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French Open men's champions

Order by the year each man first won the French Open. You place all 33 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

French Open men's champions
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How to play the French Open men's champions timeline

Roland Garros champions fill this deck, and you place each man by the year of his first French Open singles title. A description under each name gives his nationality and a hint about his game. One champion begins on the timeline with the year in view. Place each new card into a gap; a correct pick reveals the year, while a wrong one still sends the player to his true place and costs one of three lives.

Clay has always rewarded patient baseliners, so a lot of the descriptions sound alike and you'll need to lean on what you know of each career. Some champions were one-time winners who never went far elsewhere, and those are the hardest cards. Repeat winners count only once, and a few great players won here only after years of trying, which pulls them later than their other titles.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 33 cards you might be dealt, with 5 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Ken Rosewall Australian who won amateur and open titles
  • Nicola Pietrangeli Italian two-time clay champion
  • Manuel Santana Spanish clay artist
  • Rod Laver Australian Grand Slam winner
  • Roy Emerson Australian multiple slam winner
  • Fred Stolle Australian finalist turned champion
  • Jan Kodes Czech clay specialist
  • Andres Gimeno Spanish veteran champion
  • Ilie Nastase Romanian shot-maker
  • Bjorn Borg Swedish clay king
  • Adriano Panatta Italian who beat Borg here
  • Guillermo Vilas Argentine clay grinder
  • Yannick Noah French home favorite
  • Ivan Lendl Czech-born baseliner
  • Michael Chang American youngest champion
  • Andres Gomez Ecuadorian left-hander
  • Jim Courier American baseliner
  • Thomas Muster Austrian left-handed grinder
  • Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russian all-courter
  • Gustavo Kuerten Brazilian with a one-handed backhand
  • Carlos Moya Spanish clay-courter
  • Andre Agassi American career slam holder
  • Albert Costa Spanish clay specialist
  • Gaston Gaudio Argentine surprise winner
  • Rafael Nadal Spanish clay master
  • Roger Federer Swiss completing career slam
  • Stan Wawrinka Swiss backhand specialist
  • Novak Djokovic Serbian completing career slam

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