1987 French Open - Women's Singles
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Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

 was the defending champion, but she lost in the semifinals to World No. 1 Martina Navratilova.

World No. 2 Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

 defeated Navratilova, 6–4, 4–6, 8–6, in the final to win her first Grand Slam title.

This tournament also saw another first, with a Grand Slam debut from future World No. 1 and French Open Champion Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...

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Seeds

  1.   Martina Navratilova (Final)
  2.   Steffi Graf
    Steffi Graf
    Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

     (Champion)
  3.   Chris Evert
    Chris Evert
    Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

     (Semifinals)
  4.   Hana Mandlíková
    Hana Mandlíková
    Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...

     (Second Round)
  5.   Helena Suková
    Helena Suková
    Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

     (Fourth Round)
  6.   Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     (Quarterfinals)
  7.   Gabriela Sabatini
    Gabriela Sabatini
    Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...

     (Semifinals)
  8.   Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...

     (Quarterfinals)



  1.   Lori McNeil
    Lori McNeil
    Lori McNeil is an African American tennis coach and former professional tennis player from the United States. McNeil was a childhood friend of fellow African American pro Zina Garrison...

     (First Round)

  2.   Kathy Rinaldi
    Kathy Rinaldi
    Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel is a former professional American tennis player, who retired in September 1997. She won three singles and two doubles titles during her career on the WTA Tour, and reached the semifinals of the 1985 Wimbledon Championships.-Career:Rinaldi reached her highest career ranking on...

     (Third Round)

  3.   Catarina Lindqvist
    Catarina Lindqvist
    Anna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.-Career:Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of #10 in April 1985. She also won 6 WTA Tour singles titles and 1 doubles...

     (Second Round)

  4.   Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

     (Fourth round)

  5.   Mary Joe Fernandez
    Mary Joe Fernández
    Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...

     (Second Round)

  6.   Raffaella Reggi
    Raffaella Reggi
    Raffaella Reggi is a former professional tennis player from Italy, known for her fiery on-court personality, expressiveness and gesticulations....

     (Quarterfinals)

  7.   Sylvia Hanika
    Sylvia Hanika
    Sylvia Hanika is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is best remembered for finishing runner-up at the French Open in 1981, and for winning the Avon Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as No. 5 in the world and played left-handed.-Career:Hanika turned professional in 1977...

     (Fourth Round)

  8.   Melissa Gurney (First Round)


  9. Finals

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    Section 4

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    Section 8

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