5 Tennis Legends Who Never Won Roland Garros

#3 Stefan Edberg

A champion, who has to his CV, the great honour of coaching the tennis great, Roger Federer, who has 1 French Open to his name. Sad enough though, Edberg doesn’t have one to his own name.

Edberg was the only player till his time to have won the career grand slam in juniors, a feat that people saw him achieving in the men’s circuit as well. It wasn’t to be though since the French title was never seized by Edberg in men’s singles.

Edberg lost to Michael Chang in what is believed to be one of the greatest tennis matches ever for he played a very young Chang from the USA – who subsequently, upon winning the match (which was the French Open 1989 final) became the youngest grand slam winner ever.

Edberg, with 6 grand slams to his name, has often stated that he knew that he wasn’t a great clay court player but he still came back every year since he saw it as a great preparation to Wimbledon. Probably, it was this focus of his, set on Wimbledon, that seized to not yield his great results at Roland Garros.