No Serena, Justine, Kim, Venus, Maria, Svetlana, or Ana this time. The French Open champ this Saturday will be a first-time Grand Slam champ, the first time since Ana Ivanovic won the tournament in 2008.
Elena Dementieva, Jelena Jankovic, Francesca Schiavone, and Samantha Stosur. One of them will be the happiest of the 128 women who came into Roland Garros for the last week weeks.
While Stosur looks the heavy favorite with her defeats of Henin and Williams, but Dementieva and Jankovic are the two players who will be very hungry for their first slam. The Russian has been in two finals and the Serb has been in one.
Ironically, Jankovic has been ranked no. 1 but Dementieva never been up that far.
I would like to see Dementieva win because she is the "old" lady of the WTA Tour now at 28 and time is running out on her. She is not 18 anymore. Jankovic is still young and has plenty of time to win.
Stosur is 26 so I guess you could say the same thing for her. Dementieva needs to win this because she is one of the heavy hitters who just haven't been able to do it.