Top 10 French Open Moments
As the world's best players take on the fabled red clay of Roland Garros, TIME turns back the clock and recalls the best French Open matches of the past 30 years
Lendl/McEnroe 1984
Nineteen eighty-four was John McEnroe's "annus mirabilis" he went 82-3, a record not even Roger Federer has matched. But in his only appearance in a French Open final, a febrile McEnroe seemed to crave victory too much: after winning the first two sets easily, he became rattled by noise coming from the headset of a cameraman early in the third set and began to unravel. Ivan Lendl applied his characteristically unwavering ground strokes to win 3-6, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5 in a match that exposed the tragic flaw in McEnroe's genius.
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