Tennis: 5 noteworthy players who never won the French Open

#2 Lindsay Davenport

Lindsay Davenport

Former World Number 1 Lindsay Davenport was America's top woman tennis athlete in the late 90's. She ascended to the top of the WTA rankings on 8 different occasions spending a total of 98 weeks at the summit.

She is one of five women to have finished the year as World Number 1 on 4 different occasions. Davenport was a serial Grand Slam winner winning 3 Singles Grand Slam titles and 3 Grand Slam Doubles titles.

Davenport also won the Gold Medal at the 1996 Atalanta Olympics and also won laurels for her country winning team events like the Fed Cup and Hopman Cup. Her best performance at Roland Garros was a semi-final finish in 1998. She presently serves as coach of Madison Keys.

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#1 John McEnroe

John McEnroe

American John McEnroe known for his volleying and attacking instincts close to the net was a mercurial personality who charmed the tennis audience in the 1980's with his firebrand display.

McEnroe is the only Men's player to have been ranked Number 1 in both Singles and Doubles in the Open Era. The Stanford University graduate entertained the tennis world with many memorable matches in the 1980's mostly with his great nemesis Bjorn Borg who was his polar opposite on court.

He was a 7-time Grand Slam Singles champion, 5-time Davis Cup winner and also established a successful Doubles partnership with fellow American Peter Fleming winning 57 Doubles titles together. McEnroe's record of 82 wins and just 3 losses in 1984 is the best win-loss record in a calendar year.

The American won 77 Singles titles and 78 Doubles titles in his career. He won the US Open 4 times and the Wimbledon Championships thrice but his best finish at the French Open was in 1984 where he finished runner-up to Ivan Lendl.

McEnroe, however, won the French Open in the Mixed Doubles category with fellow American Mary Carillo.