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#4 Mats Wilander (3)
1982 was a monumental year in the history of French Open. The year witnessed, for the first time, an unseeded player win the crown.
Playing in what was only his third Grand Slam event, Mats Wilander, a 17-year-old unheralded player from Sweden shocked the tennis world and many giants of the game along the way to win his first Grand Slam title.
En route to his maiden French Open final in ’82, Wilander upset the likes of Ivan Lendl, Jose Luis Cleric among others. The biggest upset, however, he saved for the final showdown. Up against one of the greatest clay-courtiers in the game in Guillermo Vilas, Wilander took out the former in four sets, even handing him a bagel in the third.
Along with Lendl, Wilander dominated the French Open for most of the 1980s. In the years 1982-88, he won seven Grand Slam titles, three of them coming at Roland Garros. In ’88, he also became the first Swede to win the US Open.
Wilander also ascended to the apex of the World Rankings in September 1988, occupying the pedestal for 20 weeks. Wilander was one of the great masters on clay, winning as many as 20 titles on the surface.
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