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Majoli stuns Hingis to win French Open Top-ranked player suffers first loss of 1997

No. 9 seed Iva Majoli became the first Croatian to win a Grand Slam title Saturday.

PARIS — A teen-ager won the French Open women’s title - but it wasn’t 16-year-old Martina Hingis. In a tournament where upsets were the norm, it figured that Iva Majoli, 19, would pull off the biggest one of all. Majoli took Hingis apart in straight sets Saturday to become the lowest seeded Grand Slam women’s champion of the Open era and the first Croatian to win a Slam. The ninth seed, she swept Hingis 6-4, 6-2, snapping the Swiss star’s 1997 unbeaten streak at 40 matches and preventing her from winning a second consecutive Grand Slam title. “I played the match of my life,” said Majoli, who had never before advanced beyond a Grand Slam quarterfinal. “I was feeling I was in control the whole time.” Majoli’s upset was the latest twist in this most unpredictable of French Opens.

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