1986 French Open - Women's Singles
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Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

 defeated Martina Navratilova 2-6 6-3 6-3 in the final to win the Women's Singles title at the 1986 French Open
1986 French Open
The 1986 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Paris, France the event was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix and 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from May 26 through to June 8, 1986....

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See also:
1986 French Open - Men's Singles
1986 French Open - Men's Singles
Ivan Lendl defeated Mikael Pernfors 6-3 6-2 6-4 in the final to win the Men's Singles title at the 1986 French Open. See also:# Ivan Lendl # Mats Wilander # Boris Becker ...


Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

 is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.

  1.   Martina Navratilova (Finalist)
  2.   Chris Evert
    Chris Evert
    Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

     (Champion)
  3.   Steffi Graf
    Steffi Graf
    Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

     (Quarterfinalist)
  4.   Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...

     (Fourth Round)
  5.   Hana Mandliková
    Hana Mandlíková
    Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...

     (Semifinalist)
  6.   Helena Suková
    Helena Suková
    Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

     (Semifinalist)
  7.   Kathy Rinaldi
    Kathy Rinaldi
    Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel is a former professional American tennis player, who retired in September 1997. She won three singles and two doubles titles during her career on the WTA Tour, and reached the semifinals of the 1985 Wimbledon Championships.-Career:Rinaldi reached her highest career ranking on...

     (Quarterfinalist)
  8.   Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     (Third Round)



  1.   Gabriela Sabatini
    Gabriela Sabatini
    Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...

     (Fourth Round)

  2.   Zina Garrison
    Zina Garrison
    Zina Lynna Garrison is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games.-Career:An African-American...

     (Third Round)

  3.   Kathy Jordan
    Kathy Jordan
    Kathryn "Kathy" Jordan is a former American tennis player. During her career, she won 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 of them in women's doubles and 2 of them in mixed doubles...

     (First Round)

  4.   Catarina Lindqvist
    Catarina Lindqvist
    Anna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.-Career:Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of #10 in April 1985. She also won 6 WTA Tour singles titles and 1 doubles...

     (Fourth Round)

  5.   Carling Bassett (Quarterfinalist)

  6.   Andrea Temesvári
    Andrea Temesvari
    Andrea Temesvári is a former professional tennis player once ranked as high as World No. 7. She won the Italian Open at sixteen, but injuries later hampered her career. She received the Most Improved Player Award by WTA Tour and TENNIS Magazine in 1982. At the 1986 French Open she won the women's...

     (Second Round)

  7.   Anne White
    Anne White
    Anne White is a former professional United States tennis player from Charleston, West Virginia. She is most famous for wearing a white body suit at Wimbledon in 1985.-Early life:White attended John Adams Junior High School...

     (First Round)

  8.   Terry Phelps
    Terry Phelps
    Terry Phelps is a former professional women's tennis player who is best known for reaching the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1985. She reached No...

     (Third Round)


  9. Finals

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