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This provides a lot of challenge to the participants as the clay courts tend to slow the ball pace and give extra bounce to the ball.So altogether a different strategy is put into Frenche. The 1985 French Open Tennis Tournament was one such event to be conducted in this court. This tournament was named after a hero of World War I. He was a pilot.
The 1985 French Open Tennis Tournament Statistics
The 1985 French Open Tennis Tournament featured the events of Men Singles, Women Singles, Men Doubles, Women Doubles and Mixed Doubles. In the Men Singles category Mats Wilander made a comeback and defeated top seed Ivan Lendll. The score line was 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. In the Women Singles category Chris Evert won the title defeating the previous year champion Martina Navratilova by 6-3, 6-7, 7-5. In the Men Doubles category Mark Edmondson and Kim Warwick won the title by defeating Scholmo Glickstein and Hans Simonsson by 6-3, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3. In the Women Doubles the duo Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver again repeated the history by winning the title. The defeated Claudia Kohde Kilsch and Helena Sukova by a score line of 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. In the Mixed Doubles category Martina Navratilova and Heinz Gunthardt won the title by defeating Paula Smith and Francisco Gonzalez by 2-6.
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