FRENCH OPEN WINNERS WHO SAVED A MATCH POINT

MEN

Six: Rene Lacoste (1927, 2 in the final versus William Tilden), Gottfried Van Cramm (1934, 1 in the final versus Jack Crawford), Rod Laver (1962, 1 in the quarter-final versus Martin Mulligan), Adriano Panatta (1976, 1 in the first round versus Pavel Hutka), Gustavo Kuerten (2001, 1 in the round of 16 versus Michael Russell) and Gaston Gaudio (2004, 2 in the final versus Guillermo Coria).

WOMEN

Four: Margaret Osborne-Dupont (1946, 2 in the final versus Pauline Betz), Margaret Smith-Court (1962, 1 in the final versus Lesley Turner), Anastasia Myskina (2004, 1 in the round of 16 versus Svetlana Kuznetsova) and Justine Henin (2005, 2 in the round of 16 versus Svetlana Kuznetsova).