It will be a big Saturday for Italy and Australia this week Italian Francesca Schiavone goes up against Australian Samantha Stosur. While one country has had plenty of slam winners in the Open Era and before, the other has only a few.
Schiavone has never gone past a quarterfinal in her career, but it all changed this week. Stosur never made it through a semifinal of a slam, but that also changed this week.
The clay of Roland Garros is giving both of these ladies something to smile and remember probably for the rest of their lives. While only one will come out on top, the past two weeks will bring plenty of cheers for two countries who have not had a woman player who have managed to stay behind until the last Saturday of the two-week slam.