the first, by H. Briggs, a Briton, in 1891. The FFT's roll includes them, but this article counts from 1925, as our Grand Slam records do. With the club years, Max Decugis's eight titles from 1903 to 1914 would rank second to Nadal's 14, Henri Cochet would have five instead of four and Suzanne Lenglen six instead of two, level with Graf.

French men won the first eight editions open to foreign players, four by Cochet and three by Rene Lacoste, until Jack Crawford of Australia in 1933, and Australian men won five of the six from 1962 to 1967. No tournament was held from 1915 to 1919 or in 1940, and the FFT does not count the wartime Tournoi de France of 1941 to 1945.

French Open winners by country

• Men: Spain has 24 titles since 1925, 22 of them since 1968, ahead of Australia and the United States with 11 each and France and Sweden with 10. Andre Agassi, in 1999, is the last American man to win, and Zverev the first German since Henner Henkel in 1937.
• Women: the United States has 30, 16 since 1968, ahead of Australia with nine, Great Britain with eight, and France and Germany with seven. Coco Gauff, in 2025, is the latest American; Andreeva, who plays without a flag, counts for no country.
• France: Yannick Noah, in 1983, is the last French man to win and Mary Pierce, in 2000, the last French woman. With the club years France would have 38 men's titles and 30 women's.

Clay-court specialists and all-court champions

In the Open Era no major has crowned more men who never won a major anywhere else. Of the 59 men's titles since 1968, 15, or 25 percent, went to players whose majors all came at Roland Garros: three to Gustavo Kuerten, two to Sergi Bruguera and one each to Andres Gimeno, Adriano Panatta, Noah, Michael Chang, Andres Gomez, Thomas Muster, Carlos Moya, Albert Costa, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Gaston Gaudio. The Australian and US Opens had eight such titles each, Wimbledon four.

Twelve of the 15 came in the 16 years from 1989 to 2004. Every men's champion since 2005 has also won a major elsewhere: Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka, Carlos Alcaraz and Zverev. Among women the gap is smaller, nine titles in Paris against eight, eight and seven at the other majors. Of the 19 players who have won all four majors, listed in our count of Grand Slam titles, eight completed the set in Paris, among them Agassi, Federer and Djokovic, more than at any other major.

Seeds and unseeded French Open champions

Since 1968 the men's No. 1 seed has won 16 of the 59 titles and the women's 22. The women's top seed won 15 of the 32 titles to 1999 but 7 of the 27 since, a period in which 13 women's champions came from outside the top four seeds; the men's has won 6 of 27 since 2000, the fewest of the four majors, as our analysis of top seeds shows. Nadal won three of his titles as the No. 1 seed and seven as the No. 2.

Six champions have been unseeded since 1968, more than at any other major: Mats Wilander in 1982, Kuerten in 1997, Gaudio in 2004, Jelena Ostapenko in 2017, Swiatek in 2020 and Barbora Krejcikova in 2021. The lowest seeds to win are Costa, 20th in 2002, and Francesca Schiavone, 17th in 2010.

First-time French Open champions

Since 2000, 18 of the 27 women's titles went to first-time champions in Paris, six in a row from 2016 to 2021, the longest such run since 1968, and 12 were the player's first major, Andreeva's the latest. First-time men's champions won 18 of the 32 titles from 1968 to 1999 but only 6 of the 22 since 2005, one for each man who has won it in that time.

Youngest and oldest French Open champions

• Youngest since 1968: Monica Seles, 16 in 1990, and Chang, 17 years and 109 days in 1989.
• Oldest since 1968: Djokovic, 36 years and 20 days in 2023, and Nadal, 36 years and 2 days in 2022; among women, Serena Williams, 33 in 2015.
• First titles: Gimeno, 34 in 1972, is the oldest first-time champion since 1968, and Schiavone, 29 in 2010, the oldest woman.
• 2026: Zverev was 29 and Andreeva 19; teenagers have won 12 women's titles since 1968, Andreeva's the latest, and five men's, the last Nadal's in 2005. The four majors are compared in our piece on Grand Slam champions' ages.

French Open finals: straight sets or five

Counting from the scores, 25 of the 59 men's finals since 1968, 42 percent, went in straight sets and 12, 20 percent, to a fifth set, while 24 of the 59 women's finals, 41 percent, went to a third. Every final since 1925 was played to a finish.

None of the 16 men's finals from 2005 to 2020 went to five sets; four of the last six have. Six of the nine men's major finals of the Open Era won from two sets down were in Paris: Borg in 1974, Ivan Lendl in 1984, Agassi in 1999, Gaudio in 2004, Djokovic in 2021 and Alcaraz in 2025, who beat Jannik Sinner 7-6 (10-2) in the final set. Graf's 6-0, 6-0 over Natasha Zvereva in 1988 is the only final since 1925 without a game for the loser.

The 2026 French Open finals

Zverev, the No. 2 seed, beat Flavio Cobolli, the 10th, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 on Sunday, June 7, in 4 hours and 16 minutes, according to the tournament's report. It was his 125th match win at the majors, the most by any player before a first title, the tournament noted, and he went on to win the US Open. The No. 1 seed, Sinner, lost in the second round to the unseeded Juan Manuel Cerundolo.

The day before, Andreeva, the eighth seed, beat Maja Chwalinska, a Polish qualifier ranked 114th, 6-3, 6-2 to become the youngest women's champion in Paris since Seles in 1992; Aryna Sabalenka, the No. 1 seed, had lost to Diana Shnaider in the quarterfinals. The FFT lists the 2027 tournament for May 17 to June 6, and results from the events in play are on the Vertize tennis scores page.

French Open winners: frequently asked questions

Who has won the most French Open titles? Rafael Nadal, with 14 men's titles from 2005 to 2022. Chris Evert holds the women's record with seven.

Who won the French Open in 2026? Alexander Zverev, who beat Flavio Cobolli, and Mirra Andreeva, who beat Maja Chwalinska.

Who was the last French player to win the French Open? Mary Pierce, in 2000. The last French man was Yannick Noah, in 1983.

Has an unseeded player won the French Open? Six times since 1968: Mats Wilander, Gustavo Kuerten, Gaston Gaudio, Jelena Ostapenko, Iga Swiatek and Barbora Krejcikova.

Who is the youngest French Open champion? Since 1968, Monica Seles, 16 in 1990. The youngest man is Michael Chang, 17 in 1989.

How this was built: every singles final of the French Championships and the French Open, 125 men's since 1891 and 119 women's since 1897, with the champion from the FFT's roll of honor and the runner-up, score and flag at the time from Wikipedia's lists of men's and women's champions, which agree on every champion. Seeds since 1968 come from the Wikipedia draw pages, checked against the WTA's records and, for men since 2000, the ATP's draws, which also match every score. Titles count as majors from 1925. Countries are the flag carried at the time, with West Germany counted as Germany and Czechoslovakia as the Czech Republic; the FFT lists four players under another country, among them Ivan Lendl and Seles as American. Ages are on the day of the final; other majors come from the champion lists. See also our methodology. Data collected through October 26, 2026.