Garbine Muguruza : 5 facts about the 2016 French Open winner

She had a very early start

Muguruza enrolled in a Barcelona tennis academy aged 6

Muguruza first picked up a racquet at only three years old, when she still lived with her family in Venezuela. The player and her two brothers would live there for a further three years, following which they moved back to Spain.

That was when Muguruza began her training, on the surface Spanish players go down as being most comfortable with; clay. She enrolled at the Bruguera Tennis Academy in Barcelona at the age of six, and going into the 2016 French Open went on record to say she was ‘looking forward’ to the tournament ‘because it is on clay.’

Several legends, among them Billie Jean King, have described Muguruza's win as a ‘changing of the guard’ in women’s tennis.