3 seed Simona Halep in the French Open final, coming out of obscurity to become the first Latvian to win a Grand Slam event and the first unseeded player to win the Roland Garros title in the open era. The last time anyone won their first-ever tournament title at the French Open was June 8, 1997, when Gustavo Kuerten won the men’s championship. Jelena Ostapenko & Martina Navratilova (1978 Wimbledon) are the only women in Open Era to win 1st Grand Slam from down a set in the Final. With the win, Ostapenko will move up 35 spots to No. Halep, who also lost in the 2014 French Open final and still has yet to win a Grand Slam, will move from No.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2017 15:29 UTC